Yes i am aware, and i suspect the Linux devs were in part inspired by that (Linux may even support 9P, iirc). Plan 9 was pretty much about taking the "everythi

Yes i am aware, and i suspect the Linux devs were in part inspired by that (Linux may even support 9P, iirc). Plan 9 was pretty much about taking the "everything is a file" thinking to its logical end point. Meaning that you could even manipulate individual GUI windows via the FS. I was simply musing that Linux may have taken the concept further than the BSDs while still being "unix". I can't say i ever got the impression that Plan 9 was intended to be posix compatible for instance.