From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121018011028.804ADB827@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <9128765.rfzXBNVfCE@coil> <63CDD553-2399-4283-9FFF-CB39F2F95151@bitblocks.com> <20121018011028.804ADB827@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:31:29 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d042de675a1d2e504cc5b45c1 Subject: Re: [9fans] I found this discussion pretty funny Topicbox-Message-UUID: bff446d4-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d042de675a1d2e504cc5b45c1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:35:12 EDT erik quanstrom > wrote: > > > You should explore /sys on Linux. They've embraced namespaces in a > major way. > > > > what am i missing. linux' /sys is just a synthetic filesystem. where > do you > > see this exploring the idea of namespace? > > Oops. s/namespace/synthetic filesystem/ > > It'd be a lot better if it was a synthetic file system in a restricted namespace. I don't think 100% of the processes need to or should have the opportunity to mess with /sys. But maybe that's just all this stuff I learned from Plan 9. :-) Dave --f46d042de675a1d2e504cc5b45c1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Bakul S= hah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:35:12 EDT er= ik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro= .net> =A0wrote:
> > You should explore /sys on Linux. They've embraced namespaces= in a major way.
>
> what am i missing. =A0linux' /sys is just a synthetic filesystem. = =A0where do you
> see this exploring the idea of namespace?

Oops. =A0s/namespace/synthetic filesystem/

It'd be a lot better if it was a synthetic file syst= em in a restricted namespace. =A0I don't think 100% of the processes ne= ed to or should have the opportunity to mess with /sys. =A0 But maybe that&= #39;s just all this stuff I learned from Plan 9. =A0:-)

Dave
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