On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:53 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >pipe would return -1 (and set a error condition) and the > >applications were paying attention (and I'm pretty sure all > >applications on Plan 9 would do a reasonable thing when > >presented with -1 from a write). > > they only notice when the write occurs. suppose that takes > several minutes of computation.
Just to correct the statement of fact: same as true for the note -- it only gets sent when the write occurs. Thus -- there's no difference, really. Thanks, Roman.
