[9fans] Nine4Linux [WAS: Glendix?]

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> wrote:

Hi folks,

just a few thoughts about that issue: 

I think the best approach for supplying an plan9 environment 
on an Linux kernel can be done completely in userland, maybe 
utilize some kernel parts (local namespaces, etc), a little
bit like usermode-linux/coLinux or Oberon4Linux work.

* an special libc, which provides an Plan9-API (instead GNU)
  (uclibc could be a good starting point)
* GCC can be reusused, all builds work in an sysroot'ed 
  cross-environment.
* the p9-libc could either do 9P handling completely by itself
  or use v9fs (depending on system configuration). 
* setting up v9fs and local namespaces for unprivileged users
  could be done by an separate server, maybe with some bit 
  additional kernel support
* for better performance, some special filesystems (eg /net
  or /draw) could be implemented either inside p9libc or 
  maybe as an special kernel filesystem.


To get started, maybe some of you p9 gurus could provide me
some example source for for p9 applications, and I'll try to
get uclibc tweaked to make it source-compatible.


cu
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