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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] @{cd ...} breaks completion with ctrl-f/ins; help needed
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:24:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.2.00.0810281512180.6188@gollum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00810281441m1e765317sb199e277769e4afb@mail.gmail.com>

> 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...

Yes, I realized after I hit send that I wasn't very clear about what I was
trying to say. I wasn't trying to address the wdir issue, but your
allusion to the namespace behaviour not making sense. Knowing how
and why namespaces work as they do is critical to understanding and using
Plan 9. It's important that you read and understand the names.ps paper and
then spend time experimenting with namespaces. For most people it's the
hardest part of the system to wrap your brain around, but once you get it
your universe gets a lot bigger very quickly.

--lyndon



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28  9:42 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-28 10:04 ` Steve Simon
2008-10-28 15:14   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-28 15:30     ` Rob Pike
2008-10-28 16:27       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-28 17:16         ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-28 17:26           ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-10-28 17:21         ` Russ Cox
2008-10-28 21:17     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-10-28 21:41       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-28 22:24         ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2008-10-28 10:54 ` matt
2008-10-28 15:15   ` Rudolf Sykora

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