From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 8 8:47:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E57314DDB for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@acl.lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA220807 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:47:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:47:19 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :) In-Reply-To: <003d01bec8f9$feeadf90$8fa02ac3@ramendik> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message