>> Would that satisfy your requirements? Oh, sure, I haven't ever used >> #| directly and I'm a bit ignorant of consequences, but the rest seems >> feasible. > > I suspect #| being an exception wouldn't hurt, though it might be viewed as > a historical wart, being the only one... could #| be made to operate more > like devdup and given a canonical mountpoint? > I'd love to see that, although I respect the Plan 9 developers enough to believe they have given the issue plenty of thought. Still, there have been some instance of expedience (don't ask me, I may have to take this back :-) and perhaps there is another way if one looks beyond the present boundaries.
>> Another aspect I noticed is that what you seem to need is a >> finer-grained construction of #p and #s, but being able to construct >> them one layer further down the hierarchy might suffice. > > "one layer further down the hierarchy" ? > Well, if you could bind a subset of #s by some selection criterion - specifically process group, but who's to know what else might be useful? - say, back onto a local /srv, you may have a sensible mechanism for jailing processes. But I'm once again speculating outside my knowledge and experience. >> Just an uneducated opinion, I've had little occasion to study those >> specific devices or the others in any detail. But I am curious of >> where this discussion could lead. > > I too. I have a feeling this is heading precisely where I would have liked to go a year or so ago, namely putting Plan 9 at the bottom of a paravirtualising executive. If that is the case, count me in on any further developments. ++L
