From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:42:52 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code In-Reply-To: <21f67c6e38ea6a23caf7fb801589997e@vitanuova.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050217231738.GO77074@cassie.foobarbaz.net> <21f67c6e38ea6a23caf7fb801589997e@vitanuova.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4aefee46-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 it presents a clean 9p interface to user space. On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:33:47 +0000, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > > did you read russ' original post? > > yes. i was left wondering "why?" though. > > it's seems a bit like choosing a different fixed point for a recursive > function (though i'm probably abusing terminology again here!). > the work's got to be done somehow, and changing how the multiplexing > is done doesn't really change the fact that the multiplexing has to be > done somehow - it's just an internal architecture issue. > > i don't see what problem it was trying to address. > > hence my question to you. > >