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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Its trickier than that - because all your other semantics have to align,
> its akin to the undelete problem (in fact its identical). Do you version on
> a rewrite, on a truncate, only on an O_CREAT ?

Even better, what do you do upon link(2)?  Or rename(2) over one of the
versions...

VMS is not UNIX.  And union of these two will be hell - incompatible models,
let alone features.  "Well, I don't use <list of Unix features>" is not an
answer - other people have different sets of things they don't use and you
can be sure that every thing you don't care about is absolute must-have
for somebody else.

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