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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> I implemented a fileserver that opened/read/write files that it was serving
> itself
> using the system calls.
> I suppose this is folly. But is it called recursion?

It's called deadlock unless you're really careful,
which I guess you were.

Russ