From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1d5d51400910021329of1eeae4la53a25ed2940919b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d5d51400910021329of1eeae4la53a25ed2940919b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:29:30 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] clarification on man 9p From: Russ Cox To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7caf5f8c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining > arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs). The File interface is best avoided > when the tree structure is easily generated as necessary; this is true > when the tree is highly structured (as in cdfs and nntpfs) or is > maintained elsewhere." > > Is this referring to avoiding the usage of createfile and friends in > 9pfile.h for highly structured trees? Yes. You can look at the named examples to see the alternative. My experience has been, well, what it says in the man page: the File interface was an interesting idea but is rarely useful. Russ