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Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon,  8 Jul 2002 16:22:06 -0400
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> changing open(2), execve(2), etc. is
> a requirement if we want a fundamental solution to the problem. 

Fundamental solutions should be applied only to fundamental problems.
This is not a fundamental problem; far from it.  The means should be
proportionate to the ends.

> > Don't you think that changing open, considering '/' in names, and
> > similar stuff is just too much? 

Yes, it is, because to do so contradicts too many conventions that are
integral to the system.

-rob