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Re: implementing bash's magic
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Niels Möller |
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Re: implementing bash's magic |
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19 Oct 2002 01:47:53 +0200 |
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> Now, it seems to be rather easy to me to implement the retry magic for tcp
> and udp in glibc/hurd/lookup-retry.c as well.
Is there any reason you need to use the magic retry mechanism for
this? The point of magic is to implement things that depends on
context in the caller's process, typically in glibc. But /dev/udp and
/dev/tcp could be plain translators in the filesystem, as far as I can
see.
/Niels