it is interesting that plan 9 could be rearranged as a classic µkernel, using 9p for message passing. a process server could do just that. before you kill me, note the difference between "interesting" and "better." ☺
how much slower is an exec over /cmd than via fork(2)/exec(2)? - erik On Fri Jun 9 16:59:40 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
