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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:32:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] new usb stack and implicit timeouts
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> >  isn't it easier to set
> > up time timeout at the beginning?
>
> Not if you use normal read/write to talk to usb endpoints (which
> seems to me a Good Thing).  Normal read/write system call doesn't
> have a timeout argument.

do you mean "normal read/write" vs. an rpc protocol, say, like
/dev/sdXX/raw?

- erik