From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:05:00 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnik Subject: Re: [9fans] What do I need for a small 9P2000 server @ Linux ? In-reply-to: <20070628174934.GF28917@kris.home> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1183079101.19286.6.camel@linux.site> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20070628133155.GB11624@nibiru.local> <13426df10706280820l13119c42r6b107e0eed489339@mail.gmail.com> <20070628173628.GA8212@nibiru.local> <20070628174934.GF28917@kris.home> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b38642a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:49 -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:36:29PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >Okay folks, grabbed npfs and spfs from CVS. > > Might I suggest you try libixp instead of npfs? Aside from .u > and auth, it does nearly everything that spfs does, only in > about 1/10th the size, and with much clearer code, in my > opinion. The API is based largely on lib9p. If you need > something that it doesn't have (threading support?), it should > be easy to add (I'd even be willing to add threading support, if > you tell me the threading API to use). > > http://www.suckless.org/wiki/libs/libixp Now I'm *completely* confused. ;-) So it seems that we have 4 choices: lib9client (part of Plan9 from userspace), npfs, spfs and now libixp. Are they completely different? Under which circumstances does each make the most sense? Thanks, Roman.