Subj : Re: linux permissions issue
To   : scarface
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 04 2025 11:19:31

On 04 Sep 2025 at 07:49a, scarface pondered and said...
 
 sc>  te> "Unix" from the network.  But that time has passed and that place no
 sc>  te> longer exists, so it's unclear what lessons are still applicable.
 sc> 
 sc> Yeh. I guess the current computing model of today is more that everyone
 sc> has a high powered computer in their pocket these days. So many people I
 sc> know don't have a desktop anymore.

Yeah.  I think that one of the things that's kind of interesting
about this, and perhaps it does tie back to the Plan 9 way of
thinking about things, is that you have a wildly different types
of machines fulfilling very different roles.  Trying to run the
same system on all of those is, perhaps, not the best way to go
about things.  We see Linux running on everything from watches and
small embedded devices to the largest supercomputers in the world;
maybe that's not the way we ought to be going about things.

 sc>  te> 1. A single unified network protocol for access resources in a
 sc>  te>    file-like manner,
 sc>  te> 2. Per-process(group) mutable namespaces for resources,
 sc>  te> 3. The security model.
 sc> 
 sc> Thank you very much. I too like the idea of everything is a file, and
 sc> that the unix network model is kinda bolted on to act like a file, but
 sc> with very different interfaces.

Yeah.  Sockets were a poor abstraction on top of the existing
Unix model.

 sc> For context I have a hobby operating system, and I like hearing what
 sc> others find good in less common systems.

Cool!

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