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From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
Date: Wed,  6 Apr 2011 15:27:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zko3jt7n.fsf@cmarib.ramside> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=yFornXsZWuBhmAqufXj5seMhGNw@mail.gmail.com> (Yaroslav's message of "Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:50:12 +0300")

Yaroslav <yarikos@gmail.com> writes:

>> than appropriate for a line-oriented language like rc(1).  As it stands,
>> rc(1) can have it's cake, but it can't eat it without a fork(2).
>
> As it was stated earlier, a fork(2) is rather cheap here, so what's
> your concern then?
> Maybe it's time to forget the lectures about expensive forks and just cary on?

That was supposed to be a joke.  Apparently, no body got (or read) it.
:(

> I bet you won't even notice much changes in your stats -c graph.

Just moving my mouse causes change in my stats -cs graph, driving both
measurements up to 75% or so.  When the system is at all loaded, the
mouse doesn't respond at all.  (Which makes it kind of hard to use the
system, given that it's mouse-based!)  I wish there were a way to renice
usb/kb...

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-06 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-03 22:30 smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-04-03 23:22 ` pmarin
2011-04-03 23:41 ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04  2:02   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-04  2:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04  7:54     ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04  9:26     ` roger peppe
2011-04-04 21:35       ` smiley
2011-04-04 21:46         ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-04 22:03           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05  8:57           ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-04 22:00         ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2011-04-04 22:33         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 23:01         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-04-05  8:58         ` yy
2011-04-05 19:54           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-05 19:56             ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 20:54               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-05 21:53                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-06 16:32                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-06 16:43                     ` roger peppe
2011-04-06 18:15                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-06 18:37                         ` Yaroslav
2011-04-07  8:45                           ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-06 18:18                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07  8:45                     ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-05  9:10         ` roger peppe
2011-04-05 15:47           ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 15:52             ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-05 15:57               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:04               ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-04-05 17:17                 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 17:49             ` smiley
2011-04-05 18:01               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 19:50               ` Yaroslav
2011-04-06 15:27                 ` smiley [this message]
2011-04-06 15:32                   ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-07  1:26                     ` [9fans] Busy mouse WAS: " smiley
2011-04-07 11:49                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07 19:59                         ` smiley
2011-04-07 20:19                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-09 12:26                             ` smiley
2011-04-09 12:33                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:28         ` [9fans] " dexen deVries
2011-04-05 17:05         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-03 23:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-04-04  3:01 ` erik quanstrom

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