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"The Organization of Networks in Plan 9"
- Dave Presotto
- Phil Winterbottom

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/

The Organization of Networks in Plan 9

Webserver in Brainfuck: a simple shell script sets up a listening tcp connection and then starts the bf program with standard input and standard output both pointing to the `data` file.

#programming #plan9 #cursed

pixx 2d ago

Anyone else got a Reform running Plan 9, btw? I've never been able to get the reading of data from the lpc to work, and reading reform/pm.c and cross referencing with the lpc firmware, I'm fairly sure the implementation is just wrong.

Has this ever worked? Anyone have it working now? Curious if there was a breaking firmeare change or something...

#plan9 #9front #mntreform #mnt #reform

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Paul Houle 5d ago

@heavyimage #plan9 has a "everything behaves like a serial connection" that made a lot of things easy

Jesse Spielman 5d ago

One thing I like a lot about #plan9 / #inferno is the idea that lots of useful things are served/represented as filesystems which can be easily mounted between machines. Famously "vpn"ing a process involves bind mounting a remote machine's networking #filesystem over your workstations own (inside that process's namespace). Want to use another computer's mouse? Just mount that device over the network into your process. 1/?

pixx 5d ago

...fossil's file system checker just *deleted the primary root* for being corrupt. /active is just *gone*.

I'm going to have to scan the drive for the latest archival scores and reinitalize the fossil entirely. Ffs.

Good thing i have backups...

#plan9 #9front