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Re: Styx library...



> >  I am planning implement a Styx library for Unix. Before I start, I'd
> >like to know if anyone is working on a similar project. 
> 
> Actually, I (and several others up here) have been working on exactly
> that.  Our project had been put on hold for a while, but has recently
> started up again.  We are planning on making it possible to access
> Inferno namespaces on UNIX boxes, and have already made a few steps in
> that direction, as far as Styx goes.

Hmm, how would you do the latter?  The most transparent-to-the-user but
really grody-for-the-programmer way would be to do a user level NFS server
that translates NFS <--> Styx.  Yucko.

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