# HG changeset patch # User Peter Mikkelsen # Date 1594917137 -7200 # Thu Jul 16 18:32:17 2020 +0200 # Node ID 5f6b0d956b58b89131a96d478d7fada4038f8993 # Parent 1a08306cb854bc962fe9d8027e161356166f74f0 remove old files diff --git a/sites/pmikkelsen.com/notes/plan9/basic_9p_server.md b/sites/pmikkelsen.com/notes/plan9/basic_9p_server.md deleted file mode 100644 --- a/sites/pmikkelsen.com/notes/plan9/basic_9p_server.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ -## Writing a basic 9P server - -On plan 9 the entire system is build around the idea of namespaces -and that _"everything is a file"_. For this reason it is very easy to write -a new 9P fileserver in C since all the boring tasks are implemented in -libraries. This note describes a minimal program which serves a folder to -`/mnt/hello9p` containing a single synthetic file with the contents "Hello from 9P!". - -## The code - - #include - #include - #include - #include - #include <9p.h> - - void - fsread(Req *r) - { - readstr(r, "Hello from 9P!\n"); - respond(r, nil); - } - - Srv fs = { - .read = fsread, - }; - - void - main(void) - { - Tree *tree; - - tree = alloctree(nil, nil, DMDIR|0555, nil); - fs.tree = tree; - createfile(tree->root, "hello", nil, 0555, nil); - - postmountsrv(&fs, nil, "/mnt/hello9p", MREPL | MCREATE); - } - -## Explanation - -The global variable `fs` is a structure which contains function pointers -to all the 9P handlers, but since I only plan on reading from the file, -only the `read` field is set. The fsread function calls two helper functions -from the 9p(2) library which will create a response with the given string as -the file contents. - -In `main` I start by allocating a new file tree, since this 9P server deals with -a fileserver that has a tree structure, and therefore I don't have to worry -about how directories are handled for example. A file is added with `createfile` -to the root of the tree. - -The call to `postmountsrv` will mount the 9P server under `/mnt/hello9p`. - -## Thats it - -This is not very complicated, but see the manpages at 9p(2) and 9pfile(2) -and intro(5) for more information about the libraries and 9P itself.