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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] seeking for the truth
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:10:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b0e18fccc88be0e8caa3fc420ffa7be@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040214224735.GA25517@bio.cse.psu.edu>

> I'm not sure I like getting rid of it;  I feel like buffers ought to
> have a cheap way to ask how full they are.

stat is no cheaper than read.

and since we have fd2path, it's not too difficult to work out where to
find the information (for /net at any rate), even if you only have a
file descriptor.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 18:19 David Presotto
2004-02-12 18:30 ` rog
2004-02-12 18:27   ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 20:30   ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-14 22:47 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-02-16 20:10   ` rog [this message]
2004-02-17  4:47     ` boyd, rounin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-12 19:00 David Presotto
2004-02-12 14:35 [9fans] Strange boot behaviour David Presotto
2004-02-12 16:16 ` [9fans] seeking for the truth rog
2004-02-12 16:32   ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 17:10     ` rog
2004-02-12 16:50   ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-12 16:59     ` Rob Pike
2004-02-12 17:03       ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-12 17:17         ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 17:22           ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 18:00             ` rob pike, esq.
2004-02-12 18:05               ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 18:10               ` rog
2004-02-12 18:10                 ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 17:26           ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-12 17:35           ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-12 20:19   ` boyd, rounin

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