From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0aba8ee306d0a7aef7d20244bd119a7b@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:05:40 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c2ec090-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>I also have to wonder about the perceived inconsistent behavior of union >>directories and the hacks that people keep developing (BSD) or proposing >>(this list) to deal with those inconsistencies. Could this imply that my i think it's only a problem when one expects them to do too much: recursive combination of two directories is an example (yet that's usually what's needed in general for versioning, i think). they are an effective way of doing what they usually do now: build up directories of services and other resources from many sources, local and remote, including substituting one for another. the naming seems consistent to me. if a name appears in a directory, i can use that name. whether it appears once or twice, doesn't matter. the arguments seem to focus on whether with a change here or there they could be got to do a little more work (eg, by allowing * to iterate exactly once over all services, protocols, say). i don't think it's that essential in practice.