From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920706280959y3ab0ab5dveb82a158af21894d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:59:27 +0200 From: Uriel To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Taking plan9 concepts to *nix In-Reply-To: <20070628132929.GA11624@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070628132929.GA11624@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89bd6ffa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > http://patches.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >