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1.SH
29P Protocol Drivers
3.PP
4The file server described so far
5waits for 9P protocol messages to
6appear in its input queue.
7It processes each message and
8sends the reply back to the originator.
9There are groups of processes that
10perform protocol I/O on some network or
11device and the resulting messages
12are sent to the file system queue.
13.PP
14There are two sets of processes
15.CW ethi
16and
17.CW etho
18that perform Ethernet input and output on two different networks.
19These processes send Ethernet messages
20to/from two more processes
21.CW ilo
22and
23.CW ilt
24that do the IL reliable datagram protocol
25on top of IP packets.
26.PP
27The last process in Emelie,
28.CW con ,
29reads the console
30and calls internal subroutines to
31executes commands typed.
32Since there is only one process,
33only one command can be executing at a
34time.
35See
36.I fs (8)
37for a description of the
38commands available at the console.
39