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> > I disagree. Oh, not in the user interface model, but in the file system
> > and process model. It takes the UNIX "everything is a file" a logical
> > evolutionary step forward.

> Oh great.  One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you
> say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?"  I thought
> so)..

Plan 9 doesn't have IOCTL at all. Just about everything is done with open,
close, read, and write.