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Inotify is only present if your Linux-kernel is compiled with it turned on. If you want to use it in shell scripts there's inotify-tools (that's the Debian name anyway). Sadly GNU got their grubby fingers in and invented the stupid D-BUS.
In FreeBSD there's kqueue which does a similar job.
Once you learn rc shell you might find other shells to be bloated, verbose and whitespace fussy. The only complaint I've ever heard was job control, well that's because job contgrol is the kernel's job and it seems that when implementing /proc someone forgot the ctl file.
On Plan9 one does
echo stop|start > /proc/$pidn/ctl
try setting your font= variable in $home/lib/profile
You can also mail the dev mailing list and see if anyone can help you.
http://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev
Do you not get output like the screenshots ?
Plus I don't like TAB completion. If you can't remember where everything is maybe you should organise it better instead of drawing more maps.
For Unix clones everywhere there's the tried and tested Plan9 Plumber that uses Regular Expression Matching to perform any action you desire
http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html
For the example rules see the base set
That's an amazing claim. Or you don't know what an Operating System is.
Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Feb. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Nov. 2009
Total U.S. Age 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
Nov-09 Feb-10 Point Change
RIM 40.8% 42.1% 1.3
Apple 25.5% 25.4% -0.1
Microsoft 19.1% 15.1% -4.0
Google 3.8% 9.0% 5.2
Palm 7.2% 5.4% -1.8The only thing I've seen make political change is some form of direct action. Waving banners does absolutely FUCK ALL unless it's for something for which they can throw you a bone.
This is what they think of you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
Did you notice the part where it was fixed with 5 lines in 5 minutes instead of waiting a few months for the vendor ?
daph:/etc/service# svstat *
apache: up (pid 20546) 7315393 seconds
dndr: up (pid 32629) 3757174 seconds
getmail: up (pid 31632) 4487516 seconds
momo: up (pid 22310) 16934 seconds
mush: up (pid 10708) 222304 seconds
p9: down 7991823 seconds, normally up
u9fs: up (pid 13547) 1968001 seconds
win2k: up (pid 3291) 8180332 seconds"join the Pirate Party "
> The right to share files provided no money changes hands.
Great, thanks for destroying my livelihood. Where's the funding for the British Film Industry supposed to come from then?
see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Computer-Architecture-Proce...
It seems to me that the techniques that were in silicon then are being brought into kernels today. Crays ran a modified BSD4.3. All we need now is someone to say Hypercube.
Today's HPC is pretty messy. Driven by MPI and Fortran they have even pushed the Linux kernel out of contention by using OS-Bypass because the kernel is too slow getting bytes on the wire. In Plan9 we are experimenting with Syscall currying to reduce latency
http://iwp9.quanstro.net/papers/usecsys.pdf
I've drifted a bit because I wanted to use this quote :
"You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many people, and it can work for you." - Ron Minnich
oh if you liked that pdf here's another one about Plan9 on the Blue Gene
I unknowingly buy tainted MP3s from a retailer. Under the doctrine of first sale I can re-sell these MP3s. So now I legally sell a full mp3 player or maybe lose it and someone hands it into the police but I never claim it. The new owner now has a means to do me harm.
When I'm using a language, alarm bells ring when I find myself needing to type something like :
std::vector<char> v(std::istream_iterator<char>(ifs), std::istream_iterator<char>());