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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:41:58 +0100
From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] @{cd ...} breaks completion with ctrl-f/ins; help needed
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> When a rc forks a subshell the child shares the namespace with the parent.
> If you want the child rc to divorce its namespace from the parent, have it
> issue 'rfork n'.

This is true, but I am afraid it doesn't have much connection to the problem.
Even if you 'rfork n' (and have a copy of the namespace) the file
/dev/wdir is simply the same file in both namespaces...
Ruda