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Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:24:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20250813015509.GA17097@mcvoy.com> <20250813155648.GA25260@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: <20250813155648.GA25260@mcvoy.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:24:30 -0400 X-Gm-Features: Ac12FXxxU-jBFp7nzBmP7W458Rc7YhaOIT6i8AwcEbGZBx5ki-P7p08s6OyAaPc Message-ID: To: Larry McVoy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: WUYKWIRVYIDNFKJ2N3FT3D2THHBJHKXM X-Message-ID-Hash: WUYKWIRVYIDNFKJ2N3FT3D2THHBJHKXM X-MailFrom: pjw@google.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Douglas McIlroy , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: NFS 40th anniversary event List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: =?utf-8?b?UGV0ZXIgV2VpbmJlcmdlciAo5rip5Y2a5qC8KSB2aWEgVFVIUw==?= Reply-To: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0ZXIgV2VpbmJlcmdlciAo5rip5Y2a5qC8KQ==?= It was a research proof-of-princple. (i.e.. partly principled and partly really hacky. My list of its issues was pretty long.) (If A mounted B's file system somewhere, and B mounted A's, then the directory tree was infinite. That's mathematics, not a bug.) On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:56=E2=80=AFAM Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:18:34AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 10:00???AM Douglas McIlroy > > wrote: > > > I was always sorry that Peter Weinberger's RFS never made it outside > > > Bell Labs. It allowed networking between separately administered > > > systems by mapping UIDs. > > > > I believe it did? If I recall correctly, it was available with System > > V, though perhaps I am misremembering. > > Sunos had it, my office mate ported it. I was unimpressed, it worked wel= l > between the same archs but was riddled with byte order problems and > ioctl calls that were not portable.