http://planb.lsub.org/ls/octopus.html
is a user interface that includes graphics, exploits name space
representations, and doesn't just mimic the xerox desktop.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:35:12 EDT erik quanstrom
> wrote:
> > > You should explore /sys on Linux. They've embraced namespaces in a
> major way.
> >
> > what am i missing. linux' /sys is just a synthetic filesystem. where
> do you
> > see thi
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:35:12 EDT erik quanstrom wrote:
> > You should explore /sys on Linux. They've embraced namespaces in a major
> > way.
>
> what am i missing. linux' /sys is just a synthetic filesystem. where do you
> see this exploring the idea of namespace?
Oops. s/namespace/syntheti
> You should explore /sys on Linux. They've embraced namespaces in a major way.
>
what am i missing. linux' /sys is just a synthetic filesystem. where do you
see this exploring the idea of namespace?
- erik
did you notice the discussion was from this century?
surprising!
On Oct 17, 2012, at 8:28 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote:
> yeah, like mount... its files all the way down :)
>
> linux is like windows... everything is a HANDL^Wfiledescriptor
>
> --
> cinap
On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:48 AM, dexen deVries wrote:
> a technical and organizational problem: back then Linux' /dev consisted of
> special files held on drive, its MAJOR/MINOR schema* getting dangerously
> cramped.
>
> those days Linux' /dev is usually mounted at boot and maintained by kernel,
>
yeah, like mount... its files all the way down :)
linux is like windows... everything is a HANDL^Wfiledescriptor
--
cinap
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
whats the issue? plan9 has a syscall to create anonymous pipes:
#define PIPE21
--
cinap
On Wednesday 17 of October 2012 06:40:45 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.
> "Yes, some old-timers could argue that original UNIX didn't have sockets,
> and that the BSD interface is ugly and an abomination and that it _should_
> have been a namespace thing, but that argument falls flat on its face when
> you realize that the "pipe()" system call _was_ in original UNIX, a
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