Philip Silva via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> once said:
> if ((cpid = fork()) != 0) {
> close(infd[1]);
> close(outfd[1]);
>
> n = write(infd[0], "test", 4);
> printf("check process: wrote %d bytes\n", n);
>
> sendn
thanks Dave... will look into the overlay file system + kernel hack soun..
got the 9front booting off one 9660 drive now (50GB) and am
mounting my second 20GB drive into /tmp/D (its a 9fat partition)
and i have rebooted and the created D files are still there
one strange thing that bogged me down
9660srv's job is to serve the files stored on a CD-ROM. CD-ROMs
are more or less read-only, so 9660srv serves the files as read-only
as well.
In most setups, the /tmp file system is "stored" in RAM. It's faster
than sending the data to some storage device, and when you turn the
machine off the f
Hello,
I'm trying to understand how pipes work when terminating a forked process. It
seems when sending kill to the forked process, connected pipes don't always
break. At least a subsequent write might work. Is it possible to make it
reliably fail anyway or is it necessary to close the file des
hello there 9fans_ears...
i create a file system pretty much simply on my vm by
% *cat* 9frontXYZ.iso > /dev/sdC0/data
and that works pretty well and boots a p9 vm from C
but... I cannot create a dir (only in /tmp), so...I have tried:
% *mkdir* /tmp/C
% *9660srv*
% *mount* -c /srv/9660 /tmp/C /dev/
