Re: [9fans] P9P on Solaris

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> I know it's been a while, but that got me farther.  The
> odd thing is that I had already played with the magic
> define, but it seems that __sun__ wasn't getting set.

Bug in 9c.  Fixed and pushed.

> - There's also a discrepancy between the V1 inode
> defined in ffs.h and the one defined in the Solaris
> header files.  It ends up messing up the UID and
> GID fields.

Please compare against the BSD sources if you get
a chance -- I hope I just misread the data structure.

> the inodes and the directory entries.  It basically
> looks at the magic number and if it would be correct
> swapped, we take that as good enough and set a flag
> to swap everything.

Great, thanks.

> - Because I'm introducing venti into a UNIX environment
> instead of putting a UNIX machine in a Plan 9 environment,
> I need to at least have the option of traditional
> superuser behavior.  So I added an insecure (-i) flag
> to vnfs.  It turns off the mapping from UID/GID 0 to
> -1.  Then in ffs.c, I allowed the traditional uid 0
> gets all access.

It's interesting you view that as Plan 9-specific.
I was just mimicking the usual Unix NFS behavior.

Russ