Security in Plan 9 (2002)
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#2Interesting related topic - Inferno OS security, discussed in this Phrack magazine article: http://phrack.org/issues/58/12.html
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#3The site seems to be down.
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#4The site seems to be down.
Yeah I couldn’t access it either, Wayback archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220403200715/https://9p.io/sys...
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#5The site seems to be down.
That is the best security.
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#6The site seems to be down.
Hosted on a plan9 system
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the best security.
Next up in the blog schedule: "Performance and Scaling in Plan 9"
I'd actually love to see such a paper. Plan 9 threading is more like coroutines, but it is certainly possible to run multi-core/multi-process code.
That said, I can't say I've seen anyone try to write anything that scales like nginx on Plan 9. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened, I've just not seen anyone talk about it too much.
It did run on IBM's Blue Gene for a bit (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix07/posters/vanhens...) but as you can see that was some 15 years ago, and I'm not sure we're talking about anything even remotely similar to a single computer handling tons of concurrent connections.
Plan 9 can also run Go binaries, but, again, not really sure we're talking about the same thing as nginx-level scale.
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#10The site seems to be down.
It seems to go down every time something on it is submitted to Hacker News. Give it a few hours and try again.