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From: Caerwyn B Jones <cjones83@csc.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"
Date: Mon,  4 Oct 2004 08:33:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFABD56533.20176270-ON85256F23.0044BDA5@csc.com> (raw)






> I once saw a cgi that implemented recursive calls to a function by
invoking the
> cgi (itself) via an http request for the URL corresponding to it.

I implemented a fileserver that opened/read/write files that it was serving
itself
using the system calls.
I suppose this is folly. But is it called recursion?

-Caerwyn



             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-04 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 12:33 Caerwyn B Jones [this message]
2004-10-04 12:39 ` Russ Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-04 14:13 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-10-01 14:03 Sam
2004-10-01 13:19 ` rog
2004-10-01 13:56   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:45     ` rog
2004-10-01 14:42       ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:51         ` Axel Belinfante
2004-10-01 14:58           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:18             ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-01 16:27               ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-02 22:28                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-02 22:55                   ` George Michaelson
2004-10-02 23:22                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:54         ` rog
2004-10-01 16:59           ` Richard Miller
2004-10-01 15:01     ` Russ Cox
2004-10-01 14:49   ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Axel Belinfante
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:59       ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 15:07         ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:16       ` rog
2004-10-01 15:24         ` boyd, rounin

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