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Mac9p

9P Kernel Extension for MacOS

From benavento·Updated May 14, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Mac9P** is a software that allows you to mount [9P](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)) file systems on a Mac OS X system. The project is written primarily in C, first published in 2015. Key topics include: 9p, filesystem, macos, plan9.

Latest release: 1.1
October 15, 2015View Changelog →

Mac9P 1.1

Mac9P is a software that allows you to mount 9P file systems on a Mac OS X system.

Install

Run Install Mac9P from the Mac9P.dmg.

Uninstall

Run Uninstall.tool from the Mac9P.dmg.

Building

Prerequisites

  • Xcode.

Compiling

In a terminal run:

cd mac9
make all

Mounting

From the Finder

_(Broken if the binary is not signed)
Go -> Connect to Server...: 9p://sources.cs.bell-labs.com.

From a Terminal

mkdir /tmp/sources
mount -t 9p -onoauth sources.cs.bell-labs.com /tmp/sources

Documentation

See mount_9p(8).

Troubleshooting

Disable kext signing check

  1. Boot into Recovery Mode by restarting your mac while holding down Command+R.
  2. Open a Terminal from Utilities -> Terminal and run:
csrutil disable
csrutil enable --without kext

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