Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Wright
original article, I think the question was how Plan 9 could support protocols such as: SCTP (Stream Control Transport Protocol. In SCTP a communication endpoint is represented by more than one IP address. Gary Wright

Re: [9fans] 9p2010

2009-04-23 Thread Gary Wright
On Apr 23, 2009, at 12:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: with 9p2000, if you want to do a Tread, it's pretty clear that one needs to read(2); traditiona syscalls map directly to 9p. It seems to me that the syscall interface is by design different than the 9p2000 api: - most syscalls map to a se