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Re: merging 1.11 with 1.10h9

To: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
Subject: Re: merging 1.11 with 1.10h9
From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 20:12:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
In-reply-to: <199408250006.RAA28505@netcom6.netcom.com> from "Eric R. Smith" at Aug 24, 94 05:06:40 pm
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

> (2) I am absolutely opposed to changing the behaviour of Fcreate() of
> pipes and ptys (i.e. creating an existing pipe or pty should always fail).
> This behaviour has been constant in every version of MiNT, and many existing
> applications rely on it.

I actually like to be able to do "cat > /dev/tty".

Perhaps the Fcreate() behaviour can be selected dependant from the
process domain?
(For now, I've made this a compile time option in my sources.)

Michael
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- Re: merging 1.11 with 1.10h9
  - From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)

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