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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Attach/Auth
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:41:50 -0400
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> Oh, you mean the section 5 man pages rather than
> the lib9p man pages.  Ephase is a property of the
> implementation, which can do whatever it pleases.
> There can be file servers that will never give
> you Ephase (like u9fs running on a typical Unix
> file system).

I suspect that Roman was looking at the manpages in question from
the different side - he's dealing with client, not the servers.
So it's not a matter of "you are not required to...", but "you should
not expect the other side to...".