Re: [9fans] sources.cs.bell-labs.com

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

> Is this just 'listen -N' in fossilcons(8)?
> Given that listen and users are fossil-wide, rather
> than fsys-wide, it seems like duplicating what
> sources is doing at a "normal" Plan 9 installation
> would involve running a second fossil. If -N were
> on open (which seems reasonably close to open
> having -A), that wouldn't be the case. Correct?

That depends on what you mean by "duplicating what
sources is doing."  Sources runs two fossils (one it boots
from and one it serves to the world) in two different
authentication domains.  You could pull that off with
a single fossil instance (i.e., 9P and its clients could deal
with seeing different authentication domains for different
file systems), but it would be a fair amount of work to get
everything lined up right.  Much easier just to run
two different fossils.  Putting -N on open would be just
one of many changes.

If you had just one authentication domain, then
having an open -N would let you make one of your
file systems not require authentication, like sources,
but still use a single 9P port.  I'm not sure how useful
that really is.

Russ