Re: [9fans] Porting to plan9 / PF_UNIX

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

You might want to look at cpu(1) (for Plan 9) and http;//www.xcpu.org
(for Plan 9 and other systems.)

And there is also taskfs by Kenji Arisawa, I think the latest version
of you can find in /n/sources/contrib/arisawa/grid.tgz (Kenji, would
be nice if you added an INDEX file to your sources/contrib dir)

And finally taskbag by Nashi of which the only version I can find is
in http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/nashi/9grid/taskbag.tgz

Nashi: *please*, could you put that stuff in sources/contrib like
everyone else? It is already hard enough to find things as it is.

And as nemo pointed out, srv(1) is probably what you were asking for.

Best wishes

uriel

On 4/14/07, Lluís Batlle <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm the developer of a Unix program that may be useful in plan9, and
> as an exercise, I'd like it to build in plan9 native.
>
> Now, I've written it assuming POSIX (int signals, PF_UNIX available,
> BSD sockets API, ...). I know more or less some details on plan9 (per
> process namespaces, network not in a library to link with, notes,
> ...), but I barely know the 'common' use of the environment.
>
> My concern is that I need some local processes to communicate to a
> local server. Now I use a SOCK_STREAM PF_UNIX in a path in /tmp, where
> I suppose I can write. I think it's something I can suppose in a POSIX
> system, but not in plan9.
> How would you connect local processes (which can be launched at any
> time) with a central server in plan9? Making that central server serve
> a filesystem, where the clients write/read?
> If I knew what's the path I should follow, I could think more easily
> on a proper API for POSIX and Plan9 for my program.
>
> I may not have not worked in plan9 enough to deserve your attention,
> but I hope a quick answer (even in the form of "man ___") will not
> take much time.
>
> btw, the program I'd like to be able to run in plan9 is
> http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ . I wrote it because I
> couldn't find anything similar to fit my needs, and maybe in plan9 you
> already have something quick-and-useful for that purpose, and 'ts'
> would not make any sense in p9 now. That's also something I'd be glad
> to know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lluís.
>