Re: [9fans] Plumber architecture question

2019-01-05 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, at 2:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > you need plumber so cpu can be transparent to plumbing. Good point. I think it could be done with multi-/srv, but I see one problem: you wouldn't want cpu to export all of /srv. (Right?) I think it could be dealt with by mounting a sepa

Re: [9fans] Plumber architecture question

2019-01-05 Thread erik quanstrom
you need plumber so cpu can be transparent to plumbing.- erik

[9fans] Plumber architecture question

2019-01-05 Thread Ethan Gardener
Every so often, I start wondering why the plumber isn't simpler. Here's my simpler design: There is no plumber. Instead, `plumb` reads the plumbing files and acts accordingly. To receive input from the plumber, programs post a pipe in /srv. No need for a special-purpose filesystem. It will