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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:36:52 +0400
From: Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru>
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Subject: [9fans] rc scripting questions
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Hello.

I use plan9 with drawterm under ms windows. I know the system very 
partial. So I'd like to ask some questions about rc scripting.

1) Rc seems to create new processes in the same process group as itself. 
So for example child process share it's environment variables with it's 
parent (rc). Is it wise? Any unix like scripts need to call rfork as 
their first command. Why is it so?

2) I'd like to get random numbers in rc script, but awk 'BEGIN { print 
rand }' allways give the same number. How can I get random numbers in rc 
scripts?

3) Is there any concept like unix sessions in plan9? If I cpu into the 
cpu server any program I've started will run until it suicide. Is it 
right? What should I do to end my drawterm session? How can I kill every 
process I've stated?

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Victor Nazarov
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