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1 LIBIXP |
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2 ====== |
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3 `libixp` is a stand-alone client/server [9P](http://9p.cat-v.org/) libra… |
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4 including `ixpc` client. It consists of less than 2000 lines of code (in… |
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5 `ixpc`). |
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7 `libixp`'s server API is based heavily on that of [Plan |
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8 9](http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9)'s |
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9 [`lib9p`](http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/9p), and the two libraries export |
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10 virtually identical data structures. There are a few notable differences |
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11 between the two, however: |
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13 * `libixp` multiplexes connections internally, while on `Plan 9`, the ke… |
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14 performs this task, and in [plan9port](http://swtch.com/plan9port/), a… |
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15 process is spawned to do so. Despite this divergence, the user of the … |
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16 will not notice any difference in behavior, except that there may be d… |
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17 `tag` and `fid` numbers between different connections. This issue is o… |
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18 relevance, however, as the library handles the task of mapping `fid`s … |
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19 `tag`s to arbitrary pointers and `P9Req` structs. |
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21 * `libixp` is released under a lenient MIT-style license. |
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23 * `libixp` lacks `lib9p`'s file trees. |
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25 * Unlike `plan9port`'s `lib9p`, `libixp` is POSIX based, and should comp… |
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26 without specialized libraries on nearly any POSIX system. |
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28 Download |
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29 -------- |
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30 * [libixp-0.5](//dl.suckless.org/libs/libixp-0.5.tar.gz) |
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