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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)
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Date: Mon,  8 Oct 2001 17:24:15 -0400
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> i thought overlayfs was supposed to do something like this?
> maybe it never worked...

geoff got stitch mostly working before he
left, but i haven't gone back to it. 
stitch is rather heavy weight for something
that you probably want in every person's
namespace.  (for instance, you probably want
	stitch -a /rc/bin /bin
	stitch -a /$objtype/bin /bin
so that you can do away with /$objtype/bin/ape/psh).

i'm convinced the kernel should do it,
but the implementation is hard.  however, once 
you have it working, you could write an nfafs
to replace libregexp: just mount the regexp and
then try to open /mnt/regexp/t/e/x/t/t/o/s/e/a/r/c/h.