Why Plan-9?

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Sunder wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> > Transitive means that A mounts B, C mounts A and gets B free. Plan 9 does
> > this, managed by a set of authorization layers for fine control, native.
> 
> This could be bad.  Say B doesn't want to allow access to C for its file
> systems. Then what?  Any mechanisms to prevent A from resharing it?  It's
> also bad depending on how it's implemented.

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