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/$id/cwd > > # echo «Running» > /prog/$id/status > > > > Not to do it which echo/cat, but to have remote access to /prog/new > > so that's an interesting idea. i've toyed with the idea of having > a mount driver analog for system calls, but got tripped up on > the details, and the lack of a specific need.
The Bell Labs paper about plan9 talks about metaphors that can be abused: "Nonetheless, it is possible to push the idea of file-base computing too far." This the "Discussion" at the end of the paper... Playing with the idea and thinking about the implementation is probably a good way to understand the paper... -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.renaissance-francaise.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C