Re: [9fans] inferno & plan9

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> srvstyx at http://www.chunder.com/plan9/

cool.  i like the idea of using inferno to do its own authentication
by bridging through to plan 9 via #C and /srv.  that was the bit i
balked at doing in C.

i had a 30 minute attempt at getting it working under our inferno -
almost but not quite, and no time left until monday.  i think that for
our stuff the auth stuff can remain the same and srvstyx can just
become a tiny program that posts its stdin to /srv.  (but i might be
mistaken 'cos that's the bit that's not working).

> we chose not to try and look like 9P2000 because the
> inferno security model is different and serves us well.
> there is no auth machine in the picture.

we still use the inferno authentication model, despite using 9p2000
for the file protocol.  it's orthogonal to plan 9's i think, as it
encapsulates the stream rather than being embedded in the protocol.

  cheers,
    rog.