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Re: Hurd compared to Plan 9
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: Hurd compared to Plan 9 |
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Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:04:23 +0200 |
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"Shams" <shams@orcon.net.nz> writes:
Hi,
> 1. Does Hurd also maintain a namespace like structure?
The filesystem is the namespace.
> 2. Does it treat everything as a file just like Plan 9 eg. sockets?
No, not everything is a file like in Plan 9. In the Hurd the
filesystem is used to lookup a server, but RPC is used to communicate
with this server.
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Marco