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I hope someone can find a niche for Plan 9, be it on the RPi or somewhere else. So many of its ideas seem to me to be obviously correct in the sense that they
by bloaf 9y ago
I hope someone can find a niche for Plan 9, be it on the RPi or somewhere else. So many of its ideas seem to me to be obviously correct in the sense that they logically and conceptually-purely fix the warts other Unix-like OSes have.
- cnnrro 9y agoCould you expand on that point? While I'm not knowledgeable on the topic I'm genuinely curious to hear a few examples.
- bloaf 9y agoI think this says it very well: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html >One of the examples from the Plan 9 survey paper is the way FTP access to remote sites is implemented. There is no ftp(1) command under Plan 9. Instead there is an ftpfs fileserver, and each FTP connection looks like a file system mount. ftpfs automatically translates open, read, and write commands on files and directories under the mount point into FTP protocol transactions. Thus, all ordinary file-handling tools such as ls(1), mv(1) and cp(1) simply work, both underneath the FTP mount point and across the boundaries with the rest of the user's view of the namespace. The only difference the user (or his scripts and programs) will notice is retrieval speed.