Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> said:
> > What? The findroot code reads:
>
> read the code again; findroot doesn't come into play.
it most certainly does!
in main...
if(!bootboot){
if(localroot == nil && (localroot = findroot()) == nil)
panic("cannot find plan 9 root; use -r");
So, if you do not specify localroot (via -r) then it uses findroot. Findroot
first checks the cwd, and then two hardcoded paths. This means that unless
the program is run from the 9vx's associated Plan 9 root, or the programs were
installed in "/Users/rsc/9vx" or "/home/rsc/plan9/4e", then you are requiring
all users on a system to run 9vx with -r and know where that root is always.
Is it unreasonable to expect that an invocation of "9vx" to actually run?
EBo --
