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Subject: [9fans] unlink/remove/whatever
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:28:56 -0400
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 From ken thompson:

> a) was the 'unlink but leave around for anyone with it open'
> a motivation for inode's in Unix or just a lucky/unlucky
> consequence?

it was deliberate.

> b) why dump the ability in Plan 9?

it is not dumped, it is just not specified.
the p9 protocol is much more general than
the unix file system. it would be folly to
specify such actions at the protocol level.
a particular implementation of P9
(say a file system) might choose to implement
it this way, but other implementations,
(say ftpfs) couldnt possibly do it.