From: "Richard Bilson" <rcbilson@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:40:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <676c3c4f0607120740j11f76e77vc3dd7e4ae7ad6f90@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/12/06, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
>
> Going back to my question about the top-10, I remember that it was very
> hard to me to understand why
> bind / /
> was there after I did a
> bind -b whatever /
>
> Now it seems clear and very simple, but it was not at all for me initially.
For me, the whole idea of "bind" confused me, because I expected more
from it -- I thought it would be more like a BSD-style union mount. It
took a while for me to realize that it's actually a much simpler
mechanism designed to solve a different problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-12 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 18:52 Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-11 18:55 ` Rob Pike
2006-07-11 19:03 ` jmk
2006-07-11 18:58 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-07-11 20:18 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-11 20:29 ` Corey
2006-07-11 20:40 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-12 3:49 ` Jack Johnson
2006-07-12 11:09 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-12 14:40 ` Richard Bilson [this message]
2006-07-12 16:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-12 16:41 ` csant
2006-07-12 18:45 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 4:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-13 5:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-11 21:50 ` David Leimbach
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