From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:18:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: Giacomo Tesio To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bb04fbe524538051d19b415 Subject: Re: [9fans] read9pmsg usage Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6662bbc6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7bb04fbe524538051d19b415 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 : > 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 --047d7bb04fbe524538051d19b415 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
2015= -08-12 9:25 GMT+02:00 David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>:<= br>
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@gma= il.com>:
As a further historical note, originally 9P required a stream that=20 preseved record boundaries, and the reliable datagram protocol IL/IP and pipes did that.

So, seem that ignorin= g zeros is simply wrong. A residual from the past...


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Giacomo
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