Re: [9fans] syscall 53

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> 	Is this the right place to discuss the actual procedure to include
> 	apatch in one's private Bell Labs' distribution?
>
> 	Is it preferable to use apatch within 9atom, or is it reasonably
> 	portable to the "legacy" (I presume that is what David intends
> 	with that moniker) distribution?

apatch is as specialized as patch in that it creates patches against the current
9atom tree.  patch is still there, and i often generate parallel patches for both
9atom and sources.  as long as your source hasn't drifted wrt the atom tree,
you can send an apatch from a 9atom, hybride or standard tree.

> 	Is there a willing participant who is prepared to offer backing
> 	storage for the target distribution(s) even when he or she
> 	disagrees with the outcome?  (And be vociferous both about
> 	disagreeing and accepting the outcome?) David, you've been good
> 	that way, are there others?  I'd like to think that we can
> 	leverage Plan 9's distributable properties to have more than one?
> 	I'd like to offer this myself, but I live at the bottom of an
> 	Internet gravity well, anyone with sufficient patience is welcome
> 	to approach me.

you are aware that you can mount the 9atom sources directly these days?

  nflag=-n srv $nflag -q tcp!atom.9atom.org atom /n/atom atom	# add to 9fs

- erik