From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] seeking for the truth
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:32:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e54505a5f5b525346a7fae69f8c59873@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5c2faa793073123b8b36f533115f295@vitanuova.com>
> seeking, and many programs that require files that are seekable (diff
> being the age-old example).
except diff doesn't seek the files it is comparing, only its temps...
> surely a better solution is possible? in general, a fileserver knows
> whether its files are seekable or not, because it determines how to
> interpret the seek offset.
Fixing all the programs that seek without checking might also be nice.
> why not add a new bit to the file attributes, say DMNOSEEK (and
> associated QTNOSEEK)? if set, it would indicate that file offsets
> when reading and writing the file will be ignored. 0x2 seems to be
> available.
Maybe, need a few days to think about it. I'm vaguely disturbed by it
but don't know why. Perhaps because 9p2000 has no concept of seek and
having a bit that talks about it seems odd. Then again that's true of the
exec permission bit also...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-12 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 13:48 [9fans] Strange boot behaviour Lucio De Re
2004-02-12 14:35 ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 16:16 ` [9fans] seeking for the truth rog
2004-02-12 16:32 ` David Presotto [this message]
2004-02-12 17:10 ` rog
2004-02-12 16:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-12 16:59 ` Rob Pike
2004-02-12 17:03 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-12 17:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 17:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 18:00 ` rob pike, esq.
2004-02-12 18:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-12 18:10 ` rog
2004-02-12 18:10 ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 17:26 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-12 17:35 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-12 20:19 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-13 6:15 ` [9fans] Strange boot behaviour Lucio De Re
2004-02-13 12:58 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-14 21:49 ` David Presotto
2004-02-16 5:52 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-16 6:39 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-16 9:22 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-17 15:20 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-12 18:19 [9fans] seeking for the truth David Presotto
2004-02-12 18:30 ` rog
2004-02-12 18:27 ` David Presotto
2004-02-12 20:30 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-14 22:47 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-02-16 20:10 ` rog
2004-02-17 4:47 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-12 19:00 David Presotto
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