From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Elisp 9P? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <050af81d-11b5-b14f-d328-4ad4de89795c@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545196813 5778 195.159.176.226 (19 Dec 2018 05:20:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 05:20:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 To: Eric Lindblad , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 19 06:20:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gZUHA-0001Oc-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:20:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZUJH-0000rR-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:22:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZUIf-0000rG-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZUIb-0005bV-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:60912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZUIb-0005ZF-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E44160A55; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 9k5rR97mbv5X; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCC7160A59; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Fj_Tt255RmLj; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A37F7160A55; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:21:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231916 Archived-At: 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?