From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7c4aefdefe571967ebca78226ee5edf6@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:17:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7702db32-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>> And finally, I'd say having these exceptions is a mistake. Unless, >>> there's a really good reason, they break the paradigm of RFNOMNT >>> quite needlessly without even a hint of a benefit. >> >> so, it's likely that RFNOMNT was added and to avoid >> breaking too many things, a few exceptions were added >> with the intention of fixing and removing them. > > i don't see why that's likely. > maybe those were simply judged to be the safe set of devices. for my part, i don't see why one would make it impossible to restrict those devices. (#| excepted, of course.) - erik