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From: Roman Shaposhnick vugluskr@uni...
Subject: [9fans] Re: 9p question
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:23:50 GMT

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:27:19 GMT, forsyth@cal... wrote:
>>>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''.

  Well, I certainly can read man page. I ask why there is such limitation, 
not where and how it is described. Sorry, but I would like to discuss bare
9P ( see my previous letter ).

Thanks,
Roman.