[9fans] Plan 9 future (Was: Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?)

[Roman V. Shaposhnick vugluskr@unicorn.math.spbu.ru]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> Many of the tools stand without the per-process
> namespaces.  That's why I think the ported libraries
> would be useful.  It's not clear to me how to implement
> something like 9spaces usefully.  As Dave mentioned,
> Dong has built 9P support into FreeBSD, and now
> we know someone is doing one for Linux too.  But there's
> still no per-process namespace.  I started something

  We hope to get the similar thing in Linux. A lot of work
has been done at a kernel level already, but the real problem
is userspace. Thus, I guess that from 2.4 Linux will be an
ideal environment to do that kind of porting.

Thanks,
Roman.