From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:03:33 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
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Oh really? What if fd is a channel to a device on
a machine with a different byte order or a different
int size? Who does the conversion, how do they know?

It might be comfortable, but so is lounging in a big
enough pile of shite. Smelly, though.

On Thu Mar 30 12:52:02 EST 2006, 20h@r-36.net wrote:
> Good evening.
>
> Am Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:41:28 +0100 schrieb rog@vitanuova.com:
>
> > > >> with names such as
> > > >> kAudioHardwarePropertyBootChimeVolumeRangeDecibels,
> > >
> > > Do you prefer kAHPBCVRD?
> >
> > i'd prefer:
> >
> > 	fprint(ctlfd, "volume %d", vol);
> >
>
> ioctl(fd, SETVOLUME, &vol); is more comfortable.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph