[662] in athena10
Re: attach -e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Dec 2 16:47:45 2008
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20081202213317.GI10836@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:47:00 -0500
> Yuck. So now `detach gnu` would actually remove /mit/gnu from my
> namespace? Then we'd be back to the bad old days of having to attach
> everything before relying on it being around, rather than using /mit/
> as a namespace that always works. That's more complicated to explain
> to users and a source of bugs in scripts.
Changing a behavior that has existed for years is just as
complicated. And this won't affect scripts or anything. If you want
to use, say, "hes", in a script, then you explicitly refer to /mit/
consult/bin/hes, and it works.
"add" is still a separate operation, regardless of how the locker is
made available under /mit.
We could either make detach a no-op, so that the user can then run
"add -r" without a separate step. Or "add -r" could not require the
locker to be attached. Or we could write "unadd" or something.
-Jon
