From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:46:07 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20101210094607.GF4184@fangle.proxima.alt.za> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ab74486-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > 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