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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Lindblad <lindblad@gmx.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp 9P?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <050af81d-11b5-b14f-d328-4ad4de89795c@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-8f817bf2-96b1-491a-b5d7-c008bb4ec1e5-1545175701326@3c-app-mailcom-bs06>

Eric Lindblad wrote:
> "It makes no sense to put this feature into Emacs, which is the wrong place for
> it.  The right place for it is in the kernel (Linux or the Hurd), so that all
> the application programs will be able to use it."

This sounds reasonable. v9fs has been in the Linux kernel since 2.6.14 and that 
should let GNU/Linux application programs use 9P without modification. So why 
would we want to modify apps like Emacs to implement 9P separately? What am I 
missing here?



  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-19  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-18 23:28 Elisp 9P? Eric Lindblad
2018-12-19  5:21 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-12-19 13:54   ` Eric Lindblad
2019-01-08 19:05 ` Daniel Pittman
2019-01-23 13:50   ` Basil L. Contovounesios

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