Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-23 Thread Allan Heim
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,

Re: [9fans] Does 9P provide multicast for files?

2011-03-23 Thread Robin Bate Boerop
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

Re: [9fans] Does 9P provide multicast for files?

2011-03-23 Thread erik quanstrom
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

Re: [9fans] Does 9P provide multicast for files?

2011-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> 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] Does 9P provide multicast for files?

2011-03-23 Thread Robin Bate Boerop
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?

Re: [9fans] namespaces, Alef

2011-03-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> 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

Re: [9fans] namespaces, Alef

2011-03-23 Thread Jack Norton
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

[9fans] namespaces, Alef

2011-03-23 Thread faif
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