Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-02 Thread roger peppe
why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet? is there any point to it at all any more? localhost-only announcing i suppose. 2009/2/2 Roman V. Shaposhnik r...@sun.com: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:27 -0800, Russ Cox wrote: as for listening, 9vx by default uses the host ip stack, and plan

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-02 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet? is there any point to it at all any more? They depend on it now more than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at what port many people use for NFS nowadays. Lots of bad

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-02 Thread erik quanstrom
They depend on it now more than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at what port many people use for NFS nowadays. Lots of bad things have never been fixed, and this is one of them. I guess it's more fun to lard GUI software over top and hope nobody notices. too bad that there seems to be

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-02 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:27 -0800, Russ Cox wrote: as for listening, 9vx by default uses the host ip stack, and plan 9 services tend to use their own port numbers, And sometimes these port # tend to be 1024 which means that you have to run 9vx as root. Thanks, Roman.

[9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-01 Thread Mathieu
Hello, Simple question: how hard would it be to modify 9vx so it can be used as a cpu server? As I naively see it, the two main problems are: 1) to have 9vx running a cpu server kernel instead of a stand alone terminal one (I don't even know if that's the case actually). 2) to have the host

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-01 Thread erik quanstrom
As I naively see it, the two main problems are: 1) to have 9vx running a cpu server kernel instead of a stand alone terminal one (I don't even know if that's the case actually). i think there would be a little work in getting this going. 2) to have the host forwarding whatever packets should

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-01 Thread Mathieu
As I naively see it, the two main problems are: 1) to have 9vx running a cpu server kernel instead of a stand alone terminal one (I don't even know if that's the case actually). i think there would be a little work in getting this going. Ok, so it's possible then. :) I'll see if I can

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-01 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/2/1 Mathieu lejat...@gmail.com: As I naively see it, the two main problems are: 1) to have 9vx running a cpu server kernel instead of a stand alone terminal one (I don't even know if that's the case actually). i think there would be a little work in getting this going. Ok, so it's

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?

2009-02-01 Thread Russ Cox
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Mathieu lejat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Simple question: how hard would it be to modify 9vx so it can be used as a cpu server? As I naively see it, the two main problems are: 1) to have 9vx running a cpu server kernel instead of a stand alone terminal one