Thomas AdamMay 26
Justine Smithies
I see #cow the #fvwm replacement is coming along nicely. It uses river as the #wayland compositor.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow
cow

Compositor on Wayland -- a stacking window manager using river as the compositor. CoW aims to behave like fvwm and mwm from X11.

Codeberg.org
May 25 at 6:15pmWeb
Show threadTomAokiMay 25
@justine
First I thought COW as "Copy On Write" like done in ZFS and confused.😅
Show threadJustine SmithiesMay 25
Oops sorry. 🤣
Show threadThomas AdamMay 26
@TomAoki @justine Heh. Unfortunately, it’s not as exciting as copy on write. 🙂
Show threadTomAokiMay 26

@thomasadam @justine
BTW, IIUC, the term "Copy on Writes" was treated a bit differently on OS-9.
On ZFS, COW basically mean
On updates, copy the original, modify the copy, link to modified copy then unlink original old entry.

On OS-9 that (IIRC) didn't have COW for filesystems,
On using data part of (in-memory) processes, first fully share within all processes started up from the same "module", and copy the part once any of the processes attempt to write to it.

This made eliminating copy if no "initialized" data are written (100% shared) just like the code parts.

Anyway, in "non-computer" real world, cows should be animals.😁