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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] make exportfs give "standard" error for file does exist
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:54:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F49CB0FE7D5ACA05A36D9E1908E43E@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b83d223-7b5a-93a5-7268-0ec4d79bb1d3@posixcafe.org>

Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org>:
> On 7/24/23 03:13, hiro wrote:
> >> 2. change 9front to add useful information as a suffix, rather than as a
> >> prefix:
> > 
> > ori: so simple. nice.
> > 
> > makes me wonder why they didn't do it this way in the first place.
> > anti-unix sabotage i hope!
> 
> I could be wrong but I think it's just reversing the arguments in
> /sys/src/9/port/chan.c:1250. There is probably more strings to fix,
> but this covers the specific 'path' <error> stuff
> 

yeah, I'm sure there will be other things to change, but
this is a good start; we can document that this is our
new convention, maybe put a list of "well known" prefixes
in a manpage, and start fixing the fmts that were newly
defined as bugs.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-24 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-23 21:07 Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:03 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-23 22:11   ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:24     ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24  0:19       ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 21:20         ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24 22:33           ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24  0:07 ` Michael Forney
2023-07-24  0:56   ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24  2:12   ` ori
2023-07-24  8:13     ` hiro
2023-07-24 23:37       ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 23:54         ` ori [this message]
2023-07-24  0:51 ` [9front] " Anthony Martin
2023-07-24  1:03   ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24  4:13     ` Anthony Martin
2023-07-24  4:20       ` ori
2023-07-25  6:09         ` Anthony Martin
2023-07-25  8:26           ` hiro
2023-07-25 13:14           ` ori

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