From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Passing a file descriptor between processes
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:27:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101105122729.GF1900@fangle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=KTpWad2QCwp1fH2uyEq3NDVG3O2mLmMp2-592@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:16:30AM -0400, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
>
> '#s' is a pretty unfortunate interface,
> though...
>
Maybe. But it is only a tool and as such it can be replaced or augmented.
It's unlikely that Plan 9 will retain its integrity without #s, but
that does not mean that an alternative can't be installed with similar,
but more friendly semantics. Hm, let me try this: it means that an
alternative can be installed, more suitable to a slightly different
application. It does need to be a kernel device.
++L
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-05 10:29 Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-11-05 10:57 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-05 10:58 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 11:03 ` roger peppe
2010-11-05 11:41 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 12:16 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-05 12:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 21:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-11-05 12:27 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
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