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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] magic loopback
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:25:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0609191625u2c09b16i87d10b7791d4aba7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <944652eb9310f5c6ddbc5430e800286a@quanstro.net>

/srv just connects file descriptors.  It doesn't have listen and announce.
So unless you are posting 9P sessions to /srv
(in which case the kernel takes care of multiplexing
the many clients who open /srv/your-service), posting
to /srv is dramatically less useful than announcing a
network address: there's no way to keep clients separate.

9P is not a very good model for Venti.  At best the 9P realization
would be a single file /venti-rpc that clients could open and
use to issue real RPCs.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-17 20:02 erik quanstrom
2006-09-18  3:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-18  8:56   ` Richard Miller
2006-09-18 23:16     ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-19  8:04       ` Richard Miller
2006-09-19 23:07         ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-19 23:25           ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-09-19 23:36             ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-20  0:54               ` Russ Cox
2006-09-20  9:48             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-20  9:55 Fco. J. Ballesteros

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