From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pm/Plan 9 kernel in user space From: "Sascha Retzki" Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:13:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20061017233134.GA19696@debian31m> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd7790dc-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Hello! > Hai, > P.S.: ahh - and: how about 9P Clients and Servers for MS-Win*? I can comment on that. Getting the facts, Microsoft once wrote some API so that anyone, with the right SDK, could write virtual file system drivers - they actually presented that stuff via a ftpfs, which made me optimistic that, if one gets this SDK, 9p4win32 could be written. The big pro about that would be that a 9p-client would be 100% integrated in the Operating System - you would be able to see the 9p-connection/server in 'My Computer' like any other drive (virtual or not). I think that's what Nokia uses for their PC-Suite btw, in case you are a customer of this great company and their great.. eh.. Anyway Then I saw the price of that SDK. It's arround hundred-and-something United States bucks, just for the SDK. If you are seriously gonna look into this, drop me a private mail and I will search for the presentations I collected on that topic, etc. For servers tho, it could be a normal userspace program listening on a socket. Boring but possibly easier (cheaper) Mfg, Sascha