From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] backwards-incompatible changes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:43:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303260143.h2Q1hOt20381@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:58:45 EST." <272f30affaea63d326103dc12299cace@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> First, namespace files now have a `.' syntax to include
> other files.
Hooray! But,
> /lib/namespace will include /lib/namespace.$sysname.
> Thus, namespace.$sysname will become additions to the
> default name space rather than replacing it. To prepare for
> this change, add the line ``clear'' to the top of any
> namespace.$sysname files you have. The old code
> will ignore it, and the new code will do rfork(RFCNAMEG)
> when it sees it. Once you are running the new code
> everywhere, you can trim your namespace.$sysname
> files considerably.
Ick. Why not include a /lib/namespace.local, which can do things as it
sees fit? The rationale here is that one can keep /lib/namespace the
same as on sources (reducing the maintenance burden), but provide much
the same functionality (/lib/namespace.local can include
/lib/addns.$sysname or something similar).
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-26 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-25 21:58 Russ Cox
2003-03-26 1:43 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-03-26 1:53 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-26 2:09 ` Dan Cross
2003-03-26 2:20 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-26 2:34 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-03-26 1:35 Russ Cox
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