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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> I strongly oppose OSes with mutating semantics and don't like the
> "plugin" idea at all therefore.

I don't think that's the case, it's a little hard to say modules are a
plus and plugins are evil. This is not the core of the filesystem being
plugged, at least I hope not, but features which might have a new
implementation, or which may not be ready at the freeze. Think PAM for
filesystems.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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