On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:31 -0700, Russ Cox wrote: > > it appears that I'm missing something fundamental in how > > 9pfuse (the one written by Russ) works when it is given > > "-" as an address. The source looks like it should be > > simply using stdin for R/W instead of dialing out the > > connection first, but it doesn't really seem to work. > > Here's the simplest way of reproducing what I'm > > seeing: > > I don't know why your example doesn't work, but ramfs > simply may not work with 9pfuse.
Any particular reason for that? I'm asking simply because ramfs appears to be quite broken on my system. In fact, I can't make it work at all. Has it bitrotted? > I would try doing something > a little more complicated, like dial tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs > and then run 9pfuse - with that on standard input. That, actually, seems to work fine. Although I'm about to give it more stress testing. Here's a question thought: by default 9pserve only listens on an AF_UNIX socket what would be the best way to connect it to the AF_INET one? Thanks, Roman.
