Re: [9fans] o9fs

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

OK, here's the process for giving it to the OpenBSD guys:
1) Replace strcpy()/strcat() with strlcpy()/strlcat() and don't write  
your own allocator, use theirs
2) Go to Security
3) Have them check out the code
4) Give the code to some licensing gurus
5) Have them examine the license (Lucent Public License)
6) Go back to Security
7) Have them run a long series of test cases
8) You'll probably get a long list of security holes
9) Fix them and give it back to Security
10) They'll check it out, and it'll become part of OpenBSD!
11) Wait 15 years
12) The team will find a security hole if your driver is run at  
startup, and there will be an increment on their number of holes at  
startup message on their website :-)

Now to become serious:
This will be nice. At least Linux is not the only real UNIX anymore :-)

On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Iruata Souza wrote:

> Hello 9fans,
>
> As this years Google Summer of Code 2007 project mentored by the Plan
> 9 community I started writing a 9P client in form of a filesystem
> driver for the OpenBSD operating system. The code is not ready for
> daily use yet but maybe some of you would like to take a look or even
> test it.
> I set up a little placeholder for the project at
> http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/iru/o9fs with the info one will need to get
> the thing running.
>
> Best,
> iru