troff got me my first job in the industry, working at SCO in the '80s
as a typesetter. I swore by my copy of Word Processing on the UNIX
System by Morris Krieger, and I'm shocked to not see it listed at
http://www.troff.org/books.html but a Google search shows that used
copies are still available,
On 23 March 2011 17:55, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Wed Mar 23 16:43:55 EDT 2011, pau...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Both readers and writers are clients of a 9p file server. It decides
>> who to answer. It is not specified by the protocol.
>
> excellent answer.
>
> i'd like to add, though, since tags ar
On Wed Mar 23 16:43:55 EDT 2011, pau...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > With 9P, what happens when 2 readers have the same file open, both
> are > blocked on a read() call, and then a writer writes to the file;
> which > of the readers sees the data? Both?
>
> Both readers and writers are clients of a 9p
> With 9P, what happens when 2 readers have the same file open, both are
> blocked on a read() call, and then a writer writes to the file; which
> of the readers sees the data? Both?
Both readers and writers are clients of a 9p file server. It decides who to
answer. It is not specified by the pr
9fans,
I am new to Plan9 and 9P, and have not found the answer to my question
in documentation:
With 9P, what happens when 2 readers have the same file open, both are
blocked on a read() call, and then a writer writes to the file; which
of the readers sees the data? Both?
> a) It seems that the potential of namespaces can be exposed only when
> using a distributed environment with multiple machines (CPU servers,
> file servers, terminals, etc.). Can I get a feeling about what a
> namespace is in practice if I only own a single system installed on a
> virtual machine
faif wrote:
Some questions that came up while reading the first paper (Plan 9 from
Bell Labs):
a) It seems that the potential of namespaces can be exposed only when
using a distributed environment with multiple machines (CPU servers,
file servers, terminals, etc.). Can I get a feeling about what
Some questions that came up while reading the first paper (Plan 9 from
Bell Labs):
a) It seems that the potential of namespaces can be exposed only when
using a distributed environment with multiple machines (CPU servers,
file servers, terminals, etc.). Can I get a feeling about what a
namespace i