I just stumbled across a talk I gave in 2002: Here's one slide:
How to fix this (2): 9sys We are building a Plan 9 system call set into Linux It is only 38 calls Three steps Initial support as ioctl's from a device (/dev/9sys) Direct integration into Linux system call table Remove non-Plan 9 system calls (ca. 235 of them) Result should be Linux portability with Plan 9 architecture Greatly pared-down footprint Early code is working now Note that the system calls back then were 235 in number, are 300 now. Note that one of the steps was "remove good luck with glendix, it will be fun if it works. I stopped work on 9sys when lucent fixed the license. ron
