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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:01:08 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code
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> the first classic example i encountered of this was when i sent a
> "reboot" message through such a connection.  the kernel rebooted
> immediately (not sending the reply), and as soon as the server came
> back up again, it resent the request, causing another reboot, and on
> and on.

works as documented!  ;-)

> oh yes, here's another one for the pot:
> change screen resolution dynamically.

i made this work once, but in the aborted
plan9port for windows.  it's not too hard.
if someone wants to go after it i can dig up
the code i was using.

russ