Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:16 PM, ron minnich wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense.

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading >>> on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing >>> that I wanted to implem

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and han

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 18:48 +, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > > > > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > > > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > > > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > > > > constantly read

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> > > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes > > > externally

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes > > externally using a di

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread dave . l
Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes externally using a different kind of IPC

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes > externally using a different ki

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:03 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > what is the point of reading /proc/n/ note for anything but a > > stopped/borken process? > > or a process already in a note handler? Could you elaborate, please? Do you mean that if the process enters its note handler, then the sure fi

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've been experimenting with how Plan 9 handles notes for processes and > I must confess that I'm now confused and in need your help. > > First of all, the proc(3) man page says that "A read [from /proc/n/ > note] of at least ERRLEN > characters will retrieve the oldest note posted to the proce

[9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Guys, I've been experimenting with how Plan 9 handles notes for processes and I must confess that I'm now confused and in need your help. First of all, the proc(3) man page says that "A read [from /proc/n/ note] of at least ERRLEN characters will retrieve the oldest note posted to the process a