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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:37:06 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9
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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