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=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, NICE_REPLY_A,URIBL_CSS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24114 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2022 19:47:56 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Aug 2022 19:47:56 -0000 Received: from mail.posixcafe.org ([45.76.19.58]) by 9front; Tue Aug 2 15:45:19 -0400 2022 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=posixcafe.org; s=20200506; t=1659469516; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=pNZrVEDZGQyEAoTA7CY6LxBX3vFTXV+tec5/vClu75U=; b=gm5AcrPZghBq/MEOYH4ikafJ2EtQSW/KE/oynpXCke2USp2kweRA4zoW+Sh2MGO5vB0sVF 5xWuCZwNaykQkCNnmbWZB5Ubm0JAsfqjJY9jGM9GK1CRbBAmit6NCxLxI6zB/csKGClWB6 S1o0EsPbSxfp4iOqnZytq3fGBZ5hERs= Received: from [192.168.168.200] (161-97-228-135.lpcnextlight.net [161.97.228.135]) by mail.posixcafe.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 59ec6622 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:45:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <5ea0c3f8-ddb3-a549-d027-f342fffd7dea@posixcafe.org> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:44:37 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Content-Language: en-US To: 9front@9front.org References: <07D3A033EE74CC37C392B5B9094ED791@eigenstate.org> From: Jacob Moody In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: advanced lossless DOM realtime core controller Subject: Re: [9front] question about httpd Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk On 8/2/22 13:34, sirjofri wrote: > Maye you should ask the question about Q either the Q continuum, on the > 9fans mailing list or the tuhs list and some of the old unix beards can > answer? It would be really interesting to know or at least hear their > thoughts. My theories: > > Q is a weird letter that's not often used in the alphabet, unlike a,b,c, > and a big Q, so it's not a context specific prefix. Compare to, well, B > for bio-stuff. > > Q as in, queue. Maybe at some point they had some kinda queue > implementation for dynamic filesystems, and the Qid was some kinda > identifier in that list? > > Q as in, star trek. I mean, who knows what they thought, maybe it was > just some fun idea. > > sirjofri I did some digging, according to Rob it's for unique. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2948a78ca9a0fb64-M4ef3befa1966557106cf1f93/9fans-why-u-h-why-qid