Re: streaming 9p

[Julius Schmidt <aiju@phicode.de>]

> If this streaming-9p stuff is what I remember from a while ago, which
> I have been trying to erase from my brains ever since:
>
> It completely breaks the 9P and Plan 9 model namespaces and network
> transparency, please keep that idiotic crap as far away as possible.
>
> It is an utterly disgraceful hack that destroys most of the things
> that make 9P and Plan 9 awesome.
>
> Hint: Pretending that all networks do TCP is as bad or worse than
> pretending the whole world is a VAX.
>
> If you are going to do this kind of crap, you could just as well use HTTP.

Amen.
It's even worse than pretending every network is TCP.
A motherfucking *SYSCALL* for hurr durr performance in some special
cases.
If you want 9P to behave like HTTP, use HTTP, really.
A much better idea than breaking everything and adding even more syscalls.
What has he been smoking?

aiju