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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:33:37 +1100
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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bio(2) and ORDWR
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I believe in those Old Endearing Charms.

Contact me off list and I'll explain it.

brucee

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:12 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wro=
te:
> On Fri Nov 13 20:13:20 EST 2009, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
>> bio(2) doesn't support files opened for read+write; =A0Looking
>> at the implementation I don't see why it couldn't.
>>
>> Was this excluded for a particular reason?
>
> cf. /sys/src/cmd/upas/common/libsys.c:^/sysopen
> i believe presotto wrote both upas and bio.
>
> - erik
>
>