From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: some Plan9 related ideas
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:14:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0510170814k2249bf52wbd3b02529768d450@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051017132208.GC29494@server4.lensbuddy.com>
> "We added two (library) calls readf and writef that perform file I/O
> besides resolving the name. We found ourselves calling them a lot, because
> in many cases it's very convenient. They would be
> an opportunity to "batch" walk/open/read(s)/clunk, which happen
> a lot. However, this would require changing the kernel (even more than we
> did for Plan B)."
Well once you've changed the protocol to accomodate some
form of batching, changes are good you'll have to change
the kernel to use it.
Russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-17 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 23:23 [9fans] " Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2005-08-30 12:27 ` Sape Mullender
2005-08-30 15:21 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2005-08-30 15:25 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2005-08-30 17:07 ` [9fans] " Dave Eckhardt
2005-08-30 17:33 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2005-08-30 17:46 ` Russ Cox
2005-08-31 5:54 ` [9fans] tcs bug arisawa
2005-08-31 5:57 ` Rob Pike
2005-10-17 7:14 ` [9fans] Re: some Plan9 related ideas Uriel
2005-10-17 11:23 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-17 12:45 ` Uriel
2005-10-17 13:03 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-17 13:22 ` Uriel
2005-10-17 15:14 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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