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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2009 17:40:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices
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> Probably it was considered too restrictive not doing so, but that's IMHO.

there are suprisingly few uses of this.  even nsec opens /dev/bintime
directly.  none seem particularly compelling.

minooka; grep -n open `{find lib*|grep '\.[ch]$'}|grep '"#[|decp]'
libc/9sys/getpid.c:11: 	f = open("#c/pid", 0);
libc/9sys/syslog.c:83: 			sl.consfd = open("#c/cons", OWRITE|OCEXEC);
libc/9sys/sysname.c:13: 	f = open("#c/sysname", 0);

- erik