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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:24:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87snb8xfdx.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120234025.2344519A47@mail.cse.psu.edu>

dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com (David Gordon Hogan) writes:

> > > Disallowing su, passwd, sendmail, etc etc isn't really a solution...
> >
> > Sure, but there are ways to handle that.  And until it's done we need
> > restricted mount.
>
> So your solution is to gradually evolve Linux until it becomes
> Plan 9, rather than just using Plan 9?

Sure.  The strategy of gradually evolving Linux to become Plan 9 is at
least feasible for most Linux users; "just using Plan 9" is impossible
for a great many of them.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-21 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-20 23:40 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 23:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 23:54 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-21 17:24 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-11-22  9:56 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-27  8:49 nigel
2001-11-27  7:24 nigel
2001-11-27  6:43 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-27  3:09 Russ Cox
2001-11-27  8:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-27  3:03 geoff
2001-11-26 18:27 erik quanstrom
2001-11-26  5:31 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-26 10:00 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-26 10:48   ` Matt
2001-11-26 14:29     ` Ronald G Minnich
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111260728070.16611-100000@snaresland.acl.la nl.gov>
2001-11-27  0:13       ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-27  1:37         ` Ronald G Minnich
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111261834400.19833-100000@snaresland.acl.la nl.gov>
2001-11-27  2:17           ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-27  2:28             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-27  2:46               ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-27 11:53             ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-27  2:22         ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-11-27  2:54           ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-27  3:06             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-26 14:18 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-26 18:26   ` Dan Cross
2001-11-22  0:42 rob pike
2001-11-22  0:36 rob pike
2001-11-21 23:02 rob pike
2001-11-21 23:26 ` Matt
2001-11-21 20:08 erik quanstrom
2001-11-21 16:49 forsyth
2001-11-21 14:52 presotto
2001-11-21 20:12 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-21 20:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-21 22:50   ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-25 15:23   ` david presotto
2001-11-25  4:19     ` George Michaelson
2001-11-21  3:02 Eric Grosse
2001-11-21  1:29 okamoto
2001-11-21  3:46 ` Ronald G Minnich
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111202037460.14857-100000@snaresland.acl.la nl.gov>
2001-11-21 17:51   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-21 22:44     ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-21  0:03 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 23:48 forsyth
2001-11-20 22:54 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 23:17 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 23:49   ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-20 23:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 22:40 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 22:47 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 23:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 22:20 presotto
2001-11-20 22:08 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 23:40 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-21 15:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-20 22:05 erik quanstrom
2001-11-20 21:24 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 21:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 20:54 presotto
2001-11-20 20:49 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-20 20:57 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-21  5:59   ` Taj Khattra
2001-11-20 10:22 forsyth
2001-11-19 21:46 [9fans] vmware Russ Cox
2001-11-19 23:59 ` [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux Matt
2001-11-20  5:26   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 17:28   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-20 20:46     ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 21:08       ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 21:48         ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 22:28           ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-20 23:14             ` Alexander Viro

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