From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:07:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190806242107t2bf903bp7dee48f968f6e674@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080625025820.185ED1E8C3A@holo.morphisms.net>
where is dan? he's a fine man.
brucee
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> why do files in /n exist on the distributed image?
>> when would they be necessary?
>
> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
> there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
> looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
> came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.
>
> before i poked through the archives, i would have
> credited dan cross with the idea. is dan still on this list?
>
> russ
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 18:19 erik quanstrom
2008-06-25 3:00 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-25 3:01 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-25 4:07 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-06-25 9:54 ` roger peppe
2008-06-25 10:38 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-25 10:43 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-26 0:17 ` Dan Cross
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