Re: [9fans] bug in rio: unhiding deleted windows

["Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1596 bytes --]

two points
> 1.  you can run rio in a rio window so you can debug
> rio without fiddling with your root rio.
>

True, but what happened to me was that I did not want to do any debugging. I
wanted to work, i.e. use the computer in the conventional sense -- do sth.
for my school. And you do not usually run rio in rio just for fun in that
case. And then sth. bad happens. And you are ... Actually, this might just
have happened when the bug we're talking about was found -- by chance, it
just happened unexpectedly.
On the other hand, If you know in advance... you run rio in rio. But again,
not my case.
What I am still convinced about is that always having a way to run a shell
is invaluable.


> 2.  if you're not running the fileserver on your cpu server,
> it's always safe to reboot.  in fact, the dozen or so cpu
> servers that i manage are rebooted by pulling the plug.
> this is one of my favorite features of plan 9's architecture.


Yes, I know.


>
> i'm not sure why you can't have a dedicated fileserver
>

It's not a question of money... but thanks for your recommendations. :)
The main reason is I run plan9 only on one of my notebooks (otherwise I use
linux machines since plan9 doesn't have a bit of the software I crucially
need). And I want to be able to work on it, even though it is not at the
moment connected to any network. I need to have my files with me. Is that
enough?

So once more and to conclude, wouldn't it be nice to be able to press
something like ctrl-alt-backspace to, by some means guarantee a way to a
shell?

Ruda

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2238 bytes --]