Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:16 PM, ron minnich wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense.

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 18:48 +, Brian L. Stuart wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note thief process that would constantly read on a target's

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note thief process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-04 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread erik quanstrom
I've been experimenting with how Plan 9 handles notes for processes and I must confess that I'm now confused and in need your help. First of all, the proc(3) man page says that A read [from /proc/n/ note] of at least ERRLEN characters will retrieve the oldest note posted to the process and

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:03 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: what is the point of reading /proc/n/ note for anything but a stopped/borken process? or a process already in a note handler? Could you elaborate, please? Do you mean that if the process enters its note handler, then the sure fire

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Brian L. Stuart
Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note thief process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes externally using a different kind of

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread dave . l
Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note thief process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes externally using a different kind of IPC

Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-03 Thread Brian L. Stuart
Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing that I wanted to implement was a note thief process that would constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes externally using a

[9fans] Questions on notes

2008-11-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Guys, I've been experimenting with how Plan 9 handles notes for processes and I must confess that I'm now confused and in need your help. First of all, the proc(3) man page says that A read [from /proc/n/ note] of at least ERRLEN characters will retrieve the oldest note posted to the process