From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:25:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [TUHS] EOF on pipes? In-Reply-To: <1519519996.29346.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1519519996.29346.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: > If a stream was marked as using delimeters (and pipes always > were), a delimeter was inserted after every write(2). So > write(2) generated an empty message, and read(2) returned it. And this lived on in the IL network protocol. I've always thought that was one of the more elegant aspects of IL, but of course it didn't have a hope in hell of surviving outside the Plan 9 ecosystem. --lyndon