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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:35:57 +0200
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From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
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2015-08-10 16:22 GMT+02:00 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:

> on plan 9 systems 0 writes are not discarded.
>
Interesting! Is this "by design"?
And what is the intended usage of 0 writes?

BTW, so fcall(2) is misleading, a 0 read can not be used to identify an
EOF, right?


Giacomo

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<div dir=3D"ltr">2015-08-10 16:22 GMT+02:00 erik quanstrom <span dir=3D"ltr=
">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:quanstro@quanstro.net" target=3D"_blank">quanstro@q=
uanstro.net</a>&gt;</span>:<br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gma=
il_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bord=
er-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir=3D"ltr">on plan 9 systems 0=
 writes are not discarded.</p></blockquote><div>Interesting! Is this &quot;=
by design&quot;? <br>And what is the intended usage of 0 writes?<br><br></d=
iv><div>BTW, so fcall(2) is misleading, a 0 read can not be used to identif=
y an EOF, right?<br><br><br></div><div>Giacomo<br></div></div></div></div>

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