On Sun Jul 3 13:58:49 EDT 2011, [email protected] wrote: > > I think what I'd say is the most "novel userspace paradigm" in Plan 9 > > is its pervasive synthetic filesystems. You have FTP filesystems and > > so on with FUSE now, but writing something as flexible (technically) > > as Rio still requires something other than FUSE. But more importantly, > > since Plan 9 *started* with those synthetic filesystems they're used > > everywhere, whereas they're pretty uncommon in Linux etc. It would be > > nice if web browsers used a kind of webfs, and so on. > > Actually, what this discussion keep pointing out is the elegance of the > Plan9 authentication model vs. UNIX's superuser scheme. It's the lack > of a superuser that makes the whole namespace paradigm work in the first > place.
why do you think that the lack of a super user make per-process namespaces work? - erik
