Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:00:21AM -0700, mike burrell wrote: > > deniability". unfortunately Hurd doesn't offer namespaces a la Plan9, as > > that would make things easier. > > What is this namespace a la Plan9 feature? Maybe we do have it in disguise > or can easily provide it. Our name space is the filesystem, and it turned > out to be amazingly flexible so far.
namespaces are basically filesystems (or pieces of filesystems) that exist on a per-process basis. there's a paper on it (a little bit long) here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/names.html -- /"\ m i k e b u r r e l l \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED] X AGAINST HTML MAIL, / \ AND NEWS TOO, dammit _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
