From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
To: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>,
"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:38:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twig.1271072334.96091@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h2y8ccc8ba41004120346q1eb06529rb2349ed94be004ea@mail.gmail.com>
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Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> said:
> you could also use a script to call 9vx as you please.
That is what I did for the first prototype. I thought this would be a beeter
solution.
Out of curiosity, have I hit a nerve or something. Have I somehow offended?
I'm just a bit confused by some of the responses.
I could easily understand the reluctance if there are some standardization
issues with getenv on the targeted platforms I do not know about. I could
also understand if I was proposing to put it in some weird location, but both
of the hard-coded paths in 9vx main.c are obviously in RSC's home directories
and not more generic locations like /home/9vx, $home/9vx, /usr/local/9vx, /opt...
EBo --
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:22 AM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Why isn't 9vx -r yourdir good enough?
> >
> > it is if you want to force all users to specify the root directory every
> > single time they run 9vx, or if you want to use an alternative root. If
I use
> > a standard install locations then we can either change "/Users/rsc/9vx" and
> > "/home/rsc/plan9/4e" or I can simply run a sed script during the build phase.
> > Setting up a $root9vx (what I have changed it to) seemed the cleanest
approach.
> >
> > EBo --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 10:13 [9fans] how about intel D510MO Alex
2010-04-08 3:53 ` John Barham
2010-04-08 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:06 ` [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 EBo
2010-04-11 17:11 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 17:48 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:52 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 21:01 ` [9fans] /sys/lib/newuser patch EBo
2010-04-11 21:48 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-11 22:04 ` EBo
2010-04-11 23:06 ` Iruata Souza
2010-04-12 3:58 ` EBo
2010-04-11 23:19 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-12 3:49 ` EBo
2010-04-12 5:34 ` EBo
2010-04-12 12:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 13:13 ` EBo
2010-04-12 13:28 ` hiro
2010-04-12 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 14:11 ` hiro
2010-04-12 14:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-12 14:40 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 15:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-12 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-12 15:08 ` hiro
2010-04-12 15:23 ` hiro
2010-04-13 2:23 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-13 2:53 ` EBo
2010-04-13 3:14 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-04-13 3:23 ` EBo
2010-04-13 4:05 ` EBo
2010-04-12 13:38 ` EBo
2010-04-13 13:37 ` maht
2010-04-13 13:59 ` EBo
2010-04-11 18:03 ` [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 EBo
2010-04-11 17:32 ` EBo
2010-04-11 17:42 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-11 17:47 ` EBo
2010-04-12 0:43 ` Russ Cox
2010-04-12 3:22 ` EBo
2010-04-12 10:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-12 11:38 ` EBo [this message]
2010-04-12 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-13 4:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-13 5:20 ` EBo
2010-04-13 5:43 ` Skip Tavakkolian
[not found] ` <43c85712dd833ad7544f72b7c66a3b2e@9netics.com>
2010-04-13 6:19 ` EBo
2010-04-13 6:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-13 6:47 ` EBo
2010-04-14 16:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-14 18:10 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:23 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-14 18:33 ` lucio
2010-04-14 18:38 ` EBo
2010-04-14 22:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 0:30 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-15 4:32 ` Russ Cox
2010-04-15 6:48 ` EBo
2010-04-15 8:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 7:39 ` EBo
2010-04-15 9:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 13:55 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-15 14:01 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:36 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-14 18:50 ` EBo
2010-04-14 18:44 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-04-14 19:01 ` EBo
2010-04-15 8:44 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-04-15 10:11 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-15 13:06 ` EBo
2010-04-15 14:29 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2010-04-15 15:38 ` hiro
2010-04-16 7:52 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-16 12:08 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-16 8:20 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-16 10:57 ` hiro
2010-04-26 8:43 ` [9fans] how about intel D510MO Pavel Klinkovsky
2010-04-15 16:52 [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9 Chad Brown
2010-04-15 17:03 ` erik quanstrom
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