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Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers |
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13 Jun 2002 14:07:39 -0700 |
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Stephan Trebels <stephan@ncube.de> writes:
> From what I understand, the Hurd still has a static view of the
> namespace, even if enhanced by translators. Unless you count
> fakeroot, of course.
Quite right. When asked about the per-process namespaces of Plan 9,
and whether the Hurd has that, I used to say something like "fakeroot
will solve that". That's about 50% dodge and 50% real.
> What Thomas is probably referring to, is, that all control commands
> (actually most) are replaced by read and write of ascii commends to
> files. E.g. to connect to a server via TCP you can use something like
> echo 'dial 1.2.3.4!2' >/net/tcp/clone, or the like. A bit like the
> /proc filesystem in Linux, but used throughout.
Exactly right.
- Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/06/12
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/12
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/12
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/06/13
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/13
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Stephan Trebels, 2002/06/13
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers,
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Oystein Viggen, 2002/06/13
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Niels Möller, 2002/06/14
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/14
- Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/13