9pfs for the Hurd
Sergey Bugaev <[email protected]>
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Hello, Some years ago, I experimented with implementing a 9P translator for the Hurd. Hopefully there is no need to tell this list what 9P is :) Besides just browsing files on the few existing servers out there, a potential use case is virtio-9p, to enable shared directory trees between VMs and the host. But that would need someone to implement virtio support in the Hurd. I wanted to complete 9pfs before publishing, but that ultimately didn't happen, so now it's time to turn it over to the community. I now went and made the repository public on GitHub: https://github.com/bugaevc/9pfs What's implemented is basic browsing (readdir, stat), path resolution (dir_lookup), and reading files (io_read). And below that, the whole tracking for nodes, peropens, protids, fids, tags, and 9p RPCs. Improvements are welcome, send patches to this list with [PATCH 9pfs] in the subject. A good starting point would be to continue porting things that I had implemented in the old netfs-based version (see netfs.c) but didn't yet port to the new one. Cheers, Sergey