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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:09:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years
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> plan 9 and inferno rely quite heavily on having flush,
> and it's sometimes notable when servers don't implement it.
> for instance, inferno's file2chan provides no facility
> for flush notification, and wm/sh uses file2chan; thus if you
> kill a process that's reading from wm/sh's /dev/cons,
> the read goes ahead anyway, and a line of input is lost
> (you might have seen this if you ever used os(1)).

isn't the race still there, just with a smaller window of
oppertunity?

- erik