Re: Hurdish TCP stack

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Joshua Stratton" <strattonbrazil@gmail.com> writes:

> They use an interesting system to control their connections using ASCII
> strings.  For example changing the packet size would be as simple as "2400
>> ctl" would change the packet size to 2400 (some syntax to that effect). 

Plan 9 does everything through "ctl" files that can be read and written
to with `cat' and `echo', pretty much like Linux sysfs.  The downside is
that all commands have to be parsed and interpreted.

I suppose a more "hurdish" solution would be to use a dedicated RPC
interface (e.g., one with a `set_packet_size ()' RPC) rather than just
use the `io' interface for everything.

Thanks,
Ludovic.