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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:18:21 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P reading directory contents
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> 1) Topen with root fid and Tread with root fid
> This worked as expected

Good.

> 2) Just Tread with root fid
> This worked also the same, but I didn't expected that it is possible
> to read directory contents without preparing the fid for I/O through
> Topen.

Not good.

> Anyone can tell me if this is intended and why?

It's not intended.  It works because acme assumes it is talking
to an honest client, one who would never do (2).  Other servers
do more sanity checking.  Try fossil or the ones based on lib9p.

Russ