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From: okamoto@gra...
Subject: Re: [9fans] pipefile 
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:15:25 0900

>/dev/kbd may seem more natural, but the idea that an arbitrary

Now I believe pipfile method is superior, because we can input
Japanese onto any window anytime.

>Pipefile may not be as convenient, 

Now, I believe it's not inconvenient.

>but it's much safer because you
>must explicitly create the process; there's nothing like /dev/kbd
>hanging around ready to receive random characters.

I still have problem to understand this.  In Plan 9, all the /dev
files are owned by hostowner which means s/he has superior
permission to key input anything.  I feel this is natural...

Kenji