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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno from hg does not build out of the box
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On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>> committing a ".emptydir" file in each directory would be easier.
>
> why bother making it .emptydir (ie, with the dot) when that makes it
> invisible on broken host systems (with the ls bug) but visible under
> inferno itself.
> more important, and the reason i didn't do that,
> if it's visible under inferno itself, it breaks the point of some of
> those directories being there, and empty: you're supposed to be able
> to enumerate
> services by listing names subsequently bound to them.
>

Perhaps a rule in the mkfile which would check/create empty directories?
Certainly makes sense for <arch>/lib and whatnot, less certain it
makes perfect
sense for other common empty directories.

        -eric