From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 28 15:35:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA12177 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:35:40 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA12171 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:35:38 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00837; Fri, 28 Jul 95 15:42:23 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507282142.AA00837@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Lessons learned from Plan9 To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 15:42:22 MDT Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507281424.IAA22384@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jul 28, 95 08:24:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have to agree with Peter and Robert here. It seems > to me to be awfully cool to do > > # echo format > /dev/sd0/crtl > > to format a disk (and the disk can even be remote)! Why when it opens the device does it not get the lookup values and result in opening the device on your machine instead of the remote machine? How do you determine valid settings for which an echo is apropriate? How do you prevent a MIME message from sending the device message? It seems you would want to request interactive confimation for something like a format... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.