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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: _[9fans]_libdraw_α_differ ences_between_plan_9__and_p9p
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:13:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <823aebaeb0cf7b8e0392dada3d55c5ca@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180603311403o517faed6qb0901d1ce46c2376@mail.gmail.com>

>> the answer is i didn't understand that there was a bug in the draw
>> library; i was not sure if there was a little hidden magic on plan9 that
>> made that work

if a function call behaves differently between plan 9 and p9p
for no obvious & documented reason, that's always a bug.

the new drawterm works around this by turning off most of
the X optimizations.  i got tired of working around the early
OS X X server.

russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-31 18:52 erik quanstrom
2006-03-31 22:03 ` _[9fans]_libdraw_α_differences_between_plan_9__and_p9p andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-31 22:13   ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-31 23:06     ` quanstro
2006-03-31 22:51       ` Re:__[9fans]_libdraw_α_differ_ences_between_plan_9__and_p9p Charles Forsyth

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