Re: Creating new interfaces for specific servers

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Stephan Trebels <stephan@ncube.de> writes:

> From what I understand, the Hurd still has a static view of the
> namespace, even if enhanced by translators.  Unless you count
> fakeroot, of course.

Quite right.  When asked about the per-process namespaces of Plan 9,
and whether the Hurd has that, I used to say something like "fakeroot
will solve that".  That's about 50% dodge and 50% real.

> What Thomas is probably referring to, is, that all control commands
> (actually most) are replaced by read and write of ascii commends to
> files.  E.g. to connect to a server via TCP you can use something like
> echo 'dial 1.2.3.4!2' >/net/tcp/clone, or the like.  A bit like the
> /proc filesystem in Linux, but used throughout.

Exactly right.