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Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages
From: "Joel Salomon" <salomo3@cooper.edu>
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Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2003 18:07:30 -0400
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>>Really? And where is that when I'm running Drawterm for example?
>
> where do you think?  drawterm sets up and maintains a namespace
> which is exported to the cpu server just as a p9 terminal does.
>
from drawterm(8):
> drawterm serves its local name space as well as some devices (the
> keyboard, mouse, and screen) to a remote CPU server

Seems to me that this is a *minimal* namespace - /dev/draw, mouse, and
cons; as well as some serving of the local (windows or *n?x) file system.

VNC might have been a better example - it doesn't appear to provide
*anything* but the keyboard/mouse/screen

--Joel