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The Art of Unix Programming
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Unix Programming - Problems in the Design of Unix - Unix Has Too Many Different Kinds of Names

Unix Has Too Many Different Kinds of Names

Unix unified files and local devices — they're all just byte streams. But network devices accessed through sockets have different semantics in a different namespace. Plan 9 demonstrates that files can be smoothly unified with both local and remote (network) devices, and all of these things can be managed through a namespace that is dynamically adjustable per-user and even per-program.


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