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The easiest hackwould be to change /sys/src/9/boot/boopip.c's
connecttcp() to fork off a filter to do what the fcall
module used to.  Look at the funcion filter() in /sys/src/cmd/cpu.c.
It wouldn't necessarily be fast but it would be functional.  If
noone gets to it before I get back to MH (a week or two from now),
I'll do it myself.

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I wrote:
> u9fs will not work as root file system for diskless clients without some
> changes to the kernel.  Since u9fs serves via tcp not il protocol, you would
> have to interpose something like aux/fcall to reconstruct 9p message
> boundaries.

And Steve Kotsopoulos <steve@nevex.com> wrote:

> is this something new with the 3rd edition?
> under 2nd edition I'm using a u9fs fileserver just fine

Yes, the old Plan 9 had fcall(3) stream module within the kernel which
the boot process pushed onto a tcp connection.  This is gone, along
with all kernel stream stuff.

-- Richard Miller
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