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Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
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thank you.  i suppose the .renamin technique was adopted to allow
patching binaries.  to draw things back to plan 9,
i thought the following rule was interesting:

``for a binary to expect a file at a specific full pathname is bad practice.''

curiously, that is regarded as standard practice and
perhaps even essential for both Plan 9 and Inferno.
o tempora, o mores!


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From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
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>
> >>BTW, the stuff I HAVE basically silently been informed won't be going into
> >>the Linus Linux tree is my stuff to support booting to /.sbi/init so that
> >>the dirnames the user sees can be internationalized or otherwise
> >>localized. 2 execve's in init/main.c.
>
> i didn't understand this bit.
>
>

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Rick Hohensee

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