From: Richard Uhtenwoldt <ru@river.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Hans Reiser paper on name spaces in operating systems
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:43:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16cDYY-0002u5-00@po> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Vctv-0002bm-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk>
John Murdie writes:
>For those people who haven't seen this already: a paper by Hans Reiser
>(of Reiser File System fame) called ``The Naming System Venture''. It
>briefly mentions Plan 9.
>
>http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html
From that paper:
[Plan 9's] major focus is on integration.
Their major trick for increasing integration is unifying the name
space.
Name spaces integrated into the Plan 9 file system include the status,
control, virtual memory, and environment variables of running
processes. They have a hierarchical analog to what the relational
culture calls constructing views, that the Plan 9 culture calls
context binding.
Huh? Can anyone define "context binding"?
googling on "plan 9" and "context binding" gives no joy, and
$ cd ~/mail_lists_archived
$ grep -i 'context bind' plan9*
$ cat plan9* | wc
750695 3857580 32044532
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-16 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-29 18:22 John Murdie
2002-01-29 18:53 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-31 0:32 ` Matt H
2002-01-31 0:50 ` Andrew Simmons
2002-02-01 12:15 ` patric keller
2002-02-01 9:57 ` ozan s yigit
2002-02-16 22:43 ` Richard Uhtenwoldt [this message]
2002-02-17 14:47 ` Theo Honohan
2002-02-17 14:53 ` Theo Honohan
2002-01-29 19:15 forsyth
2002-01-30 11:39 ` Boyd Roberts
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