Re: Hurdish TCP stack

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:55:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "Joshua Stratton" <strattonbrazil@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

A filesystem based interface is much easier to use for most programmers
than generic RPCs.

In cases where it is really useful, we can use native RPCs in *addition*
to the FS-based interface -- it's perfectly possible for a translator to
provide both...

In this particular case however I don't see the need for a specialised
RPC interface -- neither is performance critical, nor do we have
complicated relationships that could be better expressed by such an
interface...

-antrik-