* [9fans] /n convention history?
@ 2014-01-13 8:32 fgergo
2014-01-13 8:44 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: fgergo @ 2014-01-13 8:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
When I first met plan9 (2nd ed) I realized that /n was a very powerful
ordering concept. (Since then I usually create a /n or ~/n on every
unix where I will use mount to customize my ns.)
I'd like to know
- what's the story of /n? (why was it invented?)
- what does n stand for? (a set of n things?)
thanks,
fgergo
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* Re: [9fans] /n convention history?
2014-01-13 8:32 [9fans] /n convention history? fgergo
@ 2014-01-13 8:44 ` Bruce Ellis
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From: Bruce Ellis @ 2014-01-13 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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/n was introduced (i believe) in 8th edition for weinberger's neta (and
later netb) remote filesystem.
there was a directory in /n for each remote machine. the gmount() system
call was used to mount a stream, usually a datakit connection, to the
remote machine. it was great.
brucee
On 13 January 2014 19:32, <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I first met plan9 (2nd ed) I realized that /n was a very powerful
> ordering concept. (Since then I usually create a /n or ~/n on every
> unix where I will use mount to customize my ns.)
> I'd like to know
> - what's the story of /n? (why was it invented?)
> - what does n stand for? (a set of n things?)
> thanks,
> fgergo
>
>
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