From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:38:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <359f32486400e783d8002c397ca456e8@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205300611.q4U6BC3Q023598@freefriends.org>
> 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.
you won't know if you don't try. :-) chroot yourself or something.
or, you can do it in the source pretty easily. awk is the perfect tool
for the job. :-) you could change every /sys/... to /9/sys/...
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 6:11 arnold
2012-05-30 12:38 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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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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