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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:06:37 +0000
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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.