On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has only > a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that would be > shared between programs... All this while Windows has a very interesting > clipboard system that allows to paste as different types.
This is why Private Name Spaces are a good thing. They act like a file system (because they are a file system), they can be backed by a file system or whatever you wish (i've got both memory servers and file system servers) and they allow processes to create shared, private data to support such things as a clipboard. You don't need to write a special daemon, you just need to get private name spaces working on freebsd. I have a first piece in the v9fs file system, which is a memory file system but which is intended to support private name spaces in the future. Note that private name spaces work just fine over a network. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
