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From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:11:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40611201411o35a3f282kf10d4bcf5f4d7bc1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0611201355g2b4a91ffo22b2b66c4a8af5ab@mail.gmail.com>

> Changing devpipe is very different from defining that a zero-length write
> system call gets dropped from the kernel (which it sounds like you
> are proposing).  That would definitely be a mistake.

You mean, it would be a mistake because there are programs that depend on it,
and there is no big reason to change the current behaviour, right?


I don´t see why that would be a mistake, and you seem to be pretty sure about
that. I´m just try to see why you are so sure.
Writing nothing always seemed weird to me.

thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-20  8:40 arisawa
2006-11-20  9:45 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 10:42   ` lucio
2006-11-20 17:35     ` maht
2006-11-20 12:46 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 14:41   ` John Stalker
2006-11-20 14:59     ` Dave Lukes
2006-11-20 14:59     ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-20 15:34       ` ron minnich
2006-11-20 15:43       ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 16:37   ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 18:49     ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 19:16       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 19:57         ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 20:18           ` Federico Benavento
2006-11-20 20:38           ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 21:00             ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 21:05             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 21:55               ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 22:11                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2006-11-20 22:24                   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 23:14                   ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-20 23:22                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 23:57                       ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-21  3:24               ` lucio
2006-11-20 19:32       ` Joel Salomon

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