From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Authentication and "emu -d"
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Mon,  4 Jun 2001 10:12:34 +0100
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that really is inferno-specific, so we'll answer it in detail on that list.

i'd thought we left -d deliberately undocumented
but i see it is there in the manual page after all.

>>Also, starting "emu -d1" from cpurc seems to do ugly things to the
>>keyboard/input interface, the console no longer echoes.  And output
>>should probably be redirected to a log file, too.  Something for the

this is just the superficial reason i intended to leave it
undocumented.  it was left in the code because one group might have
been using it at the time, under Solaris, for which it was originally
hacked in (where hacked is the right description), in a hurry.  i
suppose you could wonder: if it can't cope with the console correctly,
how is it likely to do on the hard bits?  that gets close to the
truth.  it does only what it was intended to do,
but doesn't go far enough, even though they did hire a web page designer!
anyway, someone will send more about it to the inferno list later.