From: Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A couple questions about /dev/draw and /dev/kbmap
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 09:12:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG2UyHoT_1XHrVEJeCL1gSCjb_SUnoFuM9FfWzUM8F8iFdJ=bA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65cd39f4d41d55c39717cb717a9582ac@felloff.net>
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In that case, is there any way to get the current max packet size that 9p
will allow for
a read or write, or to determine if you're drawing to a local machine or
not? I'm not seeing anything obvious under /dev or /env.
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:45 PM, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:
> you wont have that limitation on devdraw on the local machine. but
> over 9p, your reads and writes are limited by the iounit of the
> channel over which 9p is transfered.
>
> the reson for having a iounit is that you'r not the only one doing
> stuff over the channel. you chunk stuff up in packets, so multiple
> things can appear as simultanious even tho theres only one serial
> channel. the bigger you make the packets, the bigger the latency
> for concurrent packets wanting to be transmitted.
>
> for the keyboard stuff. you cant do that with /dev/cons. drawterm
> only gives you runes, but no kbmap (you'r probably seeing the cpu
> servers kbmap, not the one in drawterm). in 9front [1,2], theres
> /dev/kbd [3] which also gives you button states.
>
> [1] http://9front.org/
> [2] http://drawterm.9front.org/
> [3] http://man.9front.org/8/kbdfs
>
> --
> cinap
>
>
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- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-05 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-04 20:20 Dave MacFarlane
2016-05-04 21:53 ` hiro
2016-05-05 2:45 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-05 13:12 ` Dave MacFarlane [this message]
2016-05-05 13:16 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-05-05 13:56 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-05 16:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-05-05 15:38 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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