Re: [9fans] 2 things

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

> if you need "middleware" you can use inferno as such. snd your apps will
> be really portable. give it a try if you didn´t

although that's similar to what i do myself, more practically, the plan 9 ports environment shows
that it's reasonably possible to provide a C programming environment with
the small set of Plan 9 primitives on a range of decidedly heterogeneous systems.

this still doesn't quite address the question of how the extended functionality
attributed to SRB might be provided in the Plan 9 environment.
a general answer would be `the design of name spaces to represent those services',
but it would probably be interesting to look in detail at a few examples at least,
to help make the discussion more concrete.  (it needs to be approached from
the application's point of view, in what it's intended to achieve,
not `how would you do SRB's XYZ operation'.)