It doesn't emulate 9P (protocol); it is in fact the Plan 9 implementation. The fan-in/fan-out of 9p connection is done by 9pserve (src/cmd/9pserve.c, partially emulating the Plan 9 mnt driver. Servers publish a 9p endpoint, and 9pserve is used to let multiple clients to establish 9p connections to that server.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:02 AM Dan Cross <cro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:43 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > >> i apologise up-front for asking this on 9fans, but, how is acme and >> plumber and all it's utilities (including upas) made to work under >> non-plan9 systems via plan9port; on say something like linux or even mac >> os x? >> >> do they have some kind of user-level library which emulates 9p? >> > > That's exactly right. > > - Dan C. > >
