From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: echo -n
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:32:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b8ca08e65a47af482e25d1b764043bd@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10611201832m7ce46730pf61df2e78d544e14@mail.gmail.com>
> This whole discussion has been coming up for years. I can't remember
> the first time I saw it but it was definitely over a quarter century
> ago.
Indeed. 7th edition and earlier did ignore 0-length
writes. 8th edition streams began to transmit them
over pipes (or networks). I recall there were two
problems associated with this; one I forget, the other
was that nroff (for some input) would sometimes
generate one for no good reason, so
nroff thing.ms | whatever
would terminate prematurely. It was simplest to
fix nroff.
Dennis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 19:06 [9fans] v9fs mounting in linux Paul Lalonde
2006-11-20 19:15 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 22:35 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-11-21 0:27 ` ron minnich
2006-11-21 1:16 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-11-21 2:36 ` ron minnich
2006-11-21 2:42 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-11-21 2:49 ` ron minnich
2006-11-21 3:00 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-21 3:17 ` [9fans] read of eof Michael Baldwin
2006-11-21 6:38 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-11-21 1:23 ` [9fans] Re: echo -n arisawa
2006-11-21 2:32 ` ron minnich
2006-11-21 17:36 ` Andrew Lynch
2006-11-21 17:35 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-11-21 18:13 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-21 18:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-11-21 18:31 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-21 18:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-11-22 1:32 ` dmr [this message]
2006-11-24 4:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-11-24 16:24 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-11-21 9:01 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-11-21 15:23 ` Dave Lukes
2006-11-21 15:37 ` ron minnich
2006-11-21 15:54 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-21 16:35 ` Brantley Coile
2006-11-21 16:49 ` Bakul Shah
2006-11-24 4:06 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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