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From: "Richard Bilson" <rcbilson@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pm/Plan 9 kernel in user space
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:39:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <676c3c4f0610191339n3a7ea6e2q249fdaaa2b025645@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d815a00b264b72daeeeeb0d252de831e@mail.gmx.net>

On 10/19/06, Sascha Retzki <sretzki@gmx.de> wrote:
> I can comment on that. Getting the facts, Microsoft once wrote some API so that anyone, with the right SDK, could write virtual file system drivers - they actually presented that stuff via a ftpfs, which made me optimistic that, if one gets this SDK, 9p4win32 could be written.

It seems like if you already have access to the Windows DDK, then

    http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/

has the rest of the pieces needed to do such a thing, and examples.

Of course, I can't confirm that it actually works. I took a look at
the examples and decided that I didn't have the stomach for it.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-17 23:31 jorge-plan9
2006-10-18  0:08 ` Andrew Simmons
2006-10-18  7:34   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-18  0:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-18 23:05   ` Georg Lehner
2006-10-18 23:13     ` Russ Cox
2006-10-19  9:06     ` Richard Miller
2006-10-19  9:50     ` C H Forsyth
2006-10-19 20:13 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-19 20:39   ` Richard Bilson [this message]
2006-10-19 22:21   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-19 16:06 Richard Miller

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