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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p and how can I know when a write is finished
Date: Fri,  3 Mar 2006 02:49:58 +0100
From: uriel@cat-v.org
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> uriel@cat-v.org wrote:
>
>> What is wrong with gpsfs(8)?
>
> damn, another thing I missed. I will look at it, sigh. I should RTFM more.

It's not surprising almost no one has noticed about it, the only
application that I know that uses it(EFIS) remains unreleased for
unknown reasons despite my repeated requests.  *sigh*

Oh, and the man page index doesn't contain any reference to gpsfs(8)

Any reason why /sys/lib/man/lookman/mkindex is not run automatically?
There seems to be quite a few things missing from the index.  (The
comment at the bottom of man(1) about lack of automatic way of
keeping indexes uptodate can probably be removed.)


> Although, I may want my gpsfs to produce s-expressions.

Oh, yea, because s-expressions are so much easier to parse with awk...
I think we should replace /adm/users to use s-expressions too, and
/proc/$pid/ns should also be s-expressions!  And next we replace rc
with a scheme interpreter...

I love scheme, and s-expressions are a billion times better than XML
will ever be, but I'm starting to suspect s-expressions fanboys are
not too different from XML zealots and think s-expressions should be
used for everything everywhere.

S-expressions are not much better than XML when dealing with them from
a Unix/Plan 9 shell, and I can think of very few, if any, cases where
they might be justified, specially having in mind that the file system
already can provide a hierarchical structure.

uriel