> is that all files are equal, and doing away with abominations like > symlinks, device nodes and ioctls.
the 9P semantics for those things would be `wrong' (for the suggested use) anyway. a remote 9P's device node would access the remote device, not the local one, which is useful, but not for remotely-mounting roots. the basic problem, which i expect will never be addressed by the linux people, is that mknod and major and minor device numbers were of their time and now past their prime. (that's just one of the things that ``smells really bad''.)
