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From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal...
Subject: [9fans] Re: 9p question
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:39:33 GMT

>>I definitely can not understand why openness is persistent property in the 
>>sense that when I clone the open fid the copy happens to be open too.

clone(5) notes that ``The fid [to be cloned]... must not have been
opened for I/O by an open or create message''.