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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plumb menu option not working
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:22:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0fa74e7532ac77143a12da62bb3a0ac@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52b521cff51d9263ade1aad1ab7c2510@quintile.net>

On Wed Mar 12 10:09:35 EDT 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> The plumber must be able to see the file in its namespace, it probably
> cannot in this case.

it can also be an issue of working directory.  if /path/to/file plumbs, but
file does not, then it's a working directory issue.

> But the plan9 plumber even much more flexible than that, as you can
> start concurrent plumber in one system or mount remote plumbers to
> exchange data with remote machines.  So the concepts just feels like
> Copy&Paste Operations on the first glimpse, but can be extended to get
> you completely confused, when you don't know what you're doing.

do you have a practical use for this?

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-12 13:10 Steve Foster
2014-03-12 14:07 ` Steve Simon
2014-03-12 14:26   ` Steve Foster
2014-03-12 15:22   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-03-12 15:27     ` Jacob Todd
2014-03-12 15:30       ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-12 14:34 ` ikrabbe.ask
2014-03-12 17:47 ` Friedrich Psiorz

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