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Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
From: "G. David Butler" <gdb@dbSystems.com>
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:30:00 -0700
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No, I did NOT pay him to say this! :)


"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote:
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>rob pike wrote:
>> This is all a legacy of Unix's model that create means two different
>> things in the two situations.
>
>Well, there you go -- an attempt to create an existing file should
>fail.  That is a simpler and more useful property.
>