weekly status report 10

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Not many commits this week. The only changes to the repo are to
eliminate the use of some special features from libixp.However, work
is going on behind the scenes to completely replace libixp with
inferno libraries.

I've been playing with some styx toy programs and, except a couple of
details I have to solve yet, I think I have found the way to use
libstyx in devwsys without having to do too many changes. Once these
changes are ready, devwsys will only depend on some inferno libraries
(and xlib). We hope this decision will make the code cleaner and more
consistent (libixp follows a style different to the inferno libs used
in devwsys). Relying on portable libraries will also help when porting
devwsys to other systems.

I'm finding writing user space 9p servers with libstyx easier than I
originally thought. I don't think enough people is aware of this
possibility, so I'm preparing a blog post about it. It will contain
some basic tips to write styx servers and a detailed explanation of
how the devwsys file system works.

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