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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan 9
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2002 13:09:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209021209.NAA01326@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Roberts <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> of "Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:13:26 GMT." <3d729bbe.68184539@news.cis.dfn.de>

> I think one of the tenets of the design is to make everything a file
> (perhaps with the idea of uniformly applying file security controls to
> everything). Thus all devices are seen as files, various OS abstractions,
> such as pipes and message queues, are seen as files, and so on.

"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion."
	--- Harlan Ellison.

steve




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-30  9:57 [9fans] " Isaac Stern
2002-09-02  9:13 ` [9fans] " Nick Roberts
2002-09-02 10:11   ` Lucio De Re
2002-09-02 12:09   ` Steve Kilbane [this message]
2002-09-02 14:14   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-02 12:28 Russ Cox
2002-09-02 14:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-02 14:44 Russ Cox
2002-09-04  2:37 ` Eric Dorman
2002-09-03  0:35 Geoff Collyer

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