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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ide fs patch for the current plan9 version
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:00:14 +0200
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geoff@collyer.net wrote:
 
> You probably ought to "mk clean" before you "mk" in
> /sys/src/fs/plan9pc.  We tried this sort of overlaid source tree and
> found a couple of hazards: existing object (.8) files in the
> underlying tree (/sys/src/fs in this case) can cause trouble if they
> are unwritable (e.g., due to lack of permission) or if they are newer
> than source files in the overlaying tree (./idefs in this case).
> 
> Russ and I didn't quite finish a program called stitch to perform this
> sort of overlay dynamically (it worked under light load).  Stitch

Isn't it more simple just to keep the source directory always clean and
always overlay your one before mk'ing? 
Or am I missing something?