From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:26:03 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] tip o' the day In-Reply-To: <8fd9ce77c40c8069aef69fa88b7d9841@vitanuova.com> Message-ID: References: <8fd9ce77c40c8069aef69fa88b7d9841@vitanuova.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09f420c2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > the real fix (i think) is to allow fds to refer to non-open files in the > plan 9 syscall interface (hence allowing exportfs to retain a reference > to walked-to directories without opening them), but that's a significant > change, hence unlikely to happen. well, overall, it would be actually kind of neat if 9p was reflected right out to userspace for some of the stuff I do. But boy, that is a change from open/read/write/close, that's for sure. ron