From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chris@cjl1.demon.co.uk To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <20030225100713.5309c11f.martin@mca-ltd.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] A proposal regarding # in bind User-Agent: Demon-WebMail/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:02:27 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71a8218c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Rather than rog's special special #name for acquiring the local device namespace I'd prefer a syscall. Things in the namespace (named by paths) can be anywhere in the network. Syscalls are tied to the local machine. This seems conceptually cleaner. Other notes: pctl(NODEVS) still allows attach to certain devices such as devpipe and prog. Martin's unmount /ur would prevent an app from killing off any spawned threads or using pipes, which seems draconian. [NOTE: general access to prog is a problem anyway - consider multiple users logged in as 'none' - any one can kill the threads of the others.]