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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why do we need syspipe() ?
Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2009 15:45:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231458346.6916.84.camel@goose.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13b15213c66f11c7a7ab7696c8f85723@quanstro.net>


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:15 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > Although in the alternative universe I can see how implementing #X 
> > as *channels* capable of 9P messages, could enable things like mounting
> > them on external hosts and letting these hosts manipulate physical
> > devices attached to yours (I agree that remote mounting of the kernel
> > services, which do not correspond to physical devices, is less useful).
> > Just like exporting my *local* /srv can be a useful things at times.
> 
> you mean like this?
> 	import -E ssl minooka.coraid.com '#æ' /n/minookaæ

Well, I tend not to like the proliferation of exportfs', but may
be in this case it is actually better that what I had in mind.

Thanks,
Roman.






  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04  5:04 Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-04  6:56 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-05  4:39   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-05  6:20     ` Russ Cox
2009-01-05  7:28       ` lucio
2009-01-05 11:00         ` roger peppe
2009-01-08 23:36           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-06 17:40       ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-06 20:37         ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-06 23:13           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-06 23:15             ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-08 23:45               ` Roman V. Shaposhnik [this message]
2009-01-08 23:48                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-09  2:05                   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-09 12:54                     ` roger peppe
2009-01-07  3:48             ` lucio
2009-01-07  7:00       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-07  9:31         ` Charles Forsyth

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