On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:33:35PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> The big complaints I know of so far on 9P are
>
> - there is no posix file locking (sorry, but people want it) although
> the 'only allow one open at a time' is a pretty damned good substitute
>
> - no ACLs (I'm convinced that the stat and wstat could be trivially
>       extended to support this --- 9p2000.acl)
>
> - doesn't fit linux vfs semantics too well (just a joke, son, but true
>    too -- sometimes you have to fit a good thing onto a broken thing)
>
> That's about all I've hit so far. I spent about 5 years hacking on nfs,
> and I have to say 9p is a way better protocol.

I'm sure some crackhead somewhere has added ``doesn't do readlink or
symlink'' to that list.