On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 02:27:59PM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > No, it doesn't. Union mounts were invented by Plan 9 and the Plan 9 > > behavior is the normative reference. > > Then why are you asking here? Why not ask on a Plan 9 list?
Because I'm talking about NetBSD and NetBSD's implementation? > I see no reason NetBSD's union mounts have to, nor even should, be > identical, or even as close to identical as the rest of the system can > support, to Plan 9's union mounts. ...maybe because Plan 9 invented union mounts and the reason we have them is that somebody thought it would be a good idea to have the same feature? (the first time someone thought that, we got onionfs, so somebody else went back and did it mostly correctly) > some relatively obscure OS most of them have likely > never heard of Should we have an arbitrarily different, i.e. wrong, implementation of, say, telnet, because it originally came from some relatively obscure OS most people now have likely never heard of? SunRPC? NFS? OpenGL? Don't be silly. > > Vague and ambiguous statements in our man pages aren't particularly > > helpful. > > Denigratory adjectives aside (I found the statements I quoted neither > vague nor ambiguous), If they were neither vague nor ambiguous relative to the implementation details I'm concerned about, I'd not have bothered asking. In fact, I probably shouldn't have bothered anyway, as so far this thread has not really produced any useful information. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
