Re: [9fans] Re: plan9port: recent changes

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

i don't like autoindent ... it always seems to do what i don't
want it to do, the tab key is big, and i don't write deeply
nested code.  but if you do - fine ... make it an option (i hate
thousands of options too).

good to see a prolifertion of factota - the ozinferno one is even
simpler than the original, but loads modules on demand to do
the good stuff.

brucee

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:09:34 -0500, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> A few people have reported that running acme and exiting
> leaves behind a 9pserve process with the effect that you can't
> run acme a second time.  I believe I just checked in a fix to this bug,
> which I introduced trying to work around the pthread nonsense
> we were discussing last week.  After updating from CVS, you'll
> have to rebuild libthread and then 9pserve (or just use
> cd $PLAN9; ./INSTALL -- it's still much faster than compiling the
> Linux kernel).
>
> It's worth noting for everyone that you can't run two acmes in
> the same "name space" since they'll both want to post as the Unix
> socket `namespace`/acme.  If you want to start a new "name space"
> you can set $NAMESPACE manually, as in
>
>    mkdir /tmp/ns; NAMESPACE=/tmp/ns; export NAMESPACE
>
> and then you'll have a separate acme that is isolated from the
> first (and from the plumber that the first acme is using).
>
> Intro(4) has details.
>
> Setting $NAMESPACE also lets you run file servers before you
> start X and share them with your X session.  For example, in my
> .profile I have the following:
>
> # Logging in on tty1 sets up factotum and then runs X automatically
> if [ "`/bin/ls -l /proc/self/fd/0 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $NF}'`" =
> '/dev/tty1' ]
> then
>        NAMESPACE=/tmp/ns.`hostname`
>        export NAMESPACE
>        rm -rf $NAMESPACE; mkdir $NAMESPACE
>        9 factotum
>        eval `9 ssh-agent -e`
>        startx
> fi
>
> I have to start factotum and ssh-agent before X because I run
> stats to remote machines (via ssh) in my .xinitrc, and so that
> the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable is set in all my X windows.
>
> Russ
>