Re: [9fans] magic loopback

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

i realize that venti doesn't speak 9p at all. but what i don't understand is
while what you say is theoretically true, there is currently no way
to tell venti to post to /srv.  venti demands and address (-a) that it announce(2)s.

why does venti not have a -s argument?  and, since you mention it,
why doesn't venti use 9p?  it would seem that authentication would be
critical if you're running venti on a separate machine from the fossil.
and it would seem that using announce wouldn't make sense if one
always ran fossil and venti on the same machine.

so what's the part that i'm missing?

- erik

On Tue Sep 19 03:08:52 CDT 2006, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> > if fossl+venti on the
> > same machine is a common setup, shouldn't they should be able to communicate without the 
> > network stack?
> 
> Venti doesn't speak 9p2000 (it has its own RPC protocol), so it can't
> just be mounted from a local /srv like normal Plan 9 services.
>