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Date: Fri,  1 Apr 2005 07:22:01 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly suggestions
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> If that is true, then one could easily duplicate the functionality in
> a script that tidies up after replica.  Can anyone suggest such a
> script and will it be totally safe?

if you rm /*/bin/_* /*/bin/*/_* at boot time 
in termrc or your file server's cpurc
(*not* the one that cpu servers booting from the file server run)
then that is safe.

it's not safe to remove them immediately after pull.
the whole point of the rename is so that if (say) you
have acme running and you download a new acme,
then if the demand loading tries to get a page of the
acme binary, it gets the one you were running and not
the new one, which may not match what is already loaded.

russ