On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't p9p POSIX enough? Confused I am, but wasn't that the point of p9p? > p9p gives you a runtime environment just like Plan 9s. From the point of view of a programmer you can even pretend you're not in a POSIX world.It's wonderful but there are times when people want the functionality (e.g. venti server) but not using p9p libraries, but POSIX libraries. We hit that issue a lot in the early days of xcpu. The first few versions were very much p9p code. Users complained about the need for the extra libraries and unfamiliar programming environment. Later versions of xcpu were all POSIX, no p9p at all. Hope I said that right. ron
