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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:14:24 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
> A correction:
>
> Mea culpa. UNIX systems apparently force processes to share a single network
> stack,

gee how about that? Isn't it nice to acquire knowledge and *then* post?

> but that can be changed:
>
> http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/papers/zec-03.pdf
>
> A paper on virtualizing network stacks in FreeBSD kernel, 2003 USENIX.

Similar work is being done in Linux. I talked to the guy who is doing
it a year ago. Want to know what inspired it? Which OS? Wanna guess?

And, they are putting other "namespaces" into Linux. Wonder where they
got that idea and name? I know. Do you?

yeeesh.

ron