From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f0490603301129x786756e8n20b6b17d8a4cb9fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:29:36 -0800 From: "Rob Pike" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <34f4aaa16338144f1f76f071652aac8d@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e60603301115n238a39abka1e01d3dd2fd6de0@mail.gmail.com> <34f4aaa16338144f1f76f071652aac8d@terzarima.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 27fd43a4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Also, ioctl masks the direction of data motion, while read and write make it was explicit as can be. -rob