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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:01:31 -0600
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> Not to mention the fact that you have to send/receive on sockets
> and read/write on everything else so that an app has to check
> the type of any handles it is passed so that it can use the
> right calls.

and if memory serves, sendto/recvfrom won't work on tcp sockets (they do
on *bsd)  so you not only need to have exact knowledge of it being a
socket, and what type of socket it is.

W32 is in many ways the evil counterexample to Plan 9.

ron