From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Streaming 9P is out
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:42:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=ExqHbTkYKFc3wq=pyrWJYbsLzCcU79CPGgTxY@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7667f336f8ad5ad9b10d8612d6014c7b@gandalf.orthanc.ca>
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>> thinking about it... why not just let stream() fail and let the program
>> decide if it makes sense to continue without it?
>
> Exactly what I was thinking. If the program requires the semantics of
> stream(), it should be able to reliably discover when they aren't
> available.
I prefer John's approach. It's a trivial change and doesn't require
most programmers to think too hard. Bear in mind that if you don't
want to use John's functions, you don't have to: all those decisions
are made at library level. Streaming is available whether or not you
use his "client" functions.
But rather than talk this to death, the best bet is to try it out and
see. A good first cut is to pick a bunch of programs, mod them to use
streams, and we can see which approach makes the most sense. Learn By
Doing.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-09 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 7:24 John Floren
2011-01-08 10:45 ` Seed
2011-01-08 13:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-01-08 15:16 ` David Leimbach
2011-01-09 0:31 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-01-09 0:46 ` John Floren
2011-01-09 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-09 1:53 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-01-09 2:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-01-09 2:42 ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-01-09 1:58 ` cinap_lenrek
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