From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
Message-Id: <200403170907.i2H97psH083854@adat.davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice question - run as other
In-Reply-To: <36fa252fff9f4cb8ae8642352754b58d@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:07:51 +0400
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> >>My question was how to do the same from rc. 
> >>@{echo -n none > '#c/user' ; while() {sleep 1} }
> >>succeeds but does not change the owner of the process. Why?
>
> aha! when that message arrived, i was just writing one to point out that you need to take
> care that you stay in the same process as changes #c/user.  in the case above,
> it does indeed change for the process that writes to #c/user (ie, the echo -n none)
> but of course that process ends, and the parent shell carries on to run
> 	while() {...}
> which happens in a different process from the echo!
>

Thank you for the comment. I really don't realize a simple thing.
Will go and look into the source code of rc. I thought redirection
would mean I would modify rc's #c/user. I don't understand something
basic.

Thanks again