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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Darren Bane <darren.bane@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:15:53 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] Re: writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
> servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).
> 
> There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
> worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(
> 
> Any tips ?

Install plan9port ( http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ).  Read "9 man 3 9p"
for how to write servers.  You don't need to do anything special to
write clients, Linux can mount 9p filesystems and you can just do file
I/O on them.
-- 
Darren Bane