skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote:
: This topic was brought up a few years ago and some helpful suggestions
: were made:
You may note that I'm the one that brought it up that time, too
``Helpful'' is kind of relative. They're great once you have a
functional enough system to be able to look t
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:03:11 -0600, Jacob Moody wrote:
moody> This is not quite the case though, /dev/drivers gives you a mapping of
the
moody> single character names to their "full" names. This name then corresponds
to
moody> their entry within section 3 of the manual pages. Where you'll find
This topic was brought up a few years ago and some helpful suggestions
were made:
https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc21478a4dc8e2df1-M53e7a145d7e726e30dd4bbed
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM Dworkin Muller wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:09:31 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> rminnich> Base
> Thank you, Ron, for calling out the uniqueness of factotum.
I met factotum, and read that paper, after a couple years of
slogging through multi-layered authentication implemented as
dynamic libraries in C, including the fun of trying to point
a debugger at static functions inside dynamically-loa
On 2/21/25 14:45, Dworkin Muller wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:21:45 +, Stuart Morrow
> wrote:
> morrow.stuart> How is it different from flags?
>
> Well, typically flags are specific to some command, and are documented
> somewhere. Also, these get used as the first element in a path, and
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:21:45 +, Stuart Morrow
wrote:
morrow.stuart> How is it different from flags?
Well, typically flags are specific to some command, and are documented
somewhere. Also, these get used as the first element in a path, and
are (or seem to be) used mostly in contexts where yo
enumeration? like the one on /dev/drivers?
-rodri
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 01:17 Dworkin Muller wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:09:31 -0800, ron minnich
> wrote:
> rminnich> Based on the response to my note re: things that act like
> strace, I'm going
> rminnich> to start accumulating a "plan 9
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 00:17, Dworkin Muller wrote:
> Plan 9's mostly single-character names, with no
> apparent connection to what they correspond to,
> have completely flummoxed me more times
How is it different from flags?
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There’s also
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Unix_to_Plan_9_command_translation/index.html FWIW; it
doesn’t seem to be editable AFAICT. Maybe it’s worthwhile to merge anything
interesting from there into the garden wiki.
> On Feb 20, 2025, at 19:33, Ori Bernstein wrote:
>
> perhaps:
>
>htt
