From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130904180910j18466647w788a802022a05f82@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaafc130904172257g57bae1apbcff37de5461a604@mail.gmail.com> <052277c2fbf7baa6266ec16b1b8d253d@quanstro.net> <3aaafc130904180910j18466647w788a802022a05f82@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:20:37 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10904180920u3036597bvbe83a1d099b75532@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6430e54-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > I agree that generally only one process will be accessing a "normal" > file at once. I think an editor is not a good example, as you say. > I'll say it again. It does not matter what we think. It matters what apps do. And some apps have multiple processes accessing one file. As to the wisdom of such access, there are many opinions :-) You really can not just rule things out because reasonable people don't do them. Unreasonable people write apps too. ron