From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 22:01:24 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <20081110052646.GA22532@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37d00f3e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Right now, there's an discussion about moving things into their own > processes (eg. one process per tab) @ dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, > and I just digged out my (old but still unrecognized) point of using > 9P as IPC and splitting off the currently monolithic app into a bunch > of fileservers. maybe replace the underlying code for XPCOM and ease them into it. you'll need an IDL compiler that generates 9p server templates -- most of which is in 9p(2) -- and the stub functions for the client side. instead of searching the registry for COM objects, look in /srv, etc. that said, it seems leaving the complexity of COM in place is a backward step.