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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: (was slashes, now NFS devices)
Message-ID: <12662:Mar620:02:2491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:02:24 GMT
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In article <GLX9W24@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > 2. This is probably most important.  NFS is stateless.
> This is the killer. I think it would be reasonable to relax statelessness
> for devices, though.

Why do you think so?

Any argument you come up with will apply equally well to files.

FILES ARE STATE.

---Dan