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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:37:35 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What do I need for a small 9P2000 server @ Linux ?
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On 6/29/07, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:49 -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:36:29PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > >Okay folks, grabbed npfs and spfs from CVS.
> >
> > Might I suggest you try libixp instead of npfs? Aside from .u
> > and auth, it does nearly everything that spfs does, only in
> > about 1/10th the size, and with much clearer code, in my
> > opinion. The API is based largely on lib9p. If you need
> > something that it doesn't have (threading support?), it should
> > be easy to add (I'd even be willing to add threading support, if
> > you tell me the threading API to use).
> >
> > http://www.suckless.org/wiki/libs/libixp
>
>   Now I'm *completely* confused. ;-) So it seems that we have 4
> choices: lib9client (part of Plan9 from userspace), npfs, spfs
> and now libixp. Are they completely different? Under which
> circumstances does each make the most sense?

There are many more choices, see http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations

uriel