From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2126B32A-D8E6-4B95-912B-6A033D14A23C@gmail.com> References: <2126B32A-D8E6-4B95-912B-6A033D14A23C@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:21:19 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] simple venti demo: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e3dbff6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > Isn't p9p POSIX enough? =A0Confused I am, but wasn't that the point of p9= p? > p9p gives you a runtime environment just like Plan 9s. From the point of view of a programmer you can even pretend you're not in a POSIX world.It's wonderful but there are times when people want the functionality (e.g. venti server) but not using p9p libraries, but POSIX libraries. We hit that issue a lot in the early days of xcpu. The first few versions were very much p9p code. Users complained about the need for the extra libraries and unfamiliar programming environment. Later versions of xcpu were all POSIX, no p9p at all. Hope I said that right. ron