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            1 LIBIXP
            2 ======
            3 `libixp` is a stand-alone client/server [9P](http://9p.cat-v.org/) library
            4 including `ixpc` client. It consists of less than 2000 lines of code (including
            5 `ixpc`).
            6 
            7 `libixp`'s server API is based heavily on that of [Plan
            8 9](http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9)'s
            9 [`lib9p`](http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/9p), and the two libraries export
           10 virtually identical data structures. There are a few notable differences
           11 between the two, however:
           12 
           13 * `libixp` multiplexes connections internally, while on `Plan 9`, the kernel
           14   performs this task, and in [plan9port](http://swtch.com/plan9port/), a separate
           15   process is spawned to do so. Despite this divergence, the user of the library
           16   will not notice any difference in behavior, except that there may be duplicate
           17   `tag` and `fid` numbers between different connections. This issue is of little
           18   relevance, however, as the library handles the task of mapping `fid`s and
           19   `tag`s to arbitrary pointers and `P9Req` structs.
           20 
           21 * `libixp` is released under a lenient MIT-style license.
           22 
           23 * `libixp` lacks `lib9p`'s file trees.
           24 
           25 * Unlike `plan9port`'s `lib9p`, `libixp` is POSIX based, and should compile
           26   without specialized libraries on nearly any POSIX system.
           27 
           28 Download
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           30 * [libixp-0.5](//dl.suckless.org/libs/libixp-0.5.tar.gz)
           31