Re: [9fans] Microsoft Opens WSL - also starring "plan9"

[Ron Minnich <rminnich@p9f.org>]

I've lost track of how many people tell me "xyz is using plan9" when
they mean "9p".

Just one of those things.

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have had a cursory look and based on the information from McAfee
> blog (link that moody posted), I am guessing the functionality of
> p9rdr.sys is similar to what brucee (Bruce Ellis) implemented some 20
> years ago in the wen.sys component of the Rangboom agent for Windows.
>
> There are a lot of historical legal strings attached to the use of
> Windows Installable Drivers and Windows Driver SDKs, which makes it
> risky to publish the source.  I would release it under MIT license, if
> I can get approval from MS (I've not looked at their requirements in
> years, so they might have already been relaxed).
>
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM Lucas Francesco
> <lucas.francesco93@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > They didn't open source the windows part that makes 9p avaliable as NT kernel file connection method tho :/
> >
> > We're almost there /hj
> >
> > On Tue, 20 May 2025, 00:15 Skip Tavakkolian, <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> MS has released WSL under the MIT license. Local file serving done by a "plan9" file server over 9P.
> >>
> >> https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
> >>
> >> https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/tree/2.5.7
> >>
> >>
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