POSIX defines a pretty good framework, which is why Plan 9 is POSIX-ish. They changed things that they thought needed improvement. I just wanted to point out th

POSIX defines a pretty good framework, which is why Plan 9 is POSIX-ish. They changed things that they thought needed improvement. I just wanted to point out that doing away with POSIX merely to do away with POSIX isn't necessarily wise; if you don't have a better idea to use instead, you'll just end up reimplementing much of POSIX under another name.