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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:10:22 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] new usb stack and implicit timeouts
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> I am unsure I would remove timeouts even from bulk endpoints.
> It is true that some devices (the usb/serial for example) need to
> read for an undefined time waiting for data, but I don't think that is
> an issue as long
> as the timeouts are long enough,

Please show us the algorithm that *correctly* determines 'long enough' for
every application talking to the devices.