9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [9fans] change in root(3)
@ 2003-05-16 21:56 Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2003-05-16 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

/sys/man/3/root says
          The syntax `#/' is illegal, so this device can only be
          accessed directly by the kernel.

however, #/ works perfectly.

The change is just to delete that paragraph.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
  2003-05-16 21:56 [9fans] change in root(3) Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:07   ` Russ Cox
                     ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2003-05-19  7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> however, #/ works perfectly.

Perfectly is perhaps an overstatement.
Try ls `{ls '#/'}.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
  2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-05-19  7:07   ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-05-19  7:30   ` Geoff Collyer
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2003-05-19  7:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> Perfectly is perhaps an overstatement.
> Try ls `{ls '#/'}.

Sigh.  I meant ls `{ls -Q '#/'}.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
  2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:07   ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-05-19  7:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-05-19  7:11     ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:30   ` Geoff Collyer
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2003-05-19  7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 139 bytes --]

I know. But the best way to avoid that would be, IMHO, to
rename it not to use /. We could just rename it to #F and then
it would work.

[-- Attachment #2: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 1462 bytes --]

From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 03:05:19 -0400
Message-ID: <f08c4fc8f53eebcf162c105a092831d8@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> however, #/ works perfectly.

Perfectly is perhaps an overstatement.
Try ls `{ls '#/'}.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
  2003-05-19  7:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2003-05-19  7:11     ` Russ Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2003-05-19  7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

It's meant to be special.  I'd rather fix namec.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [9fans] change in root(3)
  2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:07   ` Russ Cox
  2003-05-19  7:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
@ 2003-05-19  7:30   ` Geoff Collyer
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Collyer @ 2003-05-19  7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I used to use '#/.' successfully when '#/' by itself didn't work.  Now
"ls '#/.'" and "ls '#/'" produce the same output, perhaps due to
cleanname.  "ls '#/'*" definitely produces strange output, though.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2003-05-19  7:30 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2003-05-16 21:56 [9fans] change in root(3) Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-05-19  7:05 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19  7:07   ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19  7:09   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-05-19  7:11     ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19  7:30   ` Geoff Collyer

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).