Re: [dev] plumb 1.0

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mate Nagy <mnagy_AT_port70.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> your »plumb« looks like the Plan 9 plumber[0] done wrong,
>> whereas your »plumbnet« is a wrong done socat[1] or
>> ncat[2]. Those tools do network right and allow further
>> configuration, like encryption, wrappers, filters, etc.,
>> which your application will only find out on purpose, if
>> anyone needs it.
>
> apparently you haven't read any of my mails or the man pages, because
> what plumb does has little relation to the plan9 plumber - and it does
> it on linux where these facilities are unavailable anyway.

I just want to point out that the Plan 9 plumber works on Linux as
part of Plan 9 from User Space: http://plan9.us

uriel

>
> furthermore, plumbnet's functionality is not easily reproducible with
> either socat or similar tools (this is why i wrote it in the first
> place).
>
> Best regards,
>  Mate
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 15 2010 - 12:11:18 CEST