On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > Am I close? > > a Plan 9 "file server" is just a program that responds to the 9P > protocol described in section 5 of the manual. (there is library > support for writing a file server.) a file server can provide a > service other than conventional data storage: consider rio, the plan > 9 window system, and acme, a user interface for programmers. some > file servers are more conventional: 9660srv for access to storage in > ISO9660 format, and notably fossil and venti. > > typically many file servers can run on one host, each providing a > different aspect of an application program's run-time environment, > but some services might (optionally) be given dedicated machines, > such as venti and fossil.
Did I not allude to that when I used the word "daemon"? -- Duke
