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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan 9
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   of "Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:13:26 GMT." <3d729bbe.68184539@news.cis.dfn.de>
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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2002 13:09:36 +0100
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> I think one of the tenets of the design is to make everything a file
> (perhaps with the idea of uniformly applying file security controls to
> everything). Thus all devices are seen as files, various OS abstractions,
> such as pipes and message queues, are seen as files, and so on.

"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion."
	--- Harlan Ellison.

steve