* [9fans] renaming rio to rioc!
@ 2018-10-02 14:28 Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-02 17:31 ` Ethan Gardener
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From: Mayuresh Kathe @ 2018-10-02 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
since it's not the original rio in plan9port, how about renaming it to
rioc (rio clone)?
~mayuresh
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* Re: [9fans] renaming rio to rioc!
2018-10-02 14:28 [9fans] renaming rio to rioc! Mayuresh Kathe
@ 2018-10-02 17:31 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-02 18:08 ` hiro
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From: Ethan Gardener @ 2018-10-02 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, at 3:28 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> since it's not the original rio in plan9port, how about renaming it to
> rioc (rio clone)?
Why? :) I can think of a good reason, but why don't you say why you want to do it? Just feelings of what is right and wrong? Personally, my own feelings of right and wrong with respect to computing have too often proved to be harmful, so I try not to take too much notice of them these days.
If, on the other hand, you want to write a draw device implementation for the Linux framebuffer (or whatever) and port Plan 9's rio to it, bear in mind you'll also have to replace plan9port's devdraw binary. Just renaming it won't do; other programs launch it by name. Having users put your devdraw ahead of p9p in $PATH will work if I remember right, and the same trick will work for your rio. If you're distributing your own fork of plan9port, you have every right to rename or remove its supplied rio and devdraw.
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* Re: [9fans] renaming rio to rioc!
2018-10-02 17:31 ` Ethan Gardener
@ 2018-10-02 18:08 ` hiro
2018-10-03 21:25 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
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From: hiro @ 2018-10-02 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
drawterm runs on linux and has a draw device implementation already...
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* Re: [9fans] renaming rio to rioc!
2018-10-02 18:08 ` hiro
@ 2018-10-03 21:25 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
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From: Aram Hăvărneanu @ 2018-10-03 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> since it's not the original rio in plan9port, how about renaming
> it to rioc (rio clone)?
How about no.
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Aram Hăvărneanu
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