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Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike

Posted by Roblimo on from the in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line dept.

Today we return to our Slashdot interview roots with a "Call for questions" for Rob "Commander" Pike, who has been involved in the development of many modern programming concepts, GUI advances, character sets, and operating systems. We'll email 10 - 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Rob and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

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  1. He's NOT a Unix co-creator by hruntrung · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jeez, someone, click on the fuckin link in the post with his name. He's not a Unix co-creator. He worked a lot on Plan 9, and wrote a bitmap windowing system for Unix. But he's not a Unix co-creator. The creators of Unix are Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

  2. Article theft by Zedrick · · Score: 5, Informative

    The operating systems link goes to encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com, which is a scam-site that steals articles from other sites, in this case from Wikipedia. The only thing they've added are ads. The original can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9

  3. Re:Biggest problem with Unix by CondeZer0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think that he and the Bell Labs folks already answered those questions over 10 years ago:

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
    (See specially the first section: Motivation)

    uriel

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  4. Re:Biggest problem with Unix by mikefe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the refuse to umount if there are users in the mount is part of the POSIX or SUS specifications.

    Linux does not have a problem with it. That's why it has the -l option.

    -l Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierarchy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as it is not busy anymore. (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)

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