Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:55:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "Joshua Stratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Plan 9 does everything through "ctl" files that can be read and > written to with `cat' and `echo', pretty much like Linux sysfs. The > downside is that all commands have to be parsed and interpreted. > > I suppose a more "hurdish" solution would be to use a dedicated RPC > interface (e.g., one with a `set_packet_size ()' RPC) rather than just > use the `io' interface for everything. A filesystem based interface is much easier to use for most programmers than generic RPCs. In cases where it is really useful, we can use native RPCs in *addition* to the FS-based interface -- it's perfectly possible for a translator to provide both... In this particular case however I don't see the need for a specialised RPC interface -- neither is performance critical, nor do we have complicated relationships that could be better expressed by such an interface... -antrik-
