Because it replaces ptrace, and seems to work perfectly fine when I mount it over 9p. It's used by acid, which needs no additional utilities: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/acid
> If you want to add compression to your VNC thing
Images may be sent compressed. More -- or at least better -- formats would be good, but this is done.
It's a bit complex because it needs to do more than just forward mouse, keyboard and drawing -- signals need to be interposed and forwarded, and there are a few other subtle things that need to happen in the namespace. And because it contains both the client and server code. Even so, it's still small compared to VNC.
And yes, shithub is hosted on plan 9.
> or add some more complex routing to your network setup, you have to start adding special daemons and proxies and translation layers into another socket
> The debug APIs can still only return a direct memory mapped pointer to the process memory as a special case
Can you point to the special case here?
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/proc
Because it replaces ptrace, and seems to work perfectly fine when I mount it over 9p. It's used by acid, which needs no additional utilities: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/acid
> If you want to add compression to your VNC thing
Images may be sent compressed. More -- or at least better -- formats would be good, but this is done.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/draw
For a full implementation of remote login using these interfaces, here's the code:
http://shithub.us/ori/plan9front/fd1db35c4d429096b9aff1763f2...
It's a bit complex because it needs to do more than just forward mouse, keyboard and drawing -- signals need to be interposed and forwarded, and there are a few other subtle things that need to happen in the namespace. And because it contains both the client and server code. Even so, it's still small compared to VNC.
And yes, shithub is hosted on plan 9.
> or add some more complex routing to your network setup, you have to start adding special daemons and proxies and translation layers into another socket
Here are the network APIs.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip
What kind of complex routing are you talking about, and why would it be impossible to implement using those interfaces?