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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:24:05 +0000
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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.