Re: understanding 9grid and clustering?

"boyd, rounin" <boyd-Ic1ggjWUKI8eIZ0/[email protected]> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:36:46 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.nine-grid
Message-ID <021101c4dcb5$a931a1d0$963edfd5@SOMA>
> How bad would mmap() be?

ever heard the story when they hacked up mmap()?

    echo | cat

broke, 'cos it's a bit tricky to mmap() a pipe.

mmap() is for people who can't use read() and/or write().