In that case, is there any way to get the current max packet size that 9p will allow for a read or write, or to determine if you're drawing to a local machine or not? I'm not seeing anything obvious under /dev or /env.
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:45 PM, <cinap_len...@felloff.net> wrote: > you wont have that limitation on devdraw on the local machine. but > over 9p, your reads and writes are limited by the iounit of the > channel over which 9p is transfered. > > the reson for having a iounit is that you'r not the only one doing > stuff over the channel. you chunk stuff up in packets, so multiple > things can appear as simultanious even tho theres only one serial > channel. the bigger you make the packets, the bigger the latency > for concurrent packets wanting to be transmitted. > > for the keyboard stuff. you cant do that with /dev/cons. drawterm > only gives you runes, but no kbmap (you'r probably seeing the cpu > servers kbmap, not the one in drawterm). in 9front [1,2], theres > /dev/kbd [3] which also gives you button states. > > [1] http://9front.org/ > [2] http://drawterm.9front.org/ > [3] http://man.9front.org/8/kbdfs > > -- > cinap > > -- - Dave
