From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 things From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:44:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40710060318t2694834dgc4d4ec16cdd368d4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb362f3a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > if you need "middleware" you can use inferno as such. snd your apps wil= l > be really portable. give it a try if you didn=C2=B4t 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 functio= nality attributed to SRB might be provided in the Plan 9 environment. a general answer would be `the design of name spaces to represent those s= ervices', 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 fr= om the application's point of view, in what it's intended to achieve, not `how would you do SRB's XYZ operation'.)