Russ Cox

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This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

On a very minor note, Plan 9 can be considered to implement O_NOFOLLOW_ANY because there are no symlinks on Plan 9 at all.

More generally, I understand the motivation here, but the amount of new API is a bit daunting. I think we need to keep thinking about reducing the total amount of...

@mateusz834 Sure, Close can be called from multiple goroutines simultaneously. Same thing is true of os.File.

Re CWD, I disagree with having a global whose meaning changes each time the current directory changes. What is supposed to happen if I do this? ``` dir := os.CWD...

@rolandshoemaker and @FiloSottile to work out an API. It sounds like we should work on an API where Go keeps the handshake and then hands off the key so the...

@FiloSottile and I discussed this, and we wonder if this can be done without any new secret-sharing API at all: if kTLS is good enough, then Go should arrange to...

> I believe it would the be the right thing to get kTLS going as a default on supported systems. Having a secret sharing API might be useful for some...

It's done because in general (1) even parsing the flags is non-trivial, and (2) the flags may affect the validity and reproducibility of the run. It would be easy to...

I have no plans. I needed to read some PDFs. This library helped me. I don't have time to make it support many more purposes. It could be the core...