>> >> I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an >> ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time >> when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more >> convenient language for building such a thing anyway. >>
[snip] > so, since an ircfs is not a huge project, i don't think > it's unreasonable to write one for plan 9. it's what i > would do. > > - erik I would add to Erik's comments that perhaps Akshat wants to write an ircfs, partly to have the end result of having such a tool, but also for the experience of learning the parts of the plan9 system and techniques required to build it. That is what I have done in the past, and what I continue to do. -Steve