Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?"

2018-09-03 Thread Chris McGee
Thanks everyone. This is pretty much what I expected was the case. I just wanted to confirm my understanding. Plan 9 C was re-engineered with some focus on readable code. Readability is expected to make bugs more apparent, making it less “dangerous.” Linux is so huge and hard to read that even s

Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?"

2018-09-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Chris McGee wrote: > While the idea that many eyes makes bugs shallower seems to have failed > in the world of complex behemoth software it may work here. I think it worked for a while, but eventually complexity grew beyond even the many eyes approach.

Re: [9fans] focus window on plumb

2018-09-03 Thread umbraticus
Even simpler, run the following program in riostart thus: window 'raiseplumb web & mothra' window 'raiseplumb edit & sam' &c... could probably even be an rc script #include #include #include void main(int argc, char **argv) { Plumbmsg *m; int port, wctl; if(argc != 2