Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL

2015-01-01 Thread Teodoro Santoni
. The way to go is writing a x server like you would write a TeX environment or a compiler toolchain, which will lead you rolling out a systemd better designed that doesn't make its way to pid 1. It's a lot of work. Are you sure you wouldn't like to try p9? Happy gregorian first of the year, -- Teodoro Santoni

Re: [9fans] GitHub thinks plan9port hasn't been changed in 7 months!

2015-06-22 Thread Teodoro Santoni
7;s why people asked whether the project was on hiatus/dead. -- Teodoro Santoni

Re: [9fans] Trying to override 'cd' command

2015-06-27 Thread Teodoro Santoni
gt; > > >Does this help you? Good evening, no. You have to source the file $home/lib/profile by hand or invoke rc from a link called -rc, as rc -l or whatever. -- Teodoro Santoni Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.

Re: [9fans] On Linux, what is the rc init file?

2015-08-28 Thread Teodoro Santoni
home/lib/profile... -- Teodoro Santoni Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.

Re: [9fans] On Linux, what is the rc init file?

2015-08-28 Thread Teodoro Santoni
ds. But I never investigated a lot. Thank you -- Teodoro Santoni Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.

Re: [9fans] On Linux, what is the rc init file?

2015-08-30 Thread Teodoro Santoni
ipting language for things that aren't my terminal env. I just didn't like to wrap rc -l, use win rc -l or launch rc and . $home/lib/profile (or whatever I would use as alias). So probably I'll use rcmain in a fashion that would resemble, in part or wholly, .bashrc. -- Teodoro S

Re: [9fans] On Linux, what is the rc init file?

2015-08-30 Thread Teodoro Santoni
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:07:06PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > rcmain is shared. the profile is per-user As long as $PLAN9 is shared. But my conf is to be used in a machine which is single-user, atm. -- Teodoro Santoni Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.

Re: [9fans] Why Plan 9 uses $ifs instead of $IFS?

2017-10-17 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Hi, 2017-10-17 16:38 GMT+02:00, Giacomo Tesio : > Out of curiosity, do anybody know why Plan9 designers chose lowercase > variables over uppercase ones? > > At first, given the different conventions between rc and sh (eg $path is an > array, while $PATH is a string), I supposed Plan 9 designers wa

Re: [9fans] simple rc problem in p9p (on OpenBSD)

2018-04-26 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Hi, 2018-04-26 16:45 GMT+02:00, Rudolf Sykora : > Hello > > I, using OpenBSD's p9p, see this > > % w='A > B > C' > % echo $w > A > B > C > % for(i in $w) {echo $i; echo XXX} > A > B > C > XXX > > ie, w in for is taken as just one argument instead of > 3. What can I do with it? > > I haven'

[9fans] Re: i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Surely there was a market to fit into... On domenica 29 settembre 2013 22:34:34 CEST, Charles Forsyth wrote: On 29 September 2013 17:55, andrey mirtchovski wrote: http://www.di.unipi.it/~nids/docs/the_plan-9_effect.html I note that despite that analysis he worked on Bing.

[9fans] Re: i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Oh geez, I'm some guy passing by but I hope that this motivational speech about making things for the cashflow reaches the whole Microsoft, 'cause the Microsophiles totally missed the point with their work, it seems. I can ignore his thoughts about Bell Labs being some kind of R&D department st

[9fans] Re: i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Teodoro Santoni
However stating that "just works" equals "don't rework it" is very Microsofty, tho' On domenica 29 settembre 2013 18:55:20 CEST, andrey mirtchovski wrote: after all these years: http://www.di.unipi.it/~nids/docs/the_plan-9_effect.html