Well, in Plan B we made an experimental /cmd, where processes were files in the sense that mkdir created one process, cp was used to supply the binary and the like. It did work, but it seemed more convenient to use the distributed plumbing to deliver cmd execution requests, and then, ox, the shell underlying omero, is in charge of executing the commands. Now we are back into /proc.
On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
which is to say that plan 9/unix don't take files to that extent. processes are not files, for example, /proc notwithstanding. - erik On Fri Jun 9 16:34:08 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Lisp machines/environments did this 25+ years ago. > > Everything is an s-expression is even more fun than > > everything is a file! > > I don´t agree. The problem with lisp is that you don´t have > protection. Didn´t you manage to bring down the whole emacs > by, say, implementing your CD player in elisp?. Now, in > Plan 9 processes are really isolated. If one of them crashes, the other > ones stay alive (Probably).
