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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows)
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:57:01 +0200
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> 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.