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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:04 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> reflection of Linux VFS operations into 9P is often a strange and
> interesting experience.


Wish I could find Lucho's email on this, but the Linux guys
particularly don't like things like clone files; "Our scripts will
read them and cause trouble" is the basic complaint.

Bringing some of these new ideas to older OSes will hit some
incompatibilities that can't be fixed ...

ron