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Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2008 01:22:37 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post
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Interesting. Where is the source for 9sys?

Peace

uriel


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:09 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just stumbled across a talk I gave in 2002:
>
> Here's one slide:
>
> How to fix this (2): 9sys
> We are building a Plan 9 system call set into Linux
> It is only 38 calls
> Three steps
> Initial support as ioctl's from a device (/dev/9sys)
> Direct integration into Linux system call table
> Remove non-Plan 9 system calls (ca. 235 of them)
> Result should be Linux portability with Plan 9 architecture
> Greatly pared-down footprint
> Early code is working now
>
> Note that the system calls back then were 235 in number, are 300 now.
> Note that one of the steps was "remove
>
> good luck with glendix, it will be fun if it works. I stopped work on
> 9sys when lucent fixed the license.
>
> ron
>
>