khm - Unfortunately, that would conflict with the browsing model I want to propose once I've proven my worth - in which the user emails a daemon with the site they want, which the daemon then wgets, forwards to them, and opens up emacs.
Thanks! Marshall On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:58 AM Marshall Conover <marzhal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All! > > I've been exploring the Fuchsia operating system, and while they have > per-process namespaces, they don't have a utility like plan 9's bind, nor a > method of supporting it by default in their system libraries. I've made > some progress on adding it (https://imgur.com/HELWbrQ), but enthusiasm > for the concept seems lukewarm, and I'm coming to the point where I feel > I'm going to need to make a strong argument for why it should be a feature > of their per-process namespace filesystem. As someone who's neither on > their team nor an employee of google, I feel that I'm going to need to make > a damn good argument - and I'd very much like to, as it really, *really* is > something I'd like to have easily within reach in a modern OS, and it seems > like such a low-hanging fruit of a feature. > > I have two scenarios currently I feel make a strong argument for the > inclusion of bind: one is running tests on an install of a product while > still being able to do development on it, by using a bind to redirect the > development dll to the install's dll in the process I'm developing in; and > the other an example of when a bind would just be convenient, such as a > certain process needing python2 instead of python3 on a system which > defaults to python 3, and have scripts that reference #/bin/python. > > So, I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on other uses of bind. I > think they'd be useful both for making my case for bind, and in thinking > about my continuing implementation of the command. I also want to implement > union mounting in the future (which I can get very-close-to-being-free with > my changes for umount), but right now bind is my focus. > > Thanks for your time. > > Marshall >
