[9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?

[9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?

[Jack Johnson]

Hi everyone,

I came across Ronald Minnich's 9P work for Unixes, but I'm just
curious, has anyone attempted the same for Windows, Macintosh, etc?  I
realize the uses might be more limited, but it would seem that if a 9P
client is easier to write than, say, an SMB server for Plan 9, it
could be extremely useful for file service in a heterogenous
environment.

Not that I'm against homogeneity....

-Jack

[9fans] Re: 9P clients for other OSes?

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Jack Johnson wrote:
> I came across Ronald Minnich's 9P work for Unixes, but I'm just
> curious, has anyone attempted the same for Windows, Macintosh, etc?  I
> realize the uses might be more limited, but it would seem that if a 9P
> client is easier to write than, say, an SMB server for Plan 9, it
> could be extremely useful for file service in a heterogenous
> environment.

Check out Inferno.

Re: [9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Jack Johnson wrote:

> I came across Ronald Minnich's 9P work for Unixes, but I'm just
> curious, has anyone attempted the same for Windows, Macintosh, etc?  I
> realize the uses might be more limited, but it would seem that if a 9P
> client is easier to write than, say, an SMB server for Plan 9, it
> could be extremely useful for file service in a heterogenous
> environment.

9p is so well designed ... it is easy to write for.

I think it would make sense for the other OSes.

What I really wish is that embedded stuff (digital cameras, etc. ) talked
9p instead of whatever gross protocol they do. But if we get lots of ports
that becomes somewhat less unlikely.

ron

Re: [9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> What I really wish is that embedded stuff (digital cameras, etc. ) talked
> 9p instead of whatever gross protocol they do.

Indeed.  I've often wished there were a standard device interface
(more or less like 9P) so one could have *real* plug-and-play across
*all* platforms without having to write device drivers more than
once per device.  If this industry were ultra-rational it could
happen, but unfortunately it's in a rush to make profits using
existing crufty platforms, a very short-sighted view about which
nothing can be done, apparently.

Re: [9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?

[Russ Cox]

> I came across Ronald Minnich's 9P work for Unixes, but I'm just
> curious, has anyone attempted the same for Windows, Macintosh, etc?  I
> realize the uses might be more limited, but it would seem that if a 9P
> client is easier to write than, say, an SMB server for Plan 9, it
> could be extremely useful for file service in a heterogenous
> environment.

someone in france (at inria or univ-paris8?) announced an smb
client, though i haven't seen the code.

i'm thinking hard about writing a translator for plan 9
and unix to go between smb, 9p, nfs, sfs, and maybe afs.
(i have too many file services i'd like to connect to.)
we'll see.  probably in the fall.

russ