From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:51:13 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file In-Reply-To: <13426df10711080842v2a47ebc6jfdb17390dab185e8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1d8207a7813237f3f1241e0c5a274228@coraid.com> <13426df10711080842v2a47ebc6jfdb17390dab185e8@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: efd76d86-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > this requires byte reordering (on intel) sorry to be pedantic, but 9p uses little-endian integers so it's the big-endian machines that need to do byte reordering.