On 26 May 2011 07:39, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > As for sbase I'm still sceptical this is a good idea as it > re-implements perfectly sound 9base tools, but avoids the real tricky > ones such as rc, mk or awk.
I, basically, disagree. The Plan 9 tools were written for another operating system: ls has no -a flag, but you can use -q to list the 9P QIDs? Fantastic. You can't distinguish between a failed match and an error in grep, because Plan 9's exit returns a string? Even better. No other utils that I have found are designed just to be simple and hackable, with only a few useful flags, and not all the cruft. There's 9base, but all the benefits Plan 9 brings are totally screwed by the marshalling back into Unix. Using P9P is a compromise, not an alternative userspace. -rwxr-xr-x 1 cls cls 604908 May 26 11:47 9base/cat/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 cls cls 21268 May 26 11:47 sbase/cat My intention is to build a userspace for Unix which is very simple (see my earlier post), and actually *designed* for Unix, not just a compatibility shim. I tend to prefer Unix tools which are actually, you know, Unix tools. Regarding awk, we should probably use bwk. I haven't decided what to do about make or the shell, yet. Thanks, cls
