TIPS ABOUT 9P CAPABILITIES
This page covers how to mount the wmii file system on Linux or Inferno, see 9P for a list of other 9P client libraries in various languages.
9p.ko
If you have installed a Linux kernel >= 2.6.14 you can install the 9.ko kernel module and mount the wmii filesystem as follows:
(Note: the module is called '9p2000' in kernels < 2.6.17 and the type parameter for mount is 9p also)
; modprobe 9p
; mount -t 9P $WMII_NS_DIR/wmii /mnt/wmii -o proto=unix,name=$USER,noextend
Afterwards the filesystem of wmii is exported to /mnt/wmii.
You can also add following line to /etc/fstab (replace $USER with your username):
/tmp/ns.$USER.:0/wmii /mnt/wmii 9P proto=unix,uid=1000,noauto,name=$USER,noextend,user 0 0
And put
mount /mnt/wmii
at the begining of your rc.wmii or wmiirc.
Inferno
If you have installed inferno, you can mount the wmii filesystem if you edit the wmii script through setting a tcp-socket capable address:
export WMII_ADDRESS=tcp!localhost!5555
instead of the default unix-socket file based address.
From within inferno you can then mount the filesystem easily:
; mount -A tcp!localhost!5555 /mnt/wmii
Or with unix domain sockets, you can mount them in inferno through any of a number of ugly hacks. The following requires plan9port, and will work regardless of the value of your $WMII_ADDRESS:
; mount -A {os rc -c 'exec dial $WMII_ADDRESS' >[1=0]} /mnt/wmii
or netcat:
; mount -A {os sh -c 'nc -U /tmp/ns.$USER.$DISPLAY/wmii' >[1=0]} /mnt/wmii
I suspect that the overhead of piping through dial or netcat is comprable to the overhead of TCP.
Have fun ;)