From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1233592196.4412.250.camel@goose.sun.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:07:30 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10902020907i6d47634dj9a3c9ff1afb3f77a@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9228a748-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, roger peppe wrote: > why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet? > is there any point to it at all any more? They depend on it now more than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at what port many people use for NFS nowadays. Lots of bad things have never been fixed, and this is one of them. I guess it's more fun to lard GUI software over top and hope nobody notices. ron