From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9b73a2f7842fdf54ca57423261c7ae78@brasstown.quanstro.net> <201109081504.36357.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:18:16 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd5685e1d591104ac713f67 Subject: Re: [9fans] 9ttp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bfeca04-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd5685e1d591104ac713f67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:59 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Floren wrote: > > > I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to > > efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one > > program (fcp) does that. > > > > Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My > > investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read > > things. > > So, John, you don't think it's reasonable to rewrite every program a > la fcp? How unreasonable of you :-) > > ron > > "Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger..." --000e0cd5685e1d591104ac713f67 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:59 AM, ron minn= ich <rminnich@gm= ail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:

> I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to > efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one
> program (fcp) does that.
>
> Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My
> investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read
> things.

So, John, you don't think it's reasonable to rewrite every pr= ogram a
la fcp? How unreasonable of you :-)

ron

"Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger..= ." --000e0cd5685e1d591104ac713f67--