The second item was actually part of/among an April fool's jokes and
mental exercises I was thinking through for this very list:
1. M$ is adopting Illumos for OS's kernel:
a. With the point they were taking an item from Apple playbook not
adopting Linux;
b. Killer App was the ability to move apps between all your devices
(Hadn't heard of handoff yet);
c. Once I heard about the M$ 10/Ubuntu it was to be an outgrowth of
that and LX-brand/Ubuntu deal;
2. Bash fork called 'hash':
a. Everything is directory;
b. 'ilroy': pipe array declaration (McIlroy);
c. 'hash' command takes arguments for additional hashes;
d. 'shift' takes an argument and can be used on bash arrays;
e. some Perl5 operators like % for hashes (job-control conflict); and,
f. make xargs a keyword (doesn't need to spawn a shell) that can also
be have like the 'parallel' (PERL script that has so serious accumulated
startup penalties when used very often).
For context I was basically living all day and night in bash doing
bespoke data massaging and placing the pith into very large file-system
structure for analysis from the command-line.
On 8/27/16 3:30 PM, Will Beazley wrote:
that's awesome!
If I remember correctly plan9 has a shell that lets you declare an
array of pipes. I have wondered how one would augment bash to accept
these or similar arguments.
Further, I've often thought everything should be a directory instead
everything being a file...and have wonder aloud on how one would
provide XMLPath like directory walk throughs on files that aren't
XML/JSON...on and on...in bash.
On 8/27/16 3:13 PM, G B via smartos-discuss wrote:
Being interested in Plan9 I've been trying unsuccessfully to get it
to boot on SmartOS with KVM. I've been able to boot and install
9front, but Plan9 from Bell Labs, including, 9legacy and 9atom have
always failed. Today I was finally successful. In case anyone would
also like to try this was my path to success:
# qemu-img create -f qcow2 plan9.img 4G
# qemu-system-x86_64 -hda plan9.img -cdrom images/plan9-bell-labs.iso
-m 1024 -net nic,macaddr=ab:cd:ef:00:01:02 -enable-kvm -vnc :0
-enable-kvm -boot d -k sv -no-kvm-irqchip
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