* Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > interesting, yes, but what's the point? (not saying it's useless, just > that I missed something). What would I use it for?
For a better understanding I'd suggest a bit research on Plan9 ;-P In Plan9 everything runs through filesystems (even more than on *nix). Instead of large applications and dozens of frameworks we have fileservers for many things, even the windowing system is accessed via the filessystem. So filesystem trees (accessed via the 9P protocol) are the universal IPC. This makes the whole thing completely network transparent and platform agnostic. The MixerFS is one of the puzzle pieces. It provides an easy to use interface for applications which want to control mixers. So (once the apps have been ported ;-P) there's no more dependency to any platform specific stuff and the whole thing is immediately network transparent. One of the next steps is an audio io filesystem, which replaces things like esd or jack. I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to their own fileservers. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
