From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <398A5F86.7FEDB4F9@lurcher.org> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:15:34 +0100 From: Nick Gorham MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] database fileservice References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5f99ca2-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Stephen Harris wrote: > Unfortunately I'm something of a beginner myself with Plan 9. > It would probably be a good project to learn Plan 9 with, given that > you are already familiar with ODBC. I haven't touched ODBC in years, > and it looked like for me it would be a learning experience for recent > ODBC more so than for Plan9. I'm going to try to port a database > (postgres) instead because I've been interested in its internals anyway, > and I think it would be nice to have a standalone database for Plan 9. Ok, I have a box that I was going to rebuild, I will try and install plan 9 on it and see what happens. > Yep, this *may be* a real problem though, since as far as I know > there's no way to load shared libraries in Plan 9, it just hasn't > needed it so far (which says a lot). You could rewrite a little to > eliminate the dynamic loading, and instead just compile in the drivers > you want, but as you say that would defeat the purpose of the driver > manager. Creative solutions to this would probably be welcomed by all. Well there may be a more appropiate method, perhaps opening them as a device of some such method, I must read more of the white papers first. > Everything you do from now on will be more fun - Windows 95 installation -- Nick Gorham "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence, There's a knob called brightness, but it doesn't work." - Eugene P. Gallagher