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. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4a173cfd35edc215-M506d7c5f9eeab09def00703f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
