Stream: brlcad

Topic: 9P

Peter Pronai (May 22 2018 at 20:43):

This is not related to my GSoC project, just throwing this idea out there:

what if MGED exported its databases with 9P and let the user use standard UNIX tools (+ some MGED specific scripts) instead of replicating UNIX functionality?

if you know Plan 9 (the OS) then you know what I'm talking about, if you don't, then this demo of the Acme editor is IMHO a good way to get the gist of the Plan 9 way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

Sean (May 27 2018 at 18:46):

what if MGED exported its databases with 9P and let the user use standard UNIX tools (+ some MGED specific scripts) instead of replicating UNIX functionality?```

one big problem is needing something that is also portable or could be made to work on Windows too
one option I've thought about is using FUSE, but even would be quite a management headache ...

the easiest solution I've come across thus far is to implement the posix readdir API for .g files, so you'd only need to recompile standard unix tools.

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