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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9
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> I think what I'd say is the most "novel userspace paradigm" in Plan 9
> is its pervasive synthetic filesystems. You have FTP filesystems and
> so on with FUSE now, but writing something as flexible (technically)
> as Rio still requires something other than FUSE. But more importantly,
> since Plan 9 *started* with those synthetic filesystems they're used
> everywhere, whereas they're pretty uncommon in Linux etc. It would be
> nice if web browsers used a kind of webfs, and so on.

Actually, what this discussion keep pointing out is the elegance of the
Plan9 authentication model vs. UNIX's superuser scheme.  It's the lack
of a superuser that makes the whole namespace paradigm work in the first
place.

--lyndon