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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@noo...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: fd2path
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:57:52 +0100

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> 
> Boyd Roberts wrote:
> > In the last case you could loop on calling malloc until
> > you got the whole thing.
> 
> Um, you really think that is a good design?

yeah doug, whatcha gonna do when yer char buf[1024]; just ain't
big enough, huh?  upgrade to 5.n BSD?

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