Re: microsoft's plan 9 distribution

Lucio De Re <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.general
Message-ID <CAJQ9t7hjEOj-jAcWD2LQS88x+g7LR-0ZVnfj4bYo+M0pWeTidQ@mail.gmail.com>
Closet 9 Fans, outed!

Pity, really, because these may be reluctant to reveal how to access a
remote 9P site. But exciting, nevertheless.

The weird thing I don't quite get is that it looks like u9fs running
under WX with an extX interface. Is that going to be the trend? What
are the permissible permutations?

Lucio.


On 2/16/19, Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> interesting...
>
> the first thing, can you convince the 9p server to offer 9p over tcp? then,
> can explorer mount my plan9 file server?
>
> the biggest surprised is that i don't recognise any of the names of the team
> listed as 9fans of old.
>
> -Steve
>
>>> On 16 Feb 2019, at 3:57 am, Lucio De Re <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/16/19, Kurt H Maier <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 01:48:01AM +0100, hiro wrote:
>>>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2019/02/15/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/
>>>
>>> Just when the linux kids finally gave up on 9p2000.l, and introduced
>>> virtio-fs, Microsoft shows up to ensconce 9p forever.
>> I wonder what the long-term plan really is, though? Process-level
>> namespaces? If they can do that, they will leave Linux standing.
>>
>> Lucio.
>
>
>


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