From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1381313165a5f22aeb8498f958cd7513@hamnavoe.com> References: <8ccc8ba40907190430x4254dc49l5c41c0e47b4587c@mail.gmail.com> <1381313165a5f22aeb8498f958cd7513@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:56:23 +0200 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40907190456r470b0c6fs67a4118606aa6f61@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] new usb stack and implicit timeouts Topicbox-Message-UUID: 271ff950-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > There's already a general way to time out any read/write operation > alarm() and notify(). =C2=A0Why add a special case option for one particu= lar > type of file? =C2=A0I would say just remove it. > You're right. I'll do so.