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" :)
>
>
next prev parent 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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