[9fans] Re: Anyone still running plan9?

[Scott Merrilees Sm@itntl.bhp.com.au]

>Brandon Black <photon@nol.net> wrote:
>It really irks me a little that so many people want *nix ports of Plan 9's
>window manager, or editor, etc... but nobody wants to take the really
>great ideas.  WHy won't somebody take things like the namespacing stuff,
>the 9P and IL protocols, the fileserver/cpuserver/terminal concepts... all
>the good "internals" of Plan 9 and make an effort to bring those ideas
>into modern freeware *nix clones.  Merge it into Linux, or NetBSD, or
>HURD....   That would be a much more worthwhile effort.

Per-process name spaces and setuid root programs see like a
ripe place for problems.  Seems like you would need to fall back to a
default system namespace for these programs, and that would probably
be irksome.  I think there would be sufficient cases where the global
namespace assumption would cause problems grafting in a per-process
name space.

Then there are things like sharable environment variables.

Sm
underlying