From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4db1089d8f25cfff119fed042105fa07@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <5366B839.30004@lynxline.com> <20140505110341.GB666@polynum.com> <4db1089d8f25cfff119fed042105fa07@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d040fa03cde5abc04f8a65765 Subject: Re: [9fans] New /prog idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: de126c8a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d040fa03cde5abc04f8a65765 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 5 May 2014 13:09, erik quanstrom wrote: > that has system call namespaces. the system calls that are not currently in the name space are those that do not distribute (and there have been a few things in the name space that don't distribute and are troublesome). segbrk doesn't distribute. rfork doesn't distribute. you can have a control request in a name space that operates on another process, or creates another process, but that's not a system call by the calling process: it's a request to another process for it to do something (possibly in the kernel domain, if there is one). --f46d040fa03cde5abc04f8a65765 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 5 May 2014 13:09, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
that has system call namespaces.

the system calls that are not currently in the name space are t= hose that do not distribute
(and there have been a few things in the name sp= ace that don't distribute and are troublesome).

segbrk doesn't distribute= . rfork doesn't distribute. you can have a control request in a name sp= ace that operates on another process,
or creates another process, but that's not a= system call by the calling process: it's a request to another process = for it to do something
(possibly in the ker= nel domain, if there is one).
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