On May 30, 6:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Cox) wrote: > If you want to violate a convention, Plan 9 won't stop you, > but in doing so you give up compatibility with programs that > depend on that convention (bind /net/tcp /proc; ps). > Sure, you could replace ctl and clone and other special files with reads > and writes at magic offsets, but in doing so you give up accessing > those files with standard programs like echo and cat. For me, > the main benefit of user-level file servers is exactly that I can > interact with them from a wide variety of programs, including > scripts and interactive shell sessions. I'd need a pretty compelling > reason before I gave that up.
Thanks Russ for such a thorough and pragmatic response, I'm happy to have learned something :) Nyang
