Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread lucio
It seems to me that this type of operation would be considerably more successful if there was better interaction between the kernel and a running program. that is, if processes were engineered to accept unsolicited signalling from the kernel and, consequently, from other processes without being re

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
There was a proc box in the original Plan B of which there were different version in the descendants (for files too) and which permitted things similar to what you want. See http://lsub.org/ls/export/man.1e.ps (page 31) and http://lsub.org/ls/export/ubiterm.icps05.pdf Later, Andrey and Ron did so

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon May 5 10:40:18 EDT 2014, yshu...@lynxline.com wrote: > On 05/05/2014 03:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > nemo's kernels > > What is the nemo kernel? by the way i used that as a term of art to avoid the fact i messed up by not changing the name of nix, which in 9atom is quite different, n

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread Oleksandr Iakovliev
On 05/05/2014 03:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > nemo's kernels What is the nemo kernel? by the way signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> the system calls that are not currently in the name space are those > that do not distribute (and there have been a few things in the name > space that don't distribute and are troublesome). > > segbrk doesn't distribute. rfork doesn't distribute. you can have a > control request in a name spa

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 5 May 2014 13:09, erik quanstrom wrote: > that has system call namespaces. the system calls that are not currently in the name space are those that do not distribute (and there have been a few things in the name space that don't distribute and are troublesome). segbrk doesn't distribute. rf

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 08:53:39PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > On Sun May 4 18:01:22 EDT 2014, yshu...@lynxline.com wrote: > > > > > > > > Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: > > > > > > # cat /prog/new > $id > > > # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis > > > # e

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 08:53:39PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Sun May 4 18:01:22 EDT 2014, yshu...@lynxline.com wrote: > > > > > Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: > > > > # cat /prog/new > $id > > # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis > > # echo "/" > /prog/$id/

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun May 4 18:01:22 EDT 2014, yshu...@lynxline.com wrote: > > Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: > > # cat /prog/new > $id > # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis > # echo "/" > /prog/$id/cwd > # echo «Running» > /prog/$id/status > > Not to do it which echo/cat, but to

[9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-04 Thread Oleksandr Iakovliev
Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: # cat /prog/new > $id # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis # echo "/" > /prog/$id/cwd # echo «Running» > /prog/$id/status Not to do it which echo/cat, but to have remote access to /prog/new