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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 06:11:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205300611.q4U6BC3Q023598@freefriends.org> (raw)

Thanks to everyone for the advice.

> On Tue May 29 23:48:31 EDT 2012, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> > short hardcoded paths are an advantage. this is not linux. this
> > is plan9. there are rules. the kernel already provides a way for
> > indirection that works for *everything*. mount/bind and private
> > namespaces.
>
> while this is all true, and i agree with you, the problem at hand it
> to get things formatted on linux.

Right. The problem is that Linux already has a /sys directory. Who knows
what would break if I mount over that.

Thanks,

Arnold



             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-30  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-30  6:11 arnold [this message]
2012-05-30 12:38 ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-24 19:03 Aharon Robbins
2012-05-25 19:08 ` pmarin
2012-05-29 20:46   ` Aharon Robbins
2012-05-29 21:05     ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-30  3:44     ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-30  4:03       ` erik quanstrom

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