From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e01499f169b0756f8b2ff199514cee2@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Okay, who's been playing with the cheese wiz? From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: <3d4c69fd5fe4e31a00c344b8faf39623@vitanuova.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:36:10 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55e2b76e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 srv -e serves execnet's original purpose now. it's nice to have a wrapper that creates the service if necessary, recreates it on hangup, and so on. mount >{command} /mnt/xxx strikes me as an idiom that is clumsy at best. every time i see it, it takes a few minutes to remember why it works at all -- the syntax would have you believe that the pipe would be open only for writing. if there were better notation, you might convince me. also there's a lot to be said for defaults. there is one real problem, which is that the servers would all need to know to rfork(RFNAMEG) at start, so that they don't hold up their own service ref counts.