Re: Hurdish TCP stack

[Lluis]

El Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:55:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès ens deleit� amb les 
seg�ents paraules:
> 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.

Hi all,

I'm just an sneaker in many lists but... does Hurd support introspection?  
Or has any plan to support it? In that case there could be an introspection 
translator for supporting such fs constructs (all by free with a single 
translator... after paying the cost of implementing introspection, of 
course :)), but the base code would still be all RPC-based.

Just a quick thought through a quick list read.

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