From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44e997e179c114d5d75e0b4b5fd0ed5a@mightycheese.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields? From: "rob pike, esq." In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 10:13:37 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e9275516-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Just curious, but why isn't data in Rread and Twrite > a variable length field with a two-byte count? Count was > two bytes in 2nd Ed 9P; what was the motivating push > for four bytes? 65536 is not a very big number in modern i/o systems. -rob