From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010328034613.20C2F199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:46:03 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 758b0686-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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