From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>, "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
Cc: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, orbit-list@gnome.org,
korbit-cvs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:42:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001214204237.A468@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A31BC6D.1CFB5221@haque.net> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012121719180.20891-100000@www.nondot.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012121719180.20891-100000@www.nondot.org>; from Chris Lattner on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:26:26PM -0600
Hi!
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
> >
> > Ben Ford wrote:
> > > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl???
> >
>
> Precisely... but also, there could be a case where perl would make
> sense. Consider an FTP filesystem. There performance is not dictated by
> the speed of the language, it's limited by bandwidth. It could make sense
> to write your almighty FTPfs like this:
>
> 1. Prototype it in Perl, get all the bugs out.
> 2. Rewrite in C in userspace, get all the bugs out.
> 3. recompile/relink in kernel space with no source modifications
> 4. ship product. :)
Bad example, as (with codafs), you can do this safely & nicely without
korbit. See http://uservfs.sourceforge.net/
Pavel
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Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-08 23:10 ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit Chris Lattner
2000-12-09 4:45 ` Ben Ford
2000-12-09 5:00 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-09 5:39 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09 10:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-12-14 0:21 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 1:11 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 1:48 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 2:53 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-12-14 3:12 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 3:36 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-12-14 11:46 ` Michael Livshin
2000-12-14 17:30 ` Elliot Lee
2000-12-14 4:23 ` Chip Salzenberg
2000-12-14 4:28 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 4:42 ` Chip Salzenberg
2000-12-14 4:47 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 4:52 ` Chip Salzenberg
2000-12-14 5:15 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 9:23 ` Oystein Viggen
2000-12-14 5:22 ` David Feuer
2000-12-14 8:04 ` josef höök
2000-12-14 8:09 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 13:53 ` josef höök
2000-12-14 2:42 ` [Korbit-cvs] " Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 3:08 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 3:19 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 3:42 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 3:52 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 4:24 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 4:41 ` CORBA vs 9P Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 4:57 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 5:04 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 10:02 ` [Korbit-cvs] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit Alan Cox
2000-12-14 10:10 ` Larry McVoy
2000-12-14 17:38 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 17:33 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 2:06 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 2:53 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 3:29 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 3:42 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 4:05 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 4:14 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 4:45 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 5:00 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 5:56 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 6:23 ` [Korbit-cvs] " Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 7:23 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 18:03 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 19:11 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-14 22:10 ` [Korbit-cvs] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit (and ioctl must die!) Mike Coleman
2000-12-14 9:23 ` ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit josef höök
2000-12-14 9:30 ` Larry McVoy
2000-12-14 20:02 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-15 10:25 ` josef höök
2000-12-15 15:54 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-15 20:10 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-15 20:26 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-15 20:37 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-15 22:19 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-16 0:19 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-18 20:29 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-18 20:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-18 20:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-18 21:57 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-19 0:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-19 8:42 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-19 9:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-18 21:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-18 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 22:13 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-18 8:27 ` David Ford
2000-12-14 16:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-12-14 16:45 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-14 16:49 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-14 17:23 ` [Korbit-cvs] " Fredrik Vraalsen
2000-12-14 17:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-12-17 23:42 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-18 20:39 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-09 11:59 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-09 12:29 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09 15:50 ` Dietmar Kling
2000-12-09 20:59 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-10 2:18 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-10 2:58 ` Dietmar Kling
2000-12-10 3:22 ` David Ford
2000-12-11 13:38 ` Martin Dalecki
2000-12-11 13:47 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-12-11 17:48 ` ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit ( getting off topic) Matthew D. Pitts
2000-12-11 17:18 ` ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit Alexander Viro
2000-12-11 17:50 ` Dietmar Kling
2000-12-11 18:53 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-11 19:00 ` Dietmar Kling
2000-12-11 20:21 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09 14:16 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-12 23:26 ` Chris Lattner
2000-12-13 9:42 ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-14 19:42 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2000-12-09 5:51 ` David Ford
2000-12-10 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-11 22:42 ` Michael Rothwell
2000-12-12 15:05 ` josef höök
2000-12-12 15:18 ` Michael Rothwell
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2000-12-09 0:49 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-12-10 7:56 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-12-14 17:24 Chris Lattner
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