Re: "Why Reuser 4 still is not in" doc

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>Using this as an argument against plug-ins is a bit strange.  I suppose 
>somebody could go overboard and use plug-ins to implement a subKernel.  
>Would this then imply that plug-ins are wrong?
>
Ok, I've read some other threads too and so this claim should be adjusted:

Writing a plugin (not necessarily r4 specific) that changes the semantics 
of objects based on context (i.e. turning a file into a dir) is a bad idea 
IMHO.
Actually, BSD has this double-semantic to a limited degree: you can call 
`/usr/bin/vi /usr/bin` and get some binary representation of readdir.



Jan Engelhardt
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