From: jim <jim.whitson@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:30:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12269D75-4F45-11D9-901F-00112430C042@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c28239dd33c04e668032c40d598e778@collyer.net>
On 16 Dec 2004, at 00:24, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> OS X is in no sense a micro-kernel. The OS X kernel is huge:
So I see. Much like NT being a 'micro-kernel' then?
> Also, /sys/src/cmd/upas/README is a little dated:
>
> --rw-rw-r-- M 5174 sys sys 1041 Dec 11 1999 README
>
Ahh.
> I'm not sure if it pre-dates upas/fs, but it describes how to port the
> parts of upas that don't rely on Plan 9 facilities (transport more
> than reading). I ported Plan 9's upas back to Unix while at the labs
> (and also translated it into limbo), but some parts (e.g., upas/fs)
> didn't have an obvious implementation, other than painfully pretending
> to be an NFS server, at least at the time.
>
I see. The problem is in how to construct and present a filesystem on a
unix
with no user mounting system?
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2004-12-15 15:34 jim
2004-12-15 15:40 ` gdiaz
2004-12-15 15:47 ` jim
2004-12-15 15:50 ` Joseph Stewart
2004-12-15 15:57 ` jim
2004-12-15 16:10 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-15 15:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-15 16:04 ` jim
2004-12-15 16:24 ` C H Forsyth
2004-12-15 16:31 ` jim
2004-12-15 17:07 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-15 17:30 ` jim
2004-12-15 18:33 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-15 18:49 ` jim
2004-12-15 18:36 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-12-15 18:47 ` jim
2004-12-15 18:51 ` rog
2004-12-15 18:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-12-15 16:05 ` rog
2004-12-15 16:07 ` rog
2004-12-15 16:09 ` jim
2004-12-16 0:24 ` geoff
2004-12-16 4:12 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-16 4:51 ` geoff
2004-12-16 9:25 ` jim
2004-12-16 5:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-12-16 5:17 ` geoff
2004-12-16 5:20 ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-16 5:34 ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-16 5:29 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-12-16 15:54 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-16 17:52 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-12-16 18:13 ` Dave Eckhardt
2004-12-16 5:23 ` Andy Newman
2004-12-16 15:52 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-16 8:17 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-16 9:35 ` jim
2004-12-16 15:19 ` rog
2004-12-16 15:26 ` jim
2004-12-16 9:30 ` jim [this message]
2004-12-16 15:08 ` David Leimbach
2004-12-16 23:22 ` geoff
2004-12-16 23:25 ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-16 23:38 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 1:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-12-17 15:50 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 4:55 ` [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 9:54 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 10:22 ` geoff
2004-12-17 10:45 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 11:42 ` Andy Newman
2004-12-17 15:57 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 12:30 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-12-17 15:55 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 13:41 ` Derek Fawcus
2004-12-17 14:42 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-12-17 14:56 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-18 0:13 ` Tim Newsham
2004-12-18 0:13 ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-18 3:49 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-23 16:04 ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-17 15:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-18 12:35 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 18:52 ` [9fans] Acme mailreader David Leimbach
2004-12-17 23:20 ` Jack Johnson
2004-12-18 1:00 ` David Leimbach
2004-12-15 16:09 ` Russ Cox
2004-12-15 16:16 ` jim
2004-12-15 16:22 ` boyd, rounin
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