From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011106133359.19311199BF@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:33:56 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 162beef2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'm not suggesting a change in Plan 9; I'm thinking about file system > name spaces in general, and thinking that the per-process variability > of Plan 9 is great, but I think it could be taken even further; in > that way unifying all the different kinds of links there are. To what effect? You've yet to ponit out a problem or limitation introduced by the way Plan 9 does this. It's one thing to say things could be different; it's quite another to make a convincing argument why it's worthwhile. -rob