i like how the plan9 system calls list can fit on an index card.
I guess that i'm then wondering, to what extent are the profusion of api calls on bsd/linux (by comparison) due to which of the following: a) legacy of evolving richer apis while supporting older ones b) poorer factoring of abstractions c) different special casing for various performance or security related primitives?
This makes me wonder, what would this look like for plan9? Just FS-related syscalls, and that's it? Curious...