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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] rio wishlists
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:54:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39c448c0-c50d-4db8-b3d6-6c7960bfe688@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XPHOhVuSgyv2MtCbaP_4DV3KDRZ+xB0K+LbYrXE1CVBag@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, at 8:19 AM, hiro wrote:
>  i like the idea of having only one layer of namespace separation in rio, i.e.
> windows inside a subrio could all just share the same parent ns. would be
> useful for me not to have to post every window's ns ressources in a
> /srv. and the top-level rio would still allow separation (and by
> default).
> not sure i need a window manager for that :)
> 
> the main problem is that right now rio terminals have their own ns so
> that they can have their own /dev/* files per window, bound there for
> them by rio.
> but there should be a way to allow partial sharing of namespaces, i.e.
> all other files.

If all programs prefixed an environment variable to their /dev files, rio wouldn't need to namespace at all, just fork the environment for each window (rfork e). Most of the prefixing cases could be handled by small changes to existing libraries.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <134490038A9377D966659F986F257F34@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-01-17 14:43 ` [9front] Bounties Ethan Gardener
2020-01-17 16:05   ` kvik
2020-01-17 21:55     ` Silas McCroskey
2020-01-18  0:23       ` rio wishlists Lyndon Nerenberg
2020-01-18  0:40         ` [9front] " Stanley Lieber
     [not found]           ` <CAFSF3XNfdhb+ViOBmVMQ+5+PnSjCeD+9a9p9e4Ug0EX9==aZvw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-18  8:19             ` hiro
2020-01-18  9:53               ` Steve Simon
2020-01-18 10:19                 ` hiro
2020-01-21  8:54               ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2020-01-21  8:57         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-21  9:49           ` hiro
2020-01-22 16:30             ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-22 16:47               ` hiro
2020-01-23 15:09                 ` Ethan Gardener
     [not found]                   ` <CAK0pxsHVpyae1+teTSOAFp=nBoq_r7-aKexh_X=hEDe7hUcReA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <CAK0pxsFDk=C_+37tKzU=U-TMQLTPcW6MOQ1sgKNBrYhWrj4Bwg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-23 18:12                       ` Marshall Conover
2020-01-23 21:23                         ` hiro
2020-01-23 22:42                           ` Julius Schmidt
2020-01-24  0:39                             ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-24  0:44                               ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-23 23:50                         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-24  0:59                           ` Jeremy Jackins
2020-01-24 10:04                             ` hiro
2020-01-21  8:37     ` [9front] Bounties Ethan Gardener
2020-01-22 17:04     ` Ori Bernstein

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