From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:25:09 PST." <1228155909.18951.33.camel@goose.sun.com> References: <1FAD6133-18F8-444F-BD6E-795999DE3170@sun.com> <1228155909.18951.33.camel@goose.sun.com> From: Bakul Shah Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:48:24 -0800 Message-Id: <20081201224824.270D65B04@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter in Plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5566ae86-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:25:09 PST "Roman V. Shaposhnik" wrote: > > P.S. I have always wanted to be able to trade namespaces > between different processes the same way file descriptors get > traded using #s. On the other hand, I have never ever possessed > enough insight into the overall ramification of such idea > to really judge it as good or bad. If others have thought about > the same thing -- I would appreciate the feedback. There is something appealing about being able to package up some resources in a namespace and then copying or moving the whole thing to another process, possibly on another node. The recipient doesn't have to know how it was put together or be able to modify the namespace structure.