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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nemo book
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:15:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9b258dce992cf8fe5413ecf2e272511@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYK+8TbaceUcfTAnuWruxahHvMmSgqGHKpH7jcZME=C5ww@mail.gmail.com>

> That's a very interesting point. Implementing lguest on Plan 9 would
> require something like 13 "system calls". Far easier than doing the
> near-400 system calls of linux correctly.

At the cost of running an entire linux kernel on plan9...

cinap's linuxem (with my hacks) implements 139 syscalls and
seems to run most things. I haven't tried opera recently but my test
environment is in-sync with the stable Debian release (squeeze).

-Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 21:43 s s
2011-09-14 21:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-14 21:46   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-14 21:48     ` s s
2011-09-14 21:52     ` s s
2011-09-14 21:50 ` hiro
2011-09-14 21:55   ` s s
2011-09-14 21:57     ` John Floren
2011-09-14 22:13       ` L N
2011-09-14 22:17         ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 22:41           ` L N
2011-09-14 22:54             ` John Floren
2011-09-14 23:14               ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-14 23:19               ` L N
2011-09-14 23:30                 ` hiro
2011-09-14 23:33                   ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 23:43                     ` Akshat Kumar
2011-09-14 23:45                       ` hiro
2011-09-15  0:39                     ` L N
2011-09-14 23:32                 ` ron minnich
2011-09-14 23:43                 ` Nick LaForge
2011-09-15  9:40               ` dexen deVries
2011-09-16  0:02             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16  0:15               ` ron minnich
2011-09-16  0:31                 ` [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16  0:41                   ` ron minnich
2011-09-16  0:53                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16  1:21                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-16  2:13                     ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-16  2:46                       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-09-16  3:58                         ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-16 14:52                       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16  5:53                   ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-16 10:11                   ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2011-09-16 14:56                     ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16 15:17                       ` tlaronde
2011-09-16 17:36                         ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-18  5:39                         ` stephano zanzin
2011-09-16 11:28                   ` Steve Simon
2011-09-16 14:43                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-16  3:46                 ` [9fans] Nemo book Jens Staal
2011-09-16  9:07                   ` yy
2011-09-19 15:43                   ` ron minnich
2011-09-19 16:37                     ` Jens Staal
2011-09-19 17:50                       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-19 18:10                         ` tlaronde
2011-09-19 18:21                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-19 20:32                     ` Richard Miller
2011-09-20  3:20                       ` Jens Staal
2011-09-20 10:07                         ` Richard Miller
2011-09-16 11:15                 ` Steve Simon [this message]
     [not found]               ` <CAP6exYK+8TbaceUcfTAnuWruxahHvMmSgqGHKpH7jcZME=C5ww@mail.gmail.c>
2011-09-16  0:18                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-16  4:52               ` L N
2011-09-16  7:21                 ` David du Colombier
2011-09-16  7:28                   ` cinap_lenrek
2011-09-16  8:33                   ` Richard Miller
2011-09-14 23:27           ` Jeff Sickel
2011-09-14 23:55             ` Rob Pike
2011-09-14 22:27     ` hiro
2011-09-14 21:58   ` s s
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-17 15:20 [9fans] nemo book Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-17 16:07 ` John Floren
2009-08-17 20:52 ` Steve Simon
2009-08-17 21:01   ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-17 21:20     ` John Floren

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