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Date: Sun,  3 Jul 2011 16:44:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9
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On Sun Jul  3 13:58:49 EDT 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > I think what I'd say is the most "novel userspace paradigm" in Plan 9
> > is its pervasive synthetic filesystems. You have FTP filesystems and
> > so on with FUSE now, but writing something as flexible (technically)
> > as Rio still requires something other than FUSE. But more importantly,
> > since Plan 9 *started* with those synthetic filesystems they're used
> > everywhere, whereas they're pretty uncommon in Linux etc. It would be
> > nice if web browsers used a kind of webfs, and so on.
>
> Actually, what this discussion keep pointing out is the elegance of the
> Plan9 authentication model vs. UNIX's superuser scheme.  It's the lack
> of a superuser that makes the whole namespace paradigm work in the first
> place.

why do you think that the lack of a super user make per-process namespaces
work?

- erik