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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question.
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:01:34 -0400
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> are these 10 depricated calls used anywhere? if i'm
> reading things right, they're all from the switch to
> 9p2000 (mm, plus ERRSTR change?), so i gather not.
> does any plan exist for removing these?

Some ancient binaries we have still contain them.
They do not appear in the libraries.

> and on the same topic, were write9p and read9p
> eliminated because they were considered redundant
> with pwrite and pread?

They became unnecessary because of the encapsulation
possible with thew new 9P, not because of pread and
pwrite.

> and, out of curiosity, were there ever syscalls for
> slots 48 and 49? if so, what'd they do?

I believe a summer student had something planned
there.

-rob