Re: [9fans] 9P on android

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

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> Hi Eric!
> I know this thread is a little old now, but I wanted to take a look
> into the same thing.
>
> 9P on Android!! Its something that could turn out to be an asset to my
> project here, that I intend to do.. what's the latest update on it?
> Can Google Android be used as a 9P server too, instead of just a java
> or php or javascript-based client that connects to a Plan 9 Styx
> server? There is this project called npfs (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs/ ) but I have never tried running
> a 9P fileserver and so have not a clear idea on the details here.

Npfs is in C.  You could make java bindings to it, but it would
probably be more work than it's worth.

I've been using a few 9p servers from android.  I have
a java library that does 9p service that I'm using.  Here's
some code I published that includes the library:

   http://9fans.net/archive/2009/10/269

Let me know if you have any questions.

> Rahul Murmuria
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is source to your application available anywhere?  I'm getting a
>> Android tablet and wanted to do some 9P/Plan9 hacking for it and it
>> sounds like you have a good starting point.
>>
>>     -eric
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I used Charles Forsyth's 9P implementation in Java (styx-n-9p) to start a
>>> small 9P graphical browser on Android, some weeks ago, and it seems to work
>>> very well.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David du Colombier
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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