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Magic numbers

Magic numbers

Posted May 1, 2012 18:34 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Magic numbers by mjt
Parent article: Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI

with the new packetized interface if you read 300 bytes, the other 4 bytes are forever lost, so the next read will get the correct packet boundary.


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