Re: [9fans] Taking plan9 concepts to *nix

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

This is an excellent idea, and one example of where 9P can work as a
language and architecture agnostic application interface.

You might want to look into the GSoC project to write an Inferno
plugin for Mozilla, I am afraid it doesn't have its own page in
http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/ yet, but bnext has posted about it in
the blog http://gsoc.cat-v.org/blog/ and he was discussing his work in
#plan9-gsoc just yesterday, so you might want to join and talk with
him about some coordination.

Best wishes

uriel

On 6/28/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I'd like to take some concepts of plan9 (ie. running servlets via
> 9P2000) to unix and other platforms.
>
> One contineously headache-causing application is Mozilla. It had
> become too fat, quite unmaintainable, indeterministic and often
> hanging. There's an project called nspluginwrapper which runs
> plugins in it's own process (invented to get binary crap like
> flash or acroread running on non-x86_32 platforms). For now it
> uses an (undocumened) unix-socket protocol for communication
> between browser and external plugin. Seems like a good starting
> point for showing the power of 9P2000 to the wide world ;-P
>
> The idea is: the browser exports an fs with the standard plan9
> graphical window and some additional (browser-specific) services.
> So from the view of the "plugin" (which now becomes an separate
> application), it's place in the browser is an graphical terminal
> with perhaps some additional features.
>
> I'm not yet confident enough w/ 9p programming and seeking for
> help. Would anylone like to help me ?
>
>
> cu
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