On Mar 25, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
much like the old trick of storing a byte in a pipe and using it as an interprocess lock.
It's a brilliant trick. It let us write some very portable code (to windows, too, no less) with almost no effort. Don't knock inginuity. (Or insanity. But that's just labels ...)
--lyndon
