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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:44:05 +0200
From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Implementing cooked mode
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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.

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