[9fans] 9vx access from Drawterm/cpu: patch and how-to

2010-01-06 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
>I dont understand. Why can't the capability device be put directly >into 9vx? Doesn't the 9vx "kernel" have its own notion of >user id for each of the processes it hosts independant of the >underlying unix user id? I thought only select parts of the >system such as the unix file server cared about

Re: [9fans] 9vx access from Drawterm/cpu: patch and how-to

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Newsham
of cpu.c makes use of the kernel cap device via a call to the auth_chuid function, and the cap device is not available in 9vx, probably due to the single-user nature of it as a hosted environment. I dont understand. Why can't the capability device be put directly into 9vx? Doesn't the 9vx "kerne

[9fans] 9vx access from Drawterm/cpu: patch and how-to

2010-01-06 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
A brief note on 9vx and cpu, which might also be relevant for a few other things. Using 9vx as a cpu server has been mentioned a few times, but my attempts to actually get this working met with failure initially. I believe I have tracked down the issue - the remoteside() of cpu.c makes use of the k