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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:12:53 +0000
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>>
>> I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an
>> ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time
>> when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more
>> convenient language for building such a thing anyway.
>>

[snip]

> so, since an ircfs is not a huge project, i don't think
> it's unreasonable to write one for plan 9.  it's what i
> would do.
>
> - erik

I would add to Erik's comments that perhaps Akshat wants to write an ircfs,
partly to have the end result of having such a tool, but also for the
experience of learning the parts of the plan9 system and techniques
required to build it.

That is what I have done in the past, and what I continue to do.

-Steve