From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:52:36 -0800 From: Christopher Nielsen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code Message-ID: <20050217225236.GN77074@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4acbd5ec-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:21:19PM +0000, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > > of course, it's perfectly possible to take the view that plan 9 is > perfect; that beyond minor bug fixes, new hardware ports and device > drivers and more applications, plan 9 is as good as it could be. > > if that's the consensus view, then fine, i can live with that. > > but personally, i think that there *are* places where plan 9 doesn't > perhaps do as well as it could, and fixing some of those might require > the rethinking of some core parts of the system. we talked about some of this at the OSDI BoF. there are places where plan 9 can be improved. i have a list of projects that i ammend every time i come across something that i think would be good to have or should be improved. i talked to russ about his idea of turning the kernel into an efficient 9p mux and making everything talk 9p. i think that is an interesting idea. a link to his initial thoughts on it is here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/3bcdde3580d62263 i've talked to presotto about implementing something like sfs. http://www.fs.net/sfswww/ i've started working on an implementation of gbde as an extension of devfs. don't hold your breath on when it will be done. really busy with paying work these days. http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/bsdcon-03.gbde.paper.pdf so there are plenty of good project ideas. i don't announce mine because i don't want there to be any expectations that i am going to produce them in a timely fashion. unfortunately, plan 9 is a hobby for me. if i had a way to pay the bills and improve plan 9, i'd certainly do it. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin