Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> I don't see any meaning in Linux "adopting" some set of plan 9 > commands... Have you read the source code for their cat(1) ???

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread simon softnet
Plan 9 is good because it is a system designed with such principles in mind from the start. I don't see any meaning in Linux "adopting" some set of plan 9 commands...vanity.. On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:36 PM, dexen deVries wrote: > On Saturday 02 July 2011 20:23:02 Eli Cohen wrote: > > I have used

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread dexen deVries
On Saturday 02 July 2011 20:23:02 Eli Cohen wrote: > I have used gentoo extensively and plan9 for a few years now as well, and > this concept of "namespaces" for processes is a confusing but interesting > concept. linux'c `clone()' syscall (the underpinnings of fork()) actually do accept CLONE_N

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Eli Cohen
I have used gentoo extensively and plan9 for a few years now as well, and this concept of "namespaces" for processes is a confusing but interesting concept. maybe you could use grsec to limit the access to gentoo's "file system" at a per-process level. This would be somewhat similar to what plan9

[9fans] To p9 or not to p9? (was: novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9)

2011-07-02 Thread dexen deVries
On Saturday 02 July 2011 19:24:07 Jack Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:29 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > > disclaimer: i'm not a plan 9 person for any viable value of `p9 person' > > I'm in the same boat, but I aspire to be in the other boat. :) i'm with you there ;-) plan 9 seems to be

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Jack Johnson
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:29 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > disclaimer: i'm not a plan 9 person for any viable value of `p9 person' I'm in the same boat, but I aspire to be in the other boat. :) -Jack

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread dexen deVries
On Saturday 02 July 2011 18:15:17 Robert Seaton wrote: > (...) > Some of the things I have discovered so far: > * Sending things via plumber > (...) you've made me realize i've been using plumber-like stuff before. back on KDE 3.5, there was that `dcop' thingie that i've employed for plumbing a

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Jacob Todd
Private namespaces.

[9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Seaton
Hello, 9fans! I'm a GSoC student working on "Plan 9 From Gentoo", a Gentoo project to create a liveCD that comprises of a Gentoo base-system and a Plan 9-inspired userspace, instead of the typical GNU userspace. However, I'm new to Plan 9, and I'm wondering if veteran 9'ers have any suggestions f