On Fri Mar 16 13:37:36 EDT 2012, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why was I puzzled: because as a non Plan9 user / developer, I > > usually think of the underlaying transport technology (be it sockets > > or 9p) as a stream of bytes without explicit framing. > > Even outside Plan 9, this is not always the case. > UDP, IP, ethernet, Unix datagram sockets, email, HTTP. > They're all message-based protocols.
of course inside plan 9, pipes are repect write boundaries, too. - erik
