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* Re: [9fans] namepad
@ 2003-02-03 18:53 David Presotto
  2003-02-03 19:01 ` Sam
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Presotto @ 2003-02-03 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

>What was the original intention of the namepad
>field in the Cw struct?
>
>/sys/src/fs/dev/cw.c:1342 is the only line that
>references it with the comment, `force room.'

Looks to me a way ken assures that he can always
append a /<name> on the end of the name field
without thinking too hard about it.


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* Re: [9fans] namepad
  2003-02-03 18:53 [9fans] namepad David Presotto
@ 2003-02-03 19:01 ` Sam
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sam @ 2003-02-03 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

ooooh, i see.

clever bugger.

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> >What was the original intention of the namepad
> >field in the Cw struct?
> >
> >/sys/src/fs/dev/cw.c:1342 is the only line that
> >references it with the comment, `force room.'
>
> Looks to me a way ken assures that he can always
> append a /<name> on the end of the name field
> without thinking too hard about it.
>



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* [9fans] namepad
@ 2003-02-03 18:32 Sam
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sam @ 2003-02-03 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

What was the original intention of the namepad
field in the Cw struct?

/sys/src/fs/dev/cw.c:1342 is the only line that
references it with the comment, `force room.'

Sam



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