From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca In-Reply-To: <3d8154149de8f10b0ef1beb40db0f7d5@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:52:57 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 67c9f9c8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'm with rog. All we need is a broadcast service in /srv. Anyone > writes into it and everyone reading it sees it. It's basicly > consolefs without the device. Call it a chat room if you like. i've written a prototype, basically modifying consolefs to use an 'empty' device and adding some niceties to show who's talking. i'll rewrite into a full-fledged file server serving 'rooms' probably by the end of next week. and will send it here for everybody to use. it's possible that i'll serve a file descriptor somewhere on ucalgary.ca for everybody who cares to mount and have a chat without having to worry about irc clients for plan9 (and restricting it to plan9 users only :), using their sources.cs usernames andrey