Re: [9fans] win32 rx server, 9pany ?

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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I started down the path of porting factotum to windows
and got side tracked, mostly because I was trying to
figure out how to make it work for exploder and other
apps.  However, we've ported most of the libraries so
if you want to make it just work as is, you could probably
get it working fairly quickly.

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From: steve.simon@snellwilcox.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] win32 rx server, 9pany ?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:22:48 +0100
Message-ID: <d85b90c4d3eb2a121a87980eb5fda06d@yourdomain.dom>

Hi,

I want an rx demon (BSD rshd) to run on Win32. This
could use rhosts type authentication but p9any
would be a better solution. I was thinking
about hacking the u9fs source to extract the p9any
authentication module into a stand-alone program
which my rxd could exec().

This starts to feel a bit like factotum, I could
have listen exec rxd with a known file descriptor
attached to factotum - Win32/Unix file descriptor
inheritance being the closest thing I have to plan9
file namespace.

Anyone else thought about / done anything like this.

-Steve