Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-05-29 Thread Lucio De Re
> Just when you thought every bikeshed had been painted... All bikesheds need to be repainted eventually. ++L

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-05-29 Thread John Floren
Just when you thought every bikeshed had been painted... On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > (Trolling unintentional) > > The misspelling of Xerox in Acme has bugged me for a long time.  I > want to suggest that we change it to Clone.  Votes? > > ++L > >

[9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-05-29 Thread Lucio De Re
(Trolling unintentional) The misspelling of Xerox in Acme has bugged me for a long time. I want to suggest that we change it to Clone. Votes? ++L

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-29 Thread arnold
Thanks to everyone for the advice. > On Tue May 29 23:48:31 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > > short hardcoded paths are an advantage. this is not linux. this > > is plan9. there are rules. the kernel already provides a way for > > indirection that works for *everything*. mount/bind and priv

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-29 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 29 23:48:31 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > short hardcoded paths are an advantage. this is not linux. this > is plan9. there are rules. the kernel already provides a way for > indirection that works for *everything*. mount/bind and private > namespaces. while this is all true, a

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-29 Thread cinap_lenrek
short hardcoded paths are an advantage. this is not linux. this is plan9. there are rules. the kernel already provides a way for indirection that works for *everything*. mount/bind and private namespaces. no need to reimplement indirection in every program over and over again. a hardcoded path ex

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-29 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 29 17:03:49 EDT 2012, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. > > Thanks. I did see that. I was wondering more about all the hardcoded > path names in the various scripts in /sys/man and /sys/lib/man and > also getting p9p mk to use rc instead of sh to run commands. > > I suppose that I will ju

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-29 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi. Thanks. I did see that. I was wondering more about all the hardcoded path names in the various scripts in /sys/man and /sys/lib/man and also getting p9p mk to use rc instead of sh to run commands. I suppose that I will just manually "nerd through it" (as a friend used to say). Thanks, Arnol