From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:25:32 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <35b09c83f408fc9fd7a2b0d019a96010@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> <41753982.2090903@anvil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: f147bcca-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > The "personality" can be completely isolated from the kernel. > > yes it can, and no it can't. > > Simple one: how do I get the name of the last user to change a file? I > don't think I can get that in linux but it's there in 9p. Easy. You run a different filesystem. The filesystem is not dictated by the kernel. Simple one: have a p9 userland with a 9p implementation that uses a remote file server. > Yes, there's a host of stuff you can do in emulation in libraries etc. > but there's also things that just never quite work right. So you can do > it, and it's good to do it to socialize the ideas (that's what "Software > Tools" did in many ways for Unix) but it's still not the real thing in the > end. I can't think of anything that you cant do right. That may just be my own shortsightedness. > ron Tim N.