Quoth Alyssa M via 9fans <[email protected]>:
> I'm porting my window system to plan 9. One of the ways its different from 
> rio is that the programs that run in the separate windows share a namespace 
> by default. That's not required, but rforking the namespace is not required 
> by the window system either. It also doesn't have a /dev/cons as such, but 
> some text-oriented programs on Plan 9 (e.g. p(1)) will depend on finding that 
> in the namespace. So I want that to be possible for interoperability.

I think it actually is necessary, or they will all end up reading from the same
/dev/cons.

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