From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] environment + functions
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:16:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6D73C1E6-8F03-43A6-BF0F-03FADE8C33D9@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00810081152i2fdd24e6gf4f2fab9988e53b4@mail.gmail.com>
On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
>
>
> So, if I continuously want to add and remove functions within one
> shell (running hypothetically forever), do I have to 'manually'
> delete those empty left-behind files? --- that is, not only use
> fn name_that_I _don't_need
> but also
> rm /env/'fn#name_that_I _don't_need' ?
>
> No.
>
> Well... that's an answer, but not very constructive indeed. When do
> those files dissapear?
> R.
When the namespace disappears.
You can ignore the file even being there. There is a difference
between the file and how the program uses them. If the program (rc)
doesn't have a function given a name but /env does, it makes no
difference. rc will overwrite the file when you redefine the function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 18:31 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-07 18:33 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-07 18:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-08 10:58 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-08 18:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-08 18:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-08 19:12 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-08 19:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-10-08 19:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-08 11:35 erik quanstrom
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