From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:54:25 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20121017175425.GA1177@polynum.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] I found this discussion pretty funny Topicbox-Message-UUID: becdafb6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C