Re: [9fans] faces and the plumb messages received by cpu connections

["Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>]

hello

thanks all for the comments.

i suppose an rc script is enough to add
the cpu'ed mailbox to the local one without
having a pre-configured script, to get faces and
upasfs working with cpued hosts.

gabi


On 3/16/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> Plumber is working fine.  You simply asked it to connect
> two programs inappropriately -- an upas/nedmail running
> in one name space with an upas/fs running in a different
> name space.
>
> If, on the other hand, you were also running acme Mail
> in the cpu window, then everything would have worked out
> fine, even though plumber and faces are on different
> machines from upas/fs and Mail.
>
> Embedding machine names in messages attacks the
> generality and power of the system.
>
> Plan 9 relies heavily on its conventions.  If you break the
> conventions, sometimes the system doesn't work as well
> (bind /net/tcp /proc && ps).
>
> But being able to break the conventions is important and
> powerful, because if you break them just a little, sometimes
> the system works even better (import helix /proc && acid 123;
> sshnet; snapfs; bind /mnt/term/net/tcp /net/tcp && ssh; etc.).
>
> Russ
>