Comment Parts of Plan 9 in Solaris at least (Score 1) 461
True to an extent. But where do you think the idea of /proc came from. At least on Solaris /proc was created by an ex-Bell Labs employee who worked on Plan 9.
The idea behind Plan 9 is that "there are no special set of system calls for applications to call to deal with the state of the kernel. Instead, the applications can be written using standard file I/O system calls." (taken from a SUNWORLD article by Peter Galvin"
Parts of Beowulf also make use of the Plan 9 ideal.
So it's being used and slowly the ideals are being incorporated.
Also Plan 9 is not for embedded use. It's a distributed system. Check out the Plan 9 home page for more information. If only it didn't cost $300 bucks.
The idea behind Plan 9 is that "there are no special set of system calls for applications to call to deal with the state of the kernel. Instead, the applications can be written using standard file I/O system calls." (taken from a SUNWORLD article by Peter Galvin"
Parts of Beowulf also make use of the Plan 9 ideal.
So it's being used and slowly the ideals are being incorporated.
Also Plan 9 is not for embedded use. It's a distributed system. Check out the Plan 9 home page for more information. If only it didn't cost $300 bucks.
