24 Feb
2018
24 Feb
'18
9:33 p.m.
Many years ago (when the dinosaurs were using V6), I had a crazy idea[*]
that a write(fd, 0, NULL) would somehow signal EOF to the reader i.e. a
subsequent read would wait for further data instead of ENOTOBACCO.
Did any *nix ever implement that? I have no idea how it would be done.
[*]
I was full of crazy ideas then, such as extending stty() to an arbitrary
device and was told by the anti-CSU mob that it was a stupid idea...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
24 Feb
24 Feb
11:13 p.m.
Unix pipes are not allowed in non-smoking areas.
-----Original Message-----
Many years ago (when the dinosaurs were using V6), I had a crazy idea[*]
that a write(fd, 0, NULL) would somehow signal EOF to the reader i.e. a
subsequent read would wait for further data instead of ENOTOBACCO.
11:42 p.m.
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:13:02 -0500 "Ron Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com>
wrote:
Ron Natalie writes:
Unix pipes are not allowed in non-smoking areas.
-----Original Message-----
Many years ago (when the dinosaurs were using V6), I had a crazy idea[*]
that a write(fd, 0, NULL) would somehow signal EOF to the reader i.e. a
subsequent read would wait for further data instead of ENOTOBACCO.
pipe, ch(e)root.... Any more unix connections to smoking?
11:46 p.m.
> pipe, ch(e)root.... Any more unix connections to
smoking?
How about ash, one of the Bourne-family shells?
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11:46 p.m.
Bakul Shah writes:
pipe, ch(e)root.... Any more unix connections to smoking?
Well, I don't have any more smoking connections but since we're so off topic,
an old Laugh-In gag always pops into my head when I'm thinking about networking.
It make be a communications endpoint to you but it's a socket to me.
Jon
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