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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@noos.fr>
To: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: fd2path
Date: Thu,  6 Jul 2000 07:57:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39642DF0.F51183B9@noos.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <395F031A.DCDEE0C@null.net>

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> 
> Boyd Roberts wrote:
> > In the last case you could loop on calling malloc until
> > you got the whole thing.
> 
> Um, you really think that is a good design?

yeah doug, whatcha gonna do when yer char buf[1024]; just ain't
big enough, huh?  upgrade to 5.n BSD?

-- 
    But I doubt if our present system [U.S. Army] will produce such
    an individual.  They are too: _abrasive_, opinionated, undiplomatic,
    nonconformist, and effective.
    
        -- Colonel David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, Ret.)


  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-06  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-30 13:02 [9fans] fd2path Boyd Roberts
2000-07-03  9:36 ` [9fans] fd2path Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-06  6:57   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-07-06 15:11     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-07  1:27       ` Boyd Roberts

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