From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: perry at piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:31:50 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Other OSes? In-Reply-To: References: <20180705055650.GA2170@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20180708163150.0c9e1870@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:56 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: > > OK, I guess I'll be the one to start things going on the COFF > list. > > What other features, ideas etc. were available in other operating > systems which Unix should have picked up but didn't? A fascinating topic! On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 23:40:36 -0700 Bakul Shah wrote: > - Capabilities (a number of OSes implemented them -- See Hank > Levy's book: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/ A fascinating resurrection of capabilities in a kind of pleasant Unixy-way can be found in Robert Watson's "Capsicum" add-ons for FreeBSD and Linux. I wish it was more widely known about and adopted. > - Namespaces (plan9) A good choice I think. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com