From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] molesting the acme filesystem
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:36:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60607141036h1e6f3455n77cb773cb981f333@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B7D4B5.3070808@lanl.gov>
On 7/14/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> >
> >> i'm not sure why acme and other plan9 filesystems typically disallow a
> >> trailing newline
> >> on input and don't provide one on output.
> >
> >
> > Yup. This one is my top entry for the confusomatic contest.
>
> I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for
> removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here.
>
> ron
>
But some of them are clearly inserting newlines, like event and they
require one as well to be a completed "event".
I don't care about perfection as much as I do about consistency (and
that it works... it could have just been consistently broken too I
suppose) :-)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-14 1:24 David Leimbach
2006-07-14 2:54 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 5:12 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-14 12:07 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 16:46 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-07-14 17:30 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-14 17:29 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:48 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-14 17:43 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:36 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-07-14 17:37 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-14 17:33 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:44 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-14 17:35 ` David Leimbach
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