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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] read/write offset hack
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:04:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53983e83ba1f0dc16c26a5eec48d4b84@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530150111.BF5B51E8C4D@holo.morphisms.net>

Very well explained. I've seen this question come up lots of times
when introducing fs-based interfaces to people. When we had some
off-shore devs to bring up to speed, they kept coming back to it: "so
can we just define a protocol to put all these streams in one file?". I
tried to explaing that having them as distinct files *was* that
protocol, but it never stuck. I wish I'd had this explanation then.
Anthony




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-30  8:43 Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30  9:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-30  9:32   ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30  9:45   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-30 10:10     ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30 11:09     ` Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30 11:28       ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30 10:53 ` roger peppe
2008-05-30 15:01 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-30 16:50   ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-30 19:04   ` a [this message]
2008-05-30 19:22     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-05-30 16:20 ` ron minnich
2008-06-02  8:53 ` Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30 15:15 erik quanstrom
2008-05-30 15:27 ` roger peppe
2008-05-30 16:09 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-30 15:35 erik quanstrom
2008-05-30 16:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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