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* [9front] [PATCH] riowctl and $wctl are no more, update man pages
@ 2023-05-17 19:44 unobe
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From: unobe @ 2023-05-17 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Back in September, we removed riowctl (`{git/export
87160cbfcf926fd0a9f04e8113a16c2a0c7e252d} ) and $wctl.  I had used
riowctl for one of my scripts and so was puzzled by its absence.
Here's a patch to update the documentation.

diff deb39a43ae5ed09c7971726cedeb06a9f65ccc6d uncommitted
--- a/sys/man/1/rio
+++ b/sys/man/1/rio
@@ -488,7 +488,6 @@
 it interprets all mouse events, gets all keyboard characters,
 and determines what appears on the screen.
 .SH FILES
-.TF /srv/riowctl.\fIuser\fP.\fIpid\fP
 .TP
 .B /lib/font/bit/*
 font directories
@@ -505,11 +504,6 @@
 .B /srv/rio.\fIuser\fP.\fIpid\fP
 Server end of
 .IR rio .
-.TP
-.B /srv/riowctl.\fIuser\fP.\fIpid\fP
-Named pipe for
-.I wctl
-messages.
 .SH SOURCE
 .TF /sys/src/cmd/rio
 .TP
--- a/sys/man/4/rio
+++ b/sys/man/4/rio
@@ -39,16 +39,6 @@
 is set to this service name within processes running under the control
 of each invocation of
 .IR rio .
-Similarly,
-.I rio
-posts a named pipe to access the window creation features
-(see
-.B window
-in
-.IR rio (1))
-from outside
-its name space; this is named in
-.BR $wctl .
 .PP
 A
 .I mount
@@ -354,8 +344,8 @@
 may create windows,
 .B wctl
 .B new
-messages may also be written to the named pipe identified by
-.BR $wctl .
+messages may also be written as attach arguments when mounting
+.B /srv/rio.\fIuser\fP.\fIpid\fP .
 .TP
 .B wdir
 is a read/write text file containing


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