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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mount acme on plan9port
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df11001271349o7dee5c60l2cad4a93ebc50b76@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e6962a1001271335n523169a3gd1f2673f8a195c27@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> reflection of Linux VFS operations into 9P is often a strange and
> interesting experience.


Wish I could find Lucho's email on this, but the Linux guys
particularly don't like things like clone files; "Our scripts will
read them and cause trouble" is the basic complaint.

Bringing some of these new ideas to older OSes will hit some
incompatibilities that can't be fixed ...

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-24 13:02 Lorenzo Bolla
2010-01-24 16:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-01-24 17:55   ` Lorenzo Bolla
2010-01-24 19:27     ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24 20:09       ` David Leimbach
2010-01-24 21:51         ` Russ Cox
2010-01-27 11:44           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-01-27 13:23             ` Lorenzo Bolla
2010-01-27 13:40               ` roger peppe
2010-01-27 14:12                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-27 14:35                   ` roger peppe
2010-01-27 21:20                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-27 21:35                       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-01-27 21:49                         ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-01-27 22:47                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-01-28  6:24                       ` Russ Cox
2010-01-28 10:43                         ` roger peppe
2010-01-27 17:27     ` Eric Van Hensbergen

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