You should ask if anyone else did that before doing it, instead of saying
they are un-spined life forms.
Here I am, finally! :-)
I'm designing yet another file protocol for my toy/research os (whose kernel is derived from
Charles Forsyth's Plan9-9k), and I'd like to give a look at your prior art.
Some of my design decisions lead to a management of mount tables that is
pretty similar
to what you describe in your paper about the integration of 9P2000.ix.
Given you already walked this path, I'd like to know what you have learnt and if you faced issues I should be aware.
For example, the slight difference in bind semantics seems to reduce the risk of accidental loops in the namespace, but I would expect it would break related userspace assumptions.
Also, resolving the dot of each process in the Pgrp each time a mount is done, seems pretty complex and prone to deadlocks.
Don't you have a tricorder?
No... but usually I can get away with my sonic screwdriver... :-)