Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?

2008-12-30 Thread Noah Evans
http://code.google.com/hosting/createProject On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Uriel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, C H Forsyth wrote: >>>Knowing *who* made the change is often even more useful than the change >>>comment. >> >> yes. i use ls -lm on our trees, but that might not work

Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?

2008-12-30 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, C H Forsyth wrote: >>Knowing *who* made the change is often even more useful than the change >>comment. > > yes. i use ls -lm on our trees, but that might not work on less direct things > like sources. It would work if the development trees were public... uriel

Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?

2008-12-30 Thread erik quanstrom
> If one buys this argument, then namespaces are not valid security constructs they are not security constructs at all. though ftpd and a few friends use rfork(2) to create a pgrp that doesn't allow attaches. very simple and effictive, but probablly not strong security. > either, and Plan 9 sec

Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?

2008-12-30 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: > > If #s can be virtualized -- ala srv^2 or devcapsrv or something else -- then > the system is one step closer to supporting the above. There is some > machinery for sealing off #p that I do not recall in full detail but may > well be

Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?

2008-12-30 Thread C H Forsyth
>Knowing *who* made the change is often even more useful than the change >comment. yes. i use ls -lm on our trees, but that might not work on less direct things like sources.

Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?

2008-12-30 Thread Uriel
Knowing *who* made the change is often even more useful than the change comment. uriel On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: >>> i've rarely found per-change histories to be any more useful than >>> most other comments, i'm afraid. > >>And that meant that math texts and math te

Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?

2008-12-30 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:21:49PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > True. But why that should be a problem in practice? If the process > belongs to a user X that means user X has control over it. Thus the > behavior of accidental consumption of an fd that was meant to be consumed > by some other pr