>On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:19:21 -0400
>Thaddeus Woskowiak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Copy /sys/src/9/pc/ether82563.c to somewhere in your home directory.
> 
> [...lots of super-cool hacking...]
> 
> Reboot and you should have a working system.

You know, Plan 9 promoters would get a lot further if they showcased
these kinds of shenanigans front-and-center, instead of talking this
abstract talk of "everything is a filesystem". I don't think I've ever
previously encountered a system that can patch itself like this in
real-time. Though I could be mistaken, PC DOS is pretty capable when it
comes to real-time self-modification. And it would be nice if it could
patch the driver without (re)booting, although that requires hardware
support to work in the general case.

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