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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Nov 2010 07:20:33 -0700
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] history question
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as part of the 1989 kernel, ken wrote its beginnings with a pattern
that involved a lot of repetitive typing but had the basic structure.
each function had to define local pieces. i took his idea and wrapped
it into the structure that's there now, which made it easier to get
right in practice. i'm not certain but i remember ken's version was in
the fs kernel; mine was in the regular kernel (although retrofitted to
fs) and introduced the way the errors fit into system calls.

-rob