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* [9fans] namespace file parsing
@ 2004-02-04  8:00 Skip Tavakkolian
  2004-02-04 10:20 ` Charles Forsyth
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2004-02-04  8:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I (painfully) discovered that directives like the following in
/lib/namespace(.$sysname) were being silently ignored
due to the quotes around the #device name:

bind -b '#l1' /net.alt
# etc.

I think this is confusing because, as in rc, '#' is also used
for comments.




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* Re: [9fans] namespace file parsing
  2004-02-04  8:00 [9fans] namespace file parsing Skip Tavakkolian
@ 2004-02-04 10:20 ` Charles Forsyth
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Charles Forsyth @ 2004-02-04 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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perhaps it should use tokenize not getfields.

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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] namespace file parsing
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:00:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1fcf5d80367946a3885242303a2b4002@centurytel.net>

I (painfully) discovered that directives like the following in
/lib/namespace(.$sysname) were being silently ignored
due to the quotes around the #device name:

bind -b '#l1' /net.alt
# etc.

I think this is confusing because, as in rc, '#' is also used
for comments.

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