From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:42:20 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum & invalid entries In-Reply-To: <4b12bf2586840d19f90100f81874ac0c@vitanuova.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4b12bf2586840d19f90100f81874ac0c@vitanuova.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0547c326-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > - When you add a new key with the ctl file, here is what happens. > > If there is already a key in factotum with exactly the same set > > of public attr=val pairs, that key is replaced with the new one > > and stays at the same place in the list. Otherwise, the new key > > is appended to the list. > > does that mean it's now not possible to add a new key to the beginning > of the list (the old default)? Yes, that functionality is gone. No one ever seemed to need it, and I don't know the right way to express it. I left the machinery that made it possible. In general I think it's better not to use ambiguous key patterns. Russ