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Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2011 10:17:47 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:

> No. The discussion was not absurd.
> And no, Ron's summary was not a summary.


Well, I'm not so sure, because the original motivation was this: "I'm
trying to write an Acme client in rc(1).  I'd like to avoid spawning
a new read(1) process every time I make a keystroke or click the mouse."

This seemed to be the starting point.

I'm not that worried, quite \relax'ed in fact, I just find the whole
thing kind of ... well ... I'm at a loss for words :-)

ron