Unix Programming - Problems in the Design of Unix - Unix Has Too Many Different Kinds of Names
Unix Has Too Many Different Kinds of Names
Unix unified files and local devices — they're all just
byte streams. But network devices accessed through sockets have
different semantics in a different namespace. Plan 9
demonstrates that
files can be smoothly unified with both local and remote (network)
devices, and all of these things can be managed through a namespace
that is dynamically adjustable per-user and even per-program.
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