From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] I found this discussion pretty funny
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:54:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121017175425.GA1177@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYLN7zgP=-u1Yit8VqvkUtT3Re2PfdNBt2BT=W3B1XmN9g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:40:45AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> get to the part about why it's so great that pipe is a system call,
> not a device.
>
> This is the sort of back-and-forth that reminds me why I can't quite
> give up on plan 9 ...
>
> http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html
>
I like the way the discussion goes. From an outspoken Linus Torvalds
saying "nonsense", to a diving into details that progressively gives
points to some operating system with both "a lot of things are files",
and namespaces---these are related, but not identical.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 13:40 ron minnich
2012-10-17 13:47 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-17 13:48 ` dexen deVries
2012-10-17 19:04 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-18 0:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 1:10 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-18 20:31 ` David Leimbach
2012-10-18 20:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-17 14:23 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-10-17 16:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-17 18:28 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-10-17 19:47 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-10-17 17:54 ` tlaronde [this message]
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