9P (protocol)

Network protocol for the Plan 9 distributed operating system 9PCommunication protocolPurposeConnecting componentsDeveloperBell LabsIntroduction1992; 34 years ago (1992)Influenced9P2000 Internet protocol suite Application layer BGP DHCP (v6) DNS FTP HTTP (HTTP/3) HTTPS IMAP IPP IRC LDAP MGCP MQTT NNTP NTP OSPF POP PTP ONC/RPC RTP RTSP RIP SIP SMTP SNMP SSH Telnet TLS/SSL XMPP more... Transport layer TCP UDP DCCP SCTP RSVP QUIC more... Internet layer IP v4 v6 ICMP (v6) NDP ECN L4S IGMP IPsec more... Link layer ARP Tunnels PPP MAC more... vte 9P (or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol or Styx) is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system. Files are key objects in Plan 9. They represent windows, network connections, processes, and almost anything else available in the operating system. 9P was revised for the 4th edition of Plan 9 under the name 9P2000, containing various improvements. Some of the improvements made are the removal of certain filename restrictions, the addition of a 'last modifier' metadata field for directories, and authentication files. The latest version of the Infern