Re: [9fans] Shared Library Service?

[Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:01:47AM -0400, LiteStar numnums wrote:
> 
>    Hello all,
>    Had an odd idea: shared library service...
>    Executables placed in,say, /lib/shsvc, would be executed with pipes
>    redirected to a mounted service (for now /n/shsvc).
>    The file server at /n/shvc simply has files for each library loaded.
>    An application that wishes to use the service
>    can simply open a file handle to /n/shvc/library & simply read/write
>    to the library file using a FastCGI/SCGI like
>    protocol. The file service could do some simple checks on the data
>    (making sure it's actually protocol data, &c),
>    and handle if a 'library' puked while working. This may not make as
>    much sense as I thought, since I am writing
>    this after only two hours sleep...

  This sounds a bit like what I had in mind for writing simple
  file servers. Basically the ammount of bookkeeping in lib9p
  is bit too much for simple things like having an rc script
  to serve a dynamic one-level tree, etc. 
  
  On a practical level it didn't quite pan out, though. The complexity
  of the scripts and such was enough of a reason to switch to C and
  use lib9p directly.
  
Thanks,
Roman.