I am planning on porting the /net concept of Plan9 to Linux. My Plan: Use libfs[1] to write a synthetic filesystem in Linux, much like securityfs[2], or /proc. This libfs based code will make calls to the TCP/IP stack on the linux, and basically be an alternative to the Linux kernel sockets. As a result I will expose networking using /net, instead of POSIX to the applications.
My Motivation: Glendix[3] My Question: I know that using /net instead of sockets is very different. But is it better? Specially from the networking side of things, not from application development point of view (which we have already established is simpler, by example). [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/57369/ [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/153366/ [3] http://glendix.org/ and http://glendix.org/glendix_iwp9_2008.pdf and http://www.osnews.com/story/20588/ Regards, -- Rahul Murmuria
