[9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

> it isn't plumbing, but export/import, and it's useful.
> i had a usable sound system on my r3000 indigo, but my PC had none.
> on the pc, i imported the indigo's /dev and played sounds that way.
> i could imagine uses even a continent away (alarm system imports remote
> /dev and announces trouble). next door might be more useful.

I personally would like to see a lot more in the way of remote
resource access using 9p and I'm working towards that by writing
software for windows, linux and android.  Its a slightly different
use case than typical plan9 setup: ie my terminal has some
devices and I push them to a cpu server so programs run there
can access local resources.  Instead you have resources on several
machines that you own (and who doesnt own several machines these
days, heck even my non-tech relatives do) and you import them
to use them as necessary.  I've been playing around with sound
a lot as a starting point but I am hoping to move on to other
devices soon.  In my current prototypes I can import sound devices
from (android, windows, linux oss) onto another (android, windows,
linux oss) machine and either replace the current audio subsystem
or offer the remote audio as an additional audio device.

Why should all of your machines need a dvd drive, sound card, sdcard
reader, etc.?

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com