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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:53:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e53d7e1a9419d9d2d41ce6b7cb96b158@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB135559-F223-473E-84AF-850ADCD32CE0@sun.com>

>pipe would return -1 (and set a error condition) and the
>applications were paying attention (and I'm pretty sure all
>applications on Plan 9 would do a reasonable thing when
>presented with -1 from a write).

they only notice when the write occurs. suppose that takes
several minutes of computation.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18 18:39 Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-07-19  1:06 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19  9:30   ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-19 20:32     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-07-19 21:01       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-20  4:49         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-07-20  9:53           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2009-07-20 17:01             ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-20 18:38               ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-19 21:11     ` Mechiel Lukkien
2009-07-19 21:55       ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-20  4:52         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-07-20  5:21           ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 16:53             ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-21  1:01               ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-21  2:04                 ` Russ Cox
2009-07-21  2:15                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-23 12:15                     ` roger peppe
2009-07-20  9:52           ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-20 17:14             ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-07-19 20:06   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-07-19 20:22     ` erik quanstrom

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