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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@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 15:38:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmLw-jBsa5GRCb7qTBQ7DhFRxy=3O=gx1yTuAhPbDr0UfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG2UyHoT_1XHrVEJeCL1gSCjb_SUnoFuM9FfWzUM8F8iFdJ=bA@mail.gmail.com>

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The beauty of it is the uniformity and not making any assumptions about the
specifics of what's underneath; notice starting rio inside a rio window.

http://herpolhode.com/rob/lec5.pdf

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:12 AM Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> - Dave
>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-05 15:38 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
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 [this message]

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