From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:23:50 +0000 From: Roman Shaposhnick vugluskr@unicorn.math.spbu.ru Subject: [9fans] Re: 9p question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f14a670-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <20000310092350.yzY86HHJbPhwSXWmxCsr7C2lVEAnrMQUgBNyBvt6FRo@z> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:27:19 GMT, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: >>>I definitely can not understand why openness is persistent property in the >>>sense that when I clone the open fid the copy happens to be open too. > >clone(5) notes that ``The fid [to be cloned]... must not have been >opened for I/O by an open or create message''. Well, I certainly can read man page. I ask why there is such limitation, not where and how it is described. Sorry, but I would like to discuss bare 9P ( see my previous letter ). Thanks, Roman.