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>File and file system becomes a partial concept (limited to each file system process), so there is no file in the process kernel data structure >"/" -> root v
by mapcars 8y ago
>File and file system becomes a partial concept (limited to each file system process), so
there is no file in the process kernel data structure
>"/" -> root vfs service handle, "/dev" -> dev fs service handle, "/net/dns" -> DNS service handle
Just resurrect Plan 9 already?
- DC-3 8y agoThis strikes me as an approach quite similar to that of Redox: > "Everything is a URL" is a generalization of "Everything is a file", allowing broader use of this unified interface for schemes. It makes sense to me - not every resource can reasonably be shoehorned into the file-folder abstraction. [1] https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources.html#what-does-everything-is-a-url-mean https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources....