Ask HN: What is your oppinion on Plan9 making more (than Unix) stuff files? Is something not fitting that model? Are there any costs that are too big in some cases? Is some too much mind boggling than needed? |
Ask HN: What is your oppinion on Plan9 making more (than Unix) stuff files? Is something not fitting that model? Are there any costs that are too big in some cases? Is some too much mind boggling than needed? |
Interesting related paper which also gives some cases for which names don't work too well (one example is shared memory): http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names