Re: [9fans] FYI, glendix new 13 syscalls

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> Hi,
>
> A quick status update: 13 system calls have been implemented - just
> enough to get a basic set of utilities running. So far we have cat,
> sed, grep, 8c and a few others to run. Notable executables that don?t
> work are 8l, ls, awk and sam (either because they look for filesystems
> that aren?t there, or depend on stat which isn?t implemented correctly
> as of yet).
>
> Grab sources via git from here.
> http://sources.glendix.org/?ptroot/glendix/main.git;ammary
>
>All the files inside syscall/ are to be put inside the linux kernel
>tree (replacing files with the same name). The files inside loader/
>are just a normal kernel module. Both together will let you execute
>native Plan 9 binaries in Linux.
>
>Patches, comments and suggestions are most welcome!
>http://glendix.org/
>
>TIA

All the applications of Plan 9, with all the lightweight sensible
kernel goodness of Linux?  ;)

Kidding aside, looks fairly interesting.  I look forward to seeing it
when completed.


John