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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:35:12 -0700
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
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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".

Cheers,
  Anthony