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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:14:57 -0400
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
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> "We added two (library) calls readf and writef that perform file I/O
> besides resolving the name. We found ourselves calling them a lot, becaus=
e
> 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