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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm dies when my mac book sleeps by 9p design?
Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 23:51:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2afa83afd3307c426eb6d22a3fe0d290@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307044435.691F9B827@mail.bitblocks.com>

> I routinely leave ssh, xterm etc. alive for weeks on end and
> my macbookpro puts itself to sleep a few times a day!  Even
> when I used to take my laptop to work, no connexion broke as
> long as avoided accidentally typing in the window (which would
> generate traffic).

now that's robust.

back to the problem at hand, lets suppose that the mac doesn't
generate keep alive traffic, and lets suppose that plan 9 doesn't either,
it's going to be hard to come up with a drawterm setup that is useful and
has no programs that walk /dev by doing things like calling time().

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07  0:35 Fernan Bolando
2011-03-07  2:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  3:31   ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  3:34     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  4:15       ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:17         ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  4:25         ` ron minnich
2011-03-07  4:44           ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:51             ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-07  5:38               ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:49           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-07  5:00             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  8:54           ` Anthony Sorace

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