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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:43:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe822636d74283943e12150387ca88c8@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611201459.kAKExL908680@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>

on unix this doesn't matter as much.  on plan 9, write boundaries were supposed to
be respected.

- erik
On Mon Nov 20 10:08:20 EST 2006, Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl wrote:
> > UNIX variants seem to vary (yes, I know, that's why they are called
> > variants) in their behaviour.  On FreeBSD and NetBSD echo -n | wc
> > produces 0 0 0, agreeing with my intuition and the plan9 behaviour.
> > On Solaris, on the other hand, echo -n | wc produces 1 1 3.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-20  8:40 arisawa
2006-11-20  9:45 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 10:42   ` lucio
2006-11-20 17:35     ` maht
2006-11-20 12:46 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 14:41   ` John Stalker
2006-11-20 14:59     ` Dave Lukes
2006-11-20 14:59     ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-20 15:34       ` ron minnich
2006-11-20 15:43       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-11-20 16:37   ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 18:49     ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 19:16       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 19:57         ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 20:18           ` Federico Benavento
2006-11-20 20:38           ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 21:00             ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 21:05             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 21:55               ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 22:11                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 22:24                   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 23:14                   ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-20 23:22                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 23:57                       ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-21  3:24               ` lucio
2006-11-20 19:32       ` Joel Salomon

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