> I think this wildly overstates it. Much of the good innovations have been adopted in Linux.
The main innovation can't be done by addition. With plan 9, many special cases are removed. You no longer have to wonder what happens if you try to create a Unix socket on an NFS file system, and then mmap it: There's just 9p. Everywhere.
9p is nice, but it isn't special. Making the whole universe 9p is where the improvement lies.
The main innovation can't be done by addition. With plan 9, many special cases are removed. You no longer have to wonder what happens if you try to create a Unix socket on an NFS file system, and then mmap it: There's just 9p. Everywhere.
9p is nice, but it isn't special. Making the whole universe 9p is where the improvement lies.