From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3B4B13AF.6336FDA6@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:17:57 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c4935f3a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 What is it, apart from someone having to do the work, that would prevent the above-device-level portion of Plan 9, perhaps Inferno's emu, running on top of a UNIX system (or even Windows, gasp), with the hosted-Plan-9 first importing the UNIX /-rooted file system globally then overlay- mounting the hosted-Plan-9 specific parts of the name space? I.e. true rio, acme, etc. for people who are not in a position to control the choice of operating system. I know that would introduce inefficiencies in the data paths, but that is not necessarily a fatal problem.