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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2009 00:57:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920903031557p1627833dk24b971efa4b552f2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180903031545u1022edcladfbce0708480f83@mail.gmail.com>

"Unix never says 'please'"

Nor is it supposed to keep users from doing stupid things... thank
God, or I could not use it.

uriel

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or perhaps, since the user went to trouble of making sure the file
>> didn't exist and then creating the empty file, the compiler and linker
>> felt it would be rude if they didn't do something with it?
>
> you can call Plan 9 whatever you'd like, but don't call it "impolite" :)
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 20:03 Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 22:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:29   ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 23:37     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:41       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-03 23:45         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:57           ` Uriel [this message]
2009-03-03 23:43     ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-03 23:52       ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-04 11:56         ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-04 15:54       ` Juan Céspedes
2009-03-04 12:25     ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-04  2:16 ` Federico G. Benavento

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