Re: Future Linux devel. Kernels

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 00:19:44 EDT

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    Andi Kleen writes:
    >"Ron Van Dam" <rvandam@liwave.com> writes:

    >> Sharing devices over a network (not justs Disks with NBD,
    >> serial ports, sound cards, USB devices, etc)
    >> (Why buy multiple devices when I can share!)
    >
    > Sounds like a user space problem. See vmware for an example.

    Nah, that isn't the Plan 9 way. You just need the right kind of
    network filesystem access to get at /dev on a remote system.
    NFS won't do, since it just ships you the dev_t value.

    (or, ignoring odd operations, is this a client-side NFS problem?)

    One would also want to make a per-process /dev union mount.
    This gets you a /dev/audio that always produces local sound.
    It ruins the fun of a huge lab + /dev/audio + emacs executable.

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