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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:53:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry
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>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.