hardly more complex. imagine if the operating state was expressed in some common data format - just imagine tables. and the shell then is my local preference th

hardly more complex. imagine if the operating state was expressed in some common data format - just imagine tables. and the shell then is my local preference that interacts with that data model. is that less or more complicated than the mishmash of oddly designed kernel interfaces we have today (fork. mmap. ptrace....so much of it is a mess) not only would that clean up the lot, and allow for a very straightforward remote indirection, but would open up all kinds of lovely usages like being able to trivially capture and replay command streams. interposition. general purpose rewrites. a well-defined domain in which to upgrade and downgrade the interface schema. and more things I'm sure I've never thought of.