Hello,

On 19 December 2013 20:22, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
> Agreed.  I enjoy reasoned debate.  I don't enjoy being told the reason is
> because "that's the way we do it".  That is not reasoned debate.  It is club
> support.

I believe, from reading this mailing list for some time, you must be ready
to find many stupid reasonings. But opposite is, fortunately, also true: there
are people here who can help.

Second, you bumped into something which is not 100% to your liking, but on
the other hand is "simple" and works. The simplicity is, in my
opinion, what has always
counted for people seriously-involved in plan9 and is one of the main
advantages of the plan9 programs.

Third, it would be, from my experience, an error to expect that there are no
errors/flaws in the plan9 programs. When I started to play with plan9,
I thought:
it is simple, there are no errors. But in reality, whatever I tried,
it did not quite
work. So, my advice is to be ready to find such problems nearly all the time.
And since many people who created the programs are gone by now, there is
often little effort to correct these, even if there are true bugs.

That's what I think.

Ruda