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Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2009 13:59:11 -0800
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?
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On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 16:41 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> there's also nothing preventing one from implementing a
> filtering fs that restricts the directories available in /proc.

True. But there are two problems with a filtering fs:
  1. Accessing #p would bypass the fs 100%
  2. For things like #s the need to proxy the actual data
     back and forth seems to be really unfortunate.

Thanks,
Roman.