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And just to elucidate further one frees the data on a clunk.

It could be the source of a DoS if your 9p is public facing.
>> why not just tie the fid to a "file" version.  then it would be easy
>> to handle offsets.
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> that's effectively what i do in similar cases.  so does ndb/cs, amongst others.
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