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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:46:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101210094607.GF4184@fangle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6KFx3fWYzDta7bnY16aZAx8eK38KQRYo-4pTC@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote:
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:34:41 +0200
> From: Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky@gmail.com>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9?
>
> Suppose you're writing an app such as a multiprotocol instant messenger or a
> mediaplayer that supports multiple container formats and codecs. It's a good

You build them all into the synthetic files server, but only activate the
needed ones as commanded through a control channel or file.  In such
case, you can define the communication mechanism and may do better
than with loadable modules, where you can never be certain that they'll
be available.

++L



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10  9:34 Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-12-10  9:46 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2010-12-10  9:58   ` hiro
2010-12-10  9:46 ` hiro
2010-12-10 10:01   ` Lucio De Re
2010-12-10 10:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-12-10 11:21   ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-12-11  1:43     ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-12-11 19:02       ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-12-10 15:52   ` David Leimbach
2010-12-10 20:01     ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-12-10 20:33       ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-12-11 19:01         ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2010-12-10 11:47 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-12-10 13:23 ` erik quanstrom

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