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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 08:40:33 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] files vs. directories
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On Thu Feb  3 08:39:20 EST 2011, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3 February 2011 11:45, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
> > read(open("/foo")) returns byte stream under entry `foo' in the root object.
> >
> > readdir("/foo") returns `bar' (and possibly others) -- entries in hierarchical
> > section of object `/foo'.
>
> there's no distinction between readdir and read in plan 9.

offset tracking is different.

- erik