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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue,  6 Jan 2009 20:37:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Why do we need syspipe() ?
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>This just means that these services need to be mounted at the canonical

there is no point binding #a or #D into the name space.
they can be used only locally and might as well
be accessed directly.  they might be considered similar to
"push" in streams.  #s has a similar difficulty to #a and #D when creating the names,
and requires special hacks to make existing files usable when exported.