From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:25:14 -0400 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] magic loopback In-Reply-To: <944652eb9310f5c6ddbc5430e800286a@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <944652eb9310f5c6ddbc5430e800286a@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: baacd930-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 /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