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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:22:09 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Tim Newsham wrote:

> 
> 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. 

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.

ron