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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:34:40 +0100
From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9front] CDC ACM nusb/serial driver
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, at 6:35 AM, Anthony Martin wrote:
> Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> once said:
> > i remember being told you can't use 9p over serial directly, you need
> > another layer. i can't clearly remember what that layer should do,
> > but i think it was preserve message boundaries. this was all long ago,
> > before 9front.
> 
> Before the 9P2000 rewrite, the kernel required the underlying transport
> protocol to preserve message boundaries. You needed a little something
> extra between 9P and TCP, for example, but not for IL.
> 
> To quote Charles, "all you need is a transport protocol that reliably
> preserves content and order".

Ah, that's good to know. Thanks.