On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:40:45AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> get to the part about why it's so great that pipe is a system call,
> not a device.
>
> This is the sort of back-and-forth that reminds me why I can't quite
> give up on plan 9 ...
>
> http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html
>
I like the way the discussion goes. From an outspoken Linus Torvalds
saying "nonsense", to a diving into details that progressively gives
points to some operating system with both "a lot of things are files",
and namespaces---these are related, but not identical.
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