From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12866 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2023 23:58:42 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Jul 2023 23:58:42 -0000 Received: from mimir.eigenstate.org ([206.124.132.107]) by 9front; Mon Jul 24 19:55:02 -0400 2023 Received: from stockyard.home (cpe-67-243-240-107.nyc.res.rr.com [67.243.240.107]) by mimir.eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 8d11cf28 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52F49CB0FE7D5ACA05A36D9E1908E43E@eigenstate.org> To: 9front@9front.org Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:54:56 -0400 From: ori@eigenstate.org In-Reply-To: <1b83d223-7b5a-93a5-7268-0ec4d79bb1d3@posixcafe.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: leveraged NoSQL rich-client-oriented extension-based markup manager Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] make exportfs give "standard" error for file does exist Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Jacob Moody : > 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' 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.