Re: [9fans] 9P - Meaning of iounit

2016-10-03 Thread Chris McGee
Thanks Richard, James, Chris > On Oct 3, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > term% lookman iounit > man 2 fcall # fcall(2) > man 2 iounit # iounit(2) > man 3 proc # proc(3) > man 5 0intro # 0intro(5) > man 5 open # open(5) > man 5 read # read(5) > >

Re: [9fans] 9P - Meaning of iounit

2016-10-03 Thread Jules Merit
I agree with Eric*com. Rice rice baby, popo. Don't Tread on my 9p server. On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:08 AM, James A. Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:54 AM Chris McGee wrote: > >> Lately, I’m looking at the “iounit.” Initially, I had thought of

Re: [9fans] 9P - Meaning of iounit

2016-10-03 Thread James A. Robinson
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:54 AM Chris McGee wrote: > Lately, I’m looking at the “iounit.” Initially, I had thought of it as a > way to give the size of a file on Topen. After some testing I realized that > the network subsystem in plan9 is expecting the iounit to be large

Re: [9fans] 9P - Meaning of iounit

2016-10-03 Thread Richard Miller
term% lookman iounit man 2 fcall # fcall(2) man 2 iounit # iounit(2) man 3 proc # proc(3) man 5 0intro # 0intro(5) man 5 open # open(5) man 5 read # read(5)

[9fans] 9P - Meaning of iounit

2016-10-03 Thread Chris McGee
Hello All, I am learning the 9p protocol and implementing a 9P server. After reading the 9p manual page, the types of messages and much of the overview is clear. There are a number of items that are less clear. For example, it took some time to figure out how to provide a directory structure

[9fans] 9p - meaning of iounit

2016-10-02 Thread Chris McGee
Hello All, I am learning the 9p protocol and implementing a 9P server. After reading the 9p manual page, the types of messages and much of the overview is clear. There are a number of items that are less clear. For example, it took some time to figure out how to provide a directory structure