> It’s shared mutable state with barely any error handling possibilities. And th...

		goranmoomin on Sept 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the working of X11 from the ground u... > It’s shared mutable state with barely any error handling possibilities. And that makes me think about scoped file systems... (gotten the idea from global & scoped variables) Since the biggest advantage of ‘everything is a file’ is that it allows a consistent API for manipulating data, why didn’t this happen?

plan9 namespaces and user filesystems along with bind mounting achieved this sort of scoping.