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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows)
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 08:10:33 -0400
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9P has no chance of taking off in the Unix/Linux world:

* It's not complicated enough (symlinks, hard links, caching,
	exact Unix semantics)
* The model doesn't match the internal kernel structure
	(it's a bad fit with the vnode layer)
* It fixes things that Unix doesn't want to fix (numeric uids)

It might be possible to make a 9P-like protocol for Unix,
but a lot of the nice things about 9P would have to go away.

Russ