Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:09:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, josef [iso-8859-1] hЖЖk wrote:
> Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > > According to Alexander Viro: > > > 9P is quite simple and unlike CORBA it had been designed for taking > > > kernel stuff to userland. Besides, authors definitely understand > > > UNIX... > > > > As nice as 9P is, it'll need some tweaks to work with Linux. > > For example, it limits filenames to 30 characters; that's not OK. > > -- > > Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com> > > "Give me immortality, or give me death!" // Firesign Theatre > > > > Another thing in mind that if we would want to use 9P we would also need to > port IL .
It can live atop of TCP, it can live atop of AF_UNIX. IL would be nice for more than one reason, though...
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