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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: John Kodis <kodis@tux.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:51:34 +0000
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In article <85139cb0363c3b2b1f14746d68b9ff59@plan9.bell-labs.com>,
David Presotto wrote:

>  Not to mention the fact that you have to send/receive on sockets
>  and read/write on everything else so that an app has to check
>  the type of any handles it is passed so that it can use the
>  right calls.

Nor to mention the fact that you have to pclose on process streams and
fclose on everything else so that an app has to check the type of any
streams it is passed so that it can use the right calls.