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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:04:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0812300704y1bd1b6c7ib9fa54fbf7ffbb4c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081230082245.GA8355@masters10.cs.jhu.edu>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> If #s can be virtualized -- ala srv^2 or devcapsrv or something else -- then
> the system is one step closer to supporting the above.  There is some
> machinery for sealing off #p that I do not recall in full detail but may
> well be sufficient, at least for my desires.
>

I think this is an interesting direction to explore.  Extending
private name spaces to private device instances seems to make sense as
a logical extension of the system (as long as its useful to someone).
We already can have private network stacks, are their other devices
which might make sense for similar principles?

       -eric



  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-23 18:01 Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-23 22:52 ` Rodolfo kix Garcia
2008-12-23 23:53   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-12-24  1:10     ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24  1:39       ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24  3:00         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24  4:14           ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24  7:36             ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-24 13:36               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-27 20:27                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-27 20:34                   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-12-27 20:21       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-30  8:22         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-30 15:04           ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2008-12-30 15:31           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-01 22:53             ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-01 23:57               ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-03 21:23                 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-03 21:41                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-03 21:59                     ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-03 23:57                   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  5:19                     ` lucio
2009-01-04  5:48                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-04  6:10                         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  6:43                           ` lucio
2009-01-05  1:12                             ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-05  1:32                               ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-05  3:48                                 ` lucio
2009-01-04 17:32                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-04 18:23                             ` lucio
2009-01-05  1:24                               ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-04  5:58                       ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-04  6:26                         ` lucio
2009-01-04 15:46                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-05  4:30                     ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-24  1:17   ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2008-12-27 17:06 ` Russ Cox

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