From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:22:52 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c992d8f2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:54:57PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> One nice thing about drawterm is it lets you export the iphone's >> interfaces to Plan 9 -- that could lead to much more interesting > > I doubt you'll be able to do that with the insane restrictions Apple puts on > officially-sanctioned apps. You'd have to work via the iPhone jailbreak to > expose anything other than a very small, sandboxed directory on the phone via > drawterm. > That makes zero sense. As per the VNC discussion, there's already precedent for exporting screen and interfaces. That does leave room for apple to restrict access to camera, location, orientation, etc. -- but I see no reason why they would. -eric