From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:37:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTintSPugG8W7Rs5s-=rsxzgOjaVwn6LNjoAwGnrk@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=vHTs2D7EfVOj=wu6_mKbmZT7_Fs_ZTR0btsny@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:23 PM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>>
>> since plan 9 assumes that strings are null-terminated but
>> 9p has explicit rle, one could send uids/errorno after the 0,
>> but before the rle says the string is done.
>>
>> sleezy, and hackish, but it should work.
>>
>
> FWIW I think this is a horrible idea.
I agree. This kind of trickery just comes back to bite you at some
point. We just learned this with .u, do we need to do it all over
again and regret it in 6 years?
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 21:13 erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 3:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 17:41 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-09 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 0:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 1:49 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-10 6:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 14:31 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 3:35 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 5:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 5:46 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:03 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:19 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 6:25 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 9:07 ` EBo
2010-11-12 15:12 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-12 15:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 15:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 15:55 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 16:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 19:55 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 20:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 20:31 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:37 ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-11-12 20:30 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:41 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:15 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 22:20 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:36 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-13 8:31 ` tlaronde
2010-11-13 23:42 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-11-14 22:49 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-11-15 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 17:40 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-11-15 17:50 ` John Floren
2010-11-12 21:12 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-09 18:08 ` yy
2010-11-09 19:17 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-09 19:27 ` Russ Cox
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