Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:53:41 -0500 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > p9fs exists. I didn't see these patches since August, but probably I can poke > Roman into porting it to the current tree. 9P is quite simple and unlike > CORBA it had been designed for taking kernel stuff to userland. Besides, > authors definitely understand UNIX...
I would side with Viro here. Just as we would all cringe if MSFT added COM/ActiveX support to the NT kernel, us Unix folks cringe at the thought of adding CORBA to the kernel. However, that doesn't mean that we dislike the idea of exporting kernel services and interfaces for use in userland. And Plan9 seems to have some rather elegant and efficient methods for doing that. In Plan9, everything really is a file! It's as if they got a chance to do Unix again, and they did it consistently this time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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