On Sat Apr 18 12:21:49 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I agree that generally only one process will be accessing a "normal" > > file at once. I think an editor is not a good example, as you say. > > > > I'll say it again. It does not matter what we think. It matters what > apps do. And some apps have multiple processes accessing one file. > > As to the wisdom of such access, there are many opinions :-) > > You really can not just rule things out because reasonable people > don't do them. Unreasonable people write apps too.
do you think plan 9 could have been written with consideration of how people used x windows at the time? and still have the qualities that we love about it? - erik
