From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:57:34 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1227221854.5579.55.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <5d375e920811121100o15702c64ufb6e367220606058@mail.gmail.com> <4506d967646c9cd2dd052fb9f5356c7f@plan9.bell-labs.com> <3ADF7D1A-295E-42EA-BFFB-C7739BBC3FF7@sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4cfc59f8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:08 -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > > term% cat /n/unix-fs-symlinks/home/glenda/mama > > / > > # Best of all -- it all works as expected > > term% cd /n/unix-fs/home/glenda/mama > > term% ls > > bin cdrom etc initrd initrd.img.old lib32 lost+found mnt > > proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz > > boot dev home initrd.img lib lib64 media opt > > root srv tmp var vmlinuz.old > > There's certainly an esthetic niceness to that for symlinks and the > rest of the weird POSIX gunk; Thank you for saying that. > I don't know how well it might work for something like locks, Well, nobody yet offered any arguments for why it shouldn't. > I guess the two considerations there are overall system consistency > and how much one wants to try and make something weird "fit in" with > the rest of the system. I got a feeling that Eric was implying that this approach would somehow be more difficult for building the servers. I also got an impression that he was suggesting implementing one in order to feel the difference. Sadly, I can't really commit to doing that just yet. Thanks, Roman.