From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 21:24:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011062124.02625.dexen.devries@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=d0fGY5Va7NwJvogDRvZ-gNAWPUcuL1Q2iOitS@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday 06 of November 2010 03:20:55 Bruce Ellis wrote:
> i can answer that one easily. that's why it's called mash rather than
> "random marketting name". the intention was to replace plan9 rc with a
> shell that was maintainable and had loadable modules. i wrote it in
> limbo to show it works, damned well. the first requirement was a make
> loadable. it's not built into mash, it's loadable. a few pages of code
> that uses the shell rather than mk's builtin shell like stuff.
Why loadable modules and what kind of modules were expected to be of frequent
use? Also, would the modules only provide new commands, or could they add
whole semantics and/or syntax constructs?
--
dexen
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2010-11-04 9:36 Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 9:47 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-04 10:20 ` Steve Simon
2010-11-04 11:30 ` Brantley Coile
2010-11-04 15:39 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 15:55 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 16:01 ` John Floren
2010-11-04 16:39 ` ron minnich
2010-11-04 16:57 ` Stanley Lieber
2010-11-04 17:01 ` Don Bailey
2010-11-04 17:19 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-04 22:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-05 1:41 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-05 3:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05 7:11 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-05 7:55 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-05 13:31 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-05 15:16 ` C H Forsyth
2010-11-05 17:07 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:18 ` Nick LaForge
2010-11-05 17:32 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:39 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-05 17:55 ` dexen deVries
2010-11-05 17:45 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-05 18:14 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-05 18:37 ` roger peppe
2010-11-05 19:06 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-08 11:04 ` roger peppe
2010-11-08 21:24 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-08 22:25 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-08 22:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-09 2:10 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-11-09 3:18 ` EBo
2010-11-09 8:10 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-13 19:15 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-05 20:37 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-06 0:55 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-06 2:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-11-06 20:24 ` dexen deVries [this message]
2010-11-05 18:43 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-13 19:24 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-14 2:17 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 5:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14 6:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 8:13 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 15:56 ` Jacob Todd
2010-11-14 16:24 ` ron minnich
2010-11-14 6:26 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14 8:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-11-14 15:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 17:46 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-14 22:16 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-14 9:10 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 9:32 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-14 10:22 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 10:50 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-14 11:47 ` tlaronde
2010-11-14 21:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-11-14 21:47 ` Ori Bernstein
2010-11-18 5:30 ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-18 5:57 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 22:50 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-19 2:06 ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-11-19 3:13 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-11-25 9:39 ` Greg Comeau
2010-11-15 4:29 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15 5:05 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2010-11-15 15:48 ` Dan Cross
2010-11-15 16:24 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-15 17:26 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-11-16 3:32 ` lucio
2010-11-16 4:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 5:09 ` lucio
2010-11-16 22:18 ` Christopher Nielsen
2010-11-15 18:11 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-11-15 20:04 ` Steve Simon
[not found] ` <79E9F966-3C4E-44D9-8B1F-D22C9548CE74@gnu.org>
2010-11-15 1:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-15 4:17 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-11-15 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17 23:48 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-04 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-04 17:12 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 17:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-11-04 17:30 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-04 20:27 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-04 12:15 dexen deVries
2010-11-04 12:48 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-11-04 17:14 ` Admiral Fukov
2010-11-17 7:38 Pavel Zholkover
2010-11-17 7:44 ` Lucio De Re
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