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Subject: Re: [9front] plumber: remove $plumbsrv, add optional srvname, usage check
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Quoth qwx@sciops.net:
> Plumber both posts a service to /srv and sets a $plumbsrv environment
> variable.  Our libplumb no longer uses $plumbsrv and nothing else
> does.  It's a silly hack;  rc doesn't update /env immediately, and
> scripts, which for instance set up subrios, cannot rely on it to
> clean up the plumber at the end.
> 
> Instead, add the option to specify a srvname, actually check for some
> common errors and print a usage string.
> 
> Thanks to Ori for input and a preliminary patch.  Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> qwx
> 

Since this removes '$srvname': is anyone using it at the moment?


otherwise, this looks good to me.