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From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Implementing cooked mode
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:44:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070215174405.GB13960@XTL.antioffline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc99ff5395b785cb5e865cc165208cd9@coraid.com>

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:37:31PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> plan 9 has a different attitude about the console than linux.
> one can't interrupt a program running at a console.  the console
> is there for bringing a machine up.  nobody wants to work at the
> console.

You can't actually interrupt a program on console in Linux either,
unless you have init and things running underneath.

It's only funny so many times to forget to give a count to ping when
doing .. something .. in the initrd shell before it mounts root.

-- 
Topi ajatteli hoitaa kuntoaan polkemalla televisiota
katsellessa kuntopyörää.
	-- Ilta-Sanomat 19.2.94


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-21  1:37 erik quanstrom
2007-02-15 17:44 ` Harri Haataja [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-21  0:54 Joel Salomon
2006-12-21  1:08 ` Russ Cox
2006-12-21  1:47   ` Russ Cox
2006-12-21 12:50     ` Brantley Coile

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