native there means in the host os of
the pc and the namespace you had there. 


On May 22, 2012, at 2:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>> I issued the ';page' command from 9front terminal, where ';' indicates
>> the native OS's command.   What is 'native' here?
> 
> This may also be from the different version of inferno, too.
> The $OCTOPUS/usr/octopus/port/lib/os.b file shows the
> line of
> system(xctx, cmd);
> and the cmd= "os -d <dir> rc -c <cmd>" here.
> 
> According to my inferno man page, "os" command of the
> inferno sh has -m mountpoint option, which we dont't use.
> If that option is not used, the defdault is at /cmd directory
> which would be linked to _local_ bin...
> 
> Too much complicated to me for now.
> 
> Kenji
> 

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