From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <44299baf-4678-4ba4-bc73-0c49dc70d006@www.fastmail.com> <42acf327df9fc07e@orthanc.ca> <1e0d89a3-7b55-44f9-b1f8-53a0493e8d9c@www.fastmail.com> From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:36:51 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] microsoft's plan 9 distribution Topicbox-Message-UUID: f65d7248-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 upspin seems to be mostly a global naming, fine-grained (not just groups) authorization, addressing and indexing system. conceptionally it doesn't require the use of CLI tools, though (unknown to me) it might be the first implementations are centered around that. i think the problems it attempts to solve are very real, and i'd like to find out more. i haven't seen how to have it represented on an easily accessible (conventionally) global file hierarchy on plan9 (and then, trivially on other systems by exposing it via cifs for example). On 2/20/19, Ethan Gardener wrote: > Oh lol... you know Upspin isn't designed to work with Windows Android or iOS > when you see how permissions are granted: a file called Access with no > extension. This is all right if you do everything from the command line, > but it's not exactly the ease and flexibility they claim to be going for. > Maybe there's an Upspin app you're supposed to do everything with, and > ditto! > >