On Thursday, February 03, 2011 02:36:40 pm roger peppe wrote:
> On 3 February 2011 11:45, dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > read(open("/foo")) returns byte stream under entry `foo' in the root
> > object.
> >
> > readdir("/foo") returns `bar' (and possibly others) -- entries in
> > hierarchical section of object `/foo'.
>
> there's no distinction between readdir and read in plan 9.
Forgot about that. Still, you can't chdir() into an inode that doesn't
indicate being a directory. And the bytestream returned by
read(SOME_DIRECTORY) is fixed-format and doesn't provide any space for free-
form bytestream.
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dexen deVries
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> how does a C compiler get to be that big? what is all that code doing?
iterators, string objects, and a full set of C macros that ensure
boundary conditions and improve interfaces.
ron minnich, in response to Charles Forsyth
http://9fans.net/archive/2011/02/90
