Re: [9fans] What do I need for a small 9P2000 server @ Linux ?

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 6/28/07, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

>   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?

if you are on unix and don't *ever* intend to go to plan 9, reduce to
npfs, spfs, ixp

if you don't need threads, reduce to spfs, ixp

libspfs lets you do stuff like this (from xbootfs)
static void
fsinit(void)
{
        Spfile *file;
        root = spfile_alloc(NULL, "", 0555 | Dmdir, Qroot, &root_ops, NULL);
        root->parent = root;
        spfile_incref(root);
        root->atime = root->mtime = time(NULL);
        root->uid = root->muid = user;
        root->gid = user->dfltgroup;

        create_file(root, "ctl", 0644, Qctl, &ctl_ops, NULL, NULL);
        datafile = create_file(root, "data", 0444, Qdata, &data_ops,
NULL, NULL);
        datafile->length = filelen;
        create_file(root, "avail", 0666, Qavail, &avail_ops, NULL, NULL);
        file = create_file(root, "redir", 0444, Qredir, &redir_ops, NULL, NULL);
        /* make it too long, it matters not ... */
        file->length = 32;
}

if you don't need stuff like that, use libixp

or, if you want to read a nice, tight implementation of 9p in c, just
get libixp anyway. It's neat.

ron