From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 20:05:33 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <56e84e4da0c51aa763f72a62670de813@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Streaming 9P is out Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9253a766-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > This ought to work, but I wanted to establish a difference between > regular fds, which you can read and write and seek and all that > goodness, and streams, which are for reading OR writing sequentially. i'm not sure why one would want this. there are already fds on which must be read or written sequentially. they're called pipes. - erik