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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:57:52 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> ioctl(fd, SETVOLUME, &vol); is more comfortable.

no typechecking. no distribution. who defines all those constants?

i could have said:
	echo volume 56 > /dev/bootchime/ctl
how comfortable is your ioctl then?