(was slashes, now NFS devices)
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Thu Mar 7 06:02:24 AEST 1991
In article <GLX9W24 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > 2. This is probably most important. NFS is stateless.
> This is the killer. I think it would be reasonable to relax statelessness
> for devices, though.
Why do you think so?
Any argument you come up with will apply equally well to files.
FILES ARE STATE.
---Dan
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