This is cool. I've written two or three implementations of 9p in the past, the more the merrier :) In the other direction, I ported Ocaml's interpreter to Plan 9. Wish there were more people using it back in the day, but that's what you get from a dying operating system...

9P is cool though. Simple, elegant, working.

The space seems pretty merry :)

http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations

Never give up Andrey, Glenda will rise again !

>I ported Ocaml's interpreter to Plan 9.

That sounds pretty cool, care sharing any more information about this project?

here's the link to the page: http://mirtchovski.com/p9/ocaml/

Seconding this, I'd love to see it.

Why is it that almost always 9P is implemented instead of the improved 9P2000?

Bottom of the README says:

> This library supports the 9P2000.u extension

That's right -- it'll negotiate 9P2000.u if it can and otherwise drop back to 9P2000. I don't think it'll ever support 9P2000.l the very Linux-specific variant.

Is there any reason to support 9P2000.l if you're not Linux? Are there Linux-specific filesystem servers that won't negotiate plain 9P2000?

I'd be interested to know how it compares to more recent protocols.