From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>,
"Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:48:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twig.1271314095.55725@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j2udd6fe68a1004142132q919d5c05ta04a653d3706b460@mail.gmail.com>
> I don't mind adding more directories to the list in findroot,
> and something like /usr/local/9vx is certainly a better entry
> in that list than /home/rsc/plan9/4e (sorry).
no apologies necessary. I actually liked Ethan Grammatikidis' last comments
regarding adding standard the standard locations.
> What I didn't understand was the rationale behind putting
> in a new environment variable when there is already a
> command-line option. The argument about being right
> for the users is bogus: the amount of work required to
> make all users have the right environment variable setting
> is about the same as the amount of work required to
> make all users pass the right -r flag.
what I had meant is simply that when a user tries to run a program which has
been installed system wide it should simply work. If writing a shell script
around the exe is considered a better way to go about it then I'm good with it.
EBo --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 6:48 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
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 [this message]
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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