From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: theoh@chiark.greenend.org.uk, theoh@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hans Reiser paper on name spaces in operating systems 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:47:43 GMT."
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From: Theo Honohan <theoh@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:53:02 +0000
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Theo Honohan wrote:
> 
> Googling for "context plan 9 " brings up a paper about naming policies
> in Sun's Spring system, which appears to define and use "context" in
> an appropriate sense.  So, maybe that's where he got it from.
> 
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/73091.html

Digging deeper, it looks like this usage comes from an older paper by
Saltzer:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/nbib/6014040

Someone much older than me will now explain properly.