An OCaml/Mirage-friendly implementation of the Plan9 filesystem protocol

[luu]

https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-9p

[f2f]

This is cool. I've written two or three implementations of 9p in the past, the more the merrier :) In the other direction, I ported Ocaml's interpreter to Plan 9. Wish there were more people using it back in the day, but that's what you get from a dying operating system...

9P is cool though. Simple, elegant, working.

[timClicks → f2f]

The space seems pretty merry :)

http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations

[SixSigma → f2f]

Never give up Andrey, Glenda will rise again !

[nv-vn → f2f]

>I ported Ocaml's interpreter to Plan 9.

That sounds pretty cool, care sharing any more information about this project?

[f2f → nv-vn]

here's the link to the page: http://mirtchovski.com/p9/ocaml/

[tokamach → nv-vn]

Seconding this, I'd love to see it.

[cm3]

Why is it that almost always 9P is implemented instead of the improved 9P2000?

[thaJeztah → cm3]

Bottom of the README says:

> This library supports the 9P2000.u extension

[djs55 → thaJeztah]

That's right -- it'll negotiate 9P2000.u if it can and otherwise drop back to 9P2000. I don't think it'll ever support 9P2000.l the very Linux-specific variant.

[derefr → djs55]

Is there any reason to support 9P2000.l if you're not Linux? Are there Linux-specific filesystem servers that won't negotiate plain 9P2000?

[mercurial]

I'd be interested to know how it compares to more recent protocols.