On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:27:26AM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Ren?? J.V. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > view towards the way things are in Linux-land. > > > > Correction: Unix. X11 was around (long) before Linux, and no matter how > > you turn it, OS X *is* a Unix OS. > > So unix/hostname:display was somehow not Unix? You're just digging the hole > deeper. Stop, think, consider --- or go back to Linux, since your purity is > being corrupted by defective other operating systems that refuse to do > things the approved-by-Linux-therefore-definitive-by-definition way.
I just started reading this thread, but I can't just sit by after this pair of posts and some of the ones leading to it, without setting the record straight.... DISPLAY = hostname:0 (etc) is NOT a Linux thing, it's not a MacOS X thing, it's not a FreeBSD thing, nor is a SunOS or Solaris or Ultrix, Aix, AT&T SYS V (back when it WAS AT&T, running on 3B2 systems), or any Unix variant or UNIX(tm) thing. NONE of these can claim "ownership" to hostname:0. You have to look back a bit farther back than Linux, and you have to look in the right direction. I can go back as for as MIT X11R4, ca 1988 or 1989. It's part of X, not part of the OS. It's how X does things. It's how X works. It's been how X works since, like I said, at least as far back as MIT X11R4. How the system represents it internally is meaningless to the user, so why the big debate over that? And, case-sensitive vs case-insensitive? That debate doesn't apply on Unix systems---it's always case-sensitive. If I create two directories, foo and Foo, they are different directories, and I know, from decades of working with various Unix systems, that I am perfectly safe if I do a rm -rf on one, as it will NOT touch the other. The same goes for files. Just as I know that, if I send this whole debate to /dev/NULL on my Mac, it will result in "permission denied" as I'm not root (like any experienced Unix user, I know better than to use root when root privs are not required...WAY too dangerous---one typo, and we all know what can happen). Bored now.....going back to working on porting GTbrew2 to Android now.... Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running Mac OS X Lion > [email protected] ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W Saw something on TV about Psych-os. Hmmmm, Psych OS. Perhaps the next freeware OS.... --me _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
