LIBIXP
libixp is a stand-alone client/server 9P library
including ixpc client. It consists of less than 2000 lines of code (including
ixpc).
libixp's server API is based heavily on that of Plan
9's
lib9p, and the two libraries export
virtually identical data structures. There are a few notable differences
between the two, however:
libixpmultiplexes connections internally, while onPlan 9, the kernel performs this task, and in plan9port, a separate process is spawned to do so. Despite this divergence, the user of the library will not notice any difference in behavior, except that there may be duplicatetagandfidnumbers between different connections. This issue is of little relevance, however, as the library handles the task of mappingfids andtags to arbitrary pointers andP9Reqstructs.libixpis released under a lenient MIT-style license.libixplackslib9p's file trees.Unlike
plan9port'slib9p,libixpis POSIX based, and should compile without specialized libraries on nearly any POSIX system.