Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

that was me.  the u9fs is for 9P2000 although it
supports 9P1 for backwards compatibility and testing.
the 9auth is inspired by pace willisson (sp?)'s 
freebsd "il over raw sockets" auth server but not
much of his code remains, if any.

both are tcp only, running out of inetd, so they
don't depend on the freebsd il patches.  the biggest
shortcoming is the lack of a portable way to implement
append-only files.  freebsd (and presumably the other
unix clones) take append-only to mean "only appends
succeed" rather than "all writes are treated as
appends", and there's no standard way to enable even this.

these programs aren't online, but i'll put them up next
week (i'm away from the freebsd machine) for the
interested parties.

russ