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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ephase question.
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:31:20 +0000
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"rob pike, esq." wrote:
> Unix's semantics are an accident of the way
> it implemented its file system.

"Accident" in this case need not imply "unintentional".
When Canaday et al. invented the inode-based system,
it is conceivable that they thought the semantics were
just what they wanted.

I actually *like* being able to have scratch files that have
no directory entries, because they are *guaranteed* to go
away when the processes using them all terminate.

> Plan 9 has different semantics.

Indeed.