From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Hans Reiser paper on name spaces in operating systems
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From: Richard Uhtenwoldt <ru@river.org>
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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:43:46 -0800
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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