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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'cd' into non-existent directory?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:25:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190902130525r5bbd4fb0x7f9828f67866e905@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940902130428v1393b513n1c448717dfa3dec@mail.gmail.com>

I find it kind of ironic that Anthony is replying to a "missing
directory" question. Please check the requests on the list that i
could not satisfy and put together the pieces.

your humble servant.

brucee

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 9fs, for example.
>
> i can do '9fs arbitrary-machine', and not have to worry about whether
> /n/arbitrary-machine has been created ahead of time or now. that's the
> most common use. without it, you'd have to create mount points in
> advance of knowing what sets of things you'd want to mount.
>
> it has downsides, like your "phantom cd", which is why it's only used
> where it makes sense.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 10:23 Pavel Klinkovsky
2009-02-13 10:39 ` Felipe Bichued
2009-02-13 10:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-02-13 11:48 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2009-02-13 12:28   ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-13 13:25     ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2009-02-13 13:27   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2009-02-13 13:34     ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-13 14:17       ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-13 20:21         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-02-15 20:33           ` Bruce Ellis

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