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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:27:49 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline
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beware that Brdline gives you a pointer to stuff that might change
when you do another Bio act.  it has bitten me.  use or save!

brucee

On 1/16/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> >Is there any reason why Brdline, bio(2) returns void * instead of char *
>
> perhaps to allow it to be assigned to char* or uchar*