From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] read9pmsg usage
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:18:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHL7psFgFgMHigExpdq323MEcuJodPrU_L4tspTDSVRhkg8tJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANUoZoFpRp4ZLXT4iQ5n+dJqqeBy1DMX1mhcoHooHpTb-NAMTg@mail.gmail.com>
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2015-08-12 9:25 GMT+02:00 David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>:
> This comment is indeed pretty old. It was already present
> in the Second Edition.
>
So that check is based on pre 9p2000 code? If so, Charles have probably
explained it:
2015-08-10 17:40 GMT+02:00 Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>:
> As a further historical note, originally 9P required a stream that
> preseved record boundaries, and the reliable datagram protocol IL/IP and
> pipes did that.
>
So, seem that ignoring zeros is simply wrong. A residual from the past...
Giacomo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-10 14:11 Giacomo Tesio
2015-08-10 14:22 ` erik quanstrom
2015-08-10 14:35 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-08-10 14:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-08-10 15:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-08-10 20:17 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-08-10 20:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-08-11 15:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-08-12 0:21 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-08-12 7:25 ` David du Colombier
2015-08-12 9:18 ` Giacomo Tesio [this message]
2015-08-12 17:17 ` Charles Forsyth
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