On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 14:32, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 9P itself is not a stream-oriented
> protocol, nor is it what one would generally call, 'transport
> technology.'
I would beg to differ on this subject... Because a lot of tools in
the Plan9 environment expose their facilities as 9p file systems, but
expose other semantics than that of "generic" files -- i.e. a
contiguous stream of bytes from start to EOF -- like for example RPC
semantic in case of factotum; thus I would say that 9p is used as a
"session" layer in the OSI terminology. (But as in TCP/IP stack we
don't have other layers between "transport" and "application" I would
call it a "transport" layer in such a context.)
