From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:15:47 -0400 From: Kris Maglione To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] What do I need for a small 9P2000 server @ Linux ? Message-ID: <20070628191547.GJ28917@kris.home> References: <20070628133155.GB11624@nibiru.local> <13426df10706280820l13119c42r6b107e0eed489339@mail.gmail.com> <20070628173628.GA8212@nibiru.local> <20070628174934.GF28917@kris.home> <13426df10706281152o455e6aeh2a3370011de37828@mail.gmail.com> <20070628185753.GH28917@kris.home> <20070628190339.GD9717@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rmUrFcWP4LYae1gV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070628190339.GD9717@nibiru.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8afcc33e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --rmUrFcWP4LYae1gV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:03:39PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >What does this exactly mean ? See 9pfile(1). lib9p has a feature to do most of the work of=20 managing trees, especially walking and cloning. It's convenient=20 in many circumstances, and works very well for things like=20 ramfs, but is not very useful when you provide a synthetic=20 filesystem that represents program state, or the like. In that=20 case, you'd have to manage two instances of the date if you were=20 to use 9pfile. I've been meaning to experiment with some methods of doing=20 similar on top of libixp, as well as providing some more=20 convenience functions for common, complex things, but haven't=20 gotten to it yet. (There are a few of them used in wmii already,=20 just not migrated to libixp). --=20 Kris Maglione A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants. --rmUrFcWP4LYae1gV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGhAjjseQZD8Aui4wRApYmAJ9IVohsqq6v9dRtbzptepb8HV6bOACfQXEM tdZw42cfLL/Flr4I+Pnvouk= =HH7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rmUrFcWP4LYae1gV--