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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  4 Oct 2009 13:25:35 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx
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> Plan9 can happily create an object with mode zero but a posix
> emulation of wstat() must do the rename()/chmod()/chown()/chgrp()
> etc in a fixed order which is bound to make some combinations
> mutually exclusive.

i'd be willing to bet that posix doesn't guarentee anything
even with the contortions.

- erik