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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:57:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <022c01c31a31$754e6ee0$e3944251@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e02e8a6caa9088f1692bc75cea3d7d18@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> 9P has no chance of taking off in the Unix/Linux world:

it's doable, but is it worth the pain?  the lunix (sic) kernel is 2M SLOC.

sysVr2 was bad enough, but 2M SLOC ... err no ...

all you need to see the how ptrace(2) was implented and that
prooved that linus had never seen the unix [say 7th Ed] kernel.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-14 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-14  8:57 Anssi Porttikivi
2003-05-14  9:25 ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-14  9:58   ` Stephen Wynne
2003-05-14 10:12     ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-14 12:10 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-14 12:29   ` Stephen Wynne
2003-05-14 13:47   ` ron minnich
2003-05-14 16:16     ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-14 15:57   ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2003-05-14 17:02     ` ron minnich
2003-05-14 17:05       ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-14 13:44 ` ron minnich
2003-05-15  9:22   ` Anssi Porttikivi
2003-05-15 12:04     ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2003-05-15 13:02       ` Dan Cross
2003-05-15 13:08         ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15 14:26         ` ron minnich
2003-05-15 13:59     ` [9fans] " ron minnich

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