I've lost track of how many people tell me "xyz is using plan9" when they mean "9p".
Just one of those things. On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have had a cursory look and based on the information from McAfee > blog (link that moody posted), I am guessing the functionality of > p9rdr.sys is similar to what brucee (Bruce Ellis) implemented some 20 > years ago in the wen.sys component of the Rangboom agent for Windows. > > There are a lot of historical legal strings attached to the use of > Windows Installable Drivers and Windows Driver SDKs, which makes it > risky to publish the source. I would release it under MIT license, if > I can get approval from MS (I've not looked at their requirements in > years, so they might have already been relaxed). > > > On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM Lucas Francesco > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > They didn't open source the windows part that makes 9p avaliable as NT > > kernel file connection method tho :/ > > > > We're almost there /hj > > > > On Tue, 20 May 2025, 00:15 Skip Tavakkolian, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> MS has released WSL under the MIT license. Local file serving done by a > >> "plan9" file server over 9P. > >> > >> https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ > >> > >> https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/tree/2.5.7 > >> > >> > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tb7c7cf129f7343ab-Mfe7c6baac7075863ffd9dda2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
