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Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 21:38:03 -0800
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm dies when my mac book sleeps by 9p design?
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On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:51:34 EST erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  wrote:
> back to the problem at hand, lets suppose that the mac doesn't
> generate keep alive traffic, and lets suppose that plan 9 doesn't either,
> it's going to be hard to come up with a drawterm setup that is useful and
> has no programs that walk /dev by doing things like calling time().

That's why I said disabling tcp keepalives won't help if the
higher level protocol can generate packets while the link is
be down. Either change the protocol (to limp along in an
"offline" mode -- get time() locally?) or retry connecting or
live with what is there.