Re: [9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver

2014-10-13 Thread Bruce Ellis
To be honest I've wondered about this for a while. Here's my quandry... I use Vmware for Ubuntu 14 LTS. First I start a dumbarse terminal and do: factotum& plumber& sam&9term& This gives me something I can work with. But when I run venti, then fossil - I get no fossilcons in $ns. Fossil works

Re: [9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver

2014-10-13 Thread
Hi, Mycroftiv wrote hubfs for plan9 (http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Hubfs/index.html) It may serve as inspiration :-) On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:35:53PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 12.10.2014 19:47, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > Hi, > > > i'm a little confused

Re: [9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver

2014-10-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 12.10.2014 19:47, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: Hi, > i'm a little confused by this. could you describe how this will work > from a user's perspective? do you mean that a user on p9p starts 9term, > but the /dev/cons is really a /dev/pts/* etc.? I'd like to run it on a Linux system (eg. via p9p).

Re: [9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver

2014-10-12 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i'm a little confused by this. could you describe how this will work from a user's perspective? do you mean that a user on p9p starts 9term, but the /dev/cons is really a /dev/pts/* etc.? On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote: > Hi fo

[9fans] p9p: Virtual terminal fileserver

2014-10-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, did anyone already write virtual terminal fileserver, which allows starting a normal unix process on a virtual terminal (on Linux the /dev/pts/*) and provides access to it via 9P ? Then we could have a client/terminal connecting to it, so we have screen(1)-alike functionality. greetin