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From: Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez <ramon.n.0.spam@n0.spam.juguete.quim.ucm.es.sim.ucm.es>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Essay: Is network transparency something bad?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:08:59 +0000
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Russ Cox wrote:
 >
 > 	- people do stupid things with x
 > 	- let's not anyone do x
 >
 > and the fallacy is that if you know what you're doing
 > it's very useful to do x.  Why tie your own hands behind
 > your back just so that people have to find some other
 > way to do stupid things?
 >

Though I do not agree entirely with the essay, I think that
he has a point.

It would be nice if Plan9 interfaces were extensible, so that, say, when
a file belongs to a filesystem mounted over a network the application
reading the file could receive optional events regarding availability,
progress of the operation, and so on.

Ramon