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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:14:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> > It's a 9P bug; fix it there.  Turning random internal constants into a part
> > of ABI is not going to work.
> 
> I guess we would need to define them at the protocol level then. 
> Something like f88657ce3f9713a0c62101dffb0e972a979e77b9. 

The question is which ones make sense at the protocol level...