Re: [9fans] infrequent panics

2008-03-12 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> This is a cool bug; thanks for the report. > I love a good concurrency bug. It might just be the result of being on a plane all day, but this just caught me in a weirdly funny mood. I can't tell whether I should respect you, admire you, fear you, or pity you for your unnatural affection for rac

Re: [9fans] infrequent panics

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> So if you ran ps at exactly the right time (while one of the > procs on the machine was opening a #-ed file name and > was between strlen and sprint), you'd win the race. > You might improve your chances if the machine were > close to out of memory and the smalloc had to wait for > more memory. >

Re: [9fans] replica weirdness

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Cox
> replica/compactdb: opendb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db: > '/n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db' does not exist > replica/compactdb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db: compactdb 192196: > opendb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db: > '/n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db' does not e

Re: [9fans] infrequent panics

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Cox
This is a cool bug; thanks for the report. I love a good concurrency bug. > Wed Mar 12 13:20:01: hdr 0a110c09 0020 f018c7ce cafebabe 20737023 > 7064755b > Wed Mar 12 13:20:01: tail 0a110c09 0020 f018c7ce cafebabe 20737023 > 7064755b | 72657320 20726576 This says "#ps [udp server]" (I'

Re: [9fans] replica weirdness

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 12 18:53:01 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps I've screwed something up along the way, but when I > run 'replica/pull -nv /dist/replica/network' I get the > following error: > > replica/compactdb: opendb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db: > '/n/boot/dist/replica/client/pl

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> hola, > > "http://9fans.net"; is an URL, "9fans.net" is not. > > as for google, I added a "Google string" command sometime > ago. what's the advantage of taking that position? is there something that breaks if "9fans.net" is interpreted as "http://9fans.net";? "Google string" is unsatisfacto

[9fans] replica weirdness

2008-03-12 Thread john
Perhaps I've screwed something up along the way, but when I run 'replica/pull -nv /dist/replica/network' I get the following error: replica/compactdb: opendb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db: '/n/boot/dist/replica/client/plan9.db' does not exist replica/compactdb /n/boot/dist/replica/client/p

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Federico G. Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/sh > if [ ! -f $HOME/.webcookies ]; then > touch $HOME/.webcookies > fi > if [ ! -e `namespace`/web ]; then > webfs -s web > fi > # export PLAN9=/usr/share/abacoabaco.bin $* ah, the "-s web" option was missing :) now another probl

[9fans] infrequent panics

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
on machines that serve dns, i get infrequently get panics like the one appeneded. there doesn't appear to be any pattern to the backtrace. but perhaps i am missing something. - erik src(0xf0108bbc); // dumpstack+0x10 src(0xf0145f4c); // panic+0xfc src(0xf0186e59); // ppanic+0xb4 src(0xf01

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hola, > abaco $home/x.html maybe, abaco file://$home/x.html feel free to add the file protocol to webfs. > On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > > > hola, > > > > "http://9fans.net"; is an URL, "9fans.net" is not. > > > > as for google, I added a "Google stri

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> Here's another thing I'd like to see: preview on-disk pages: > > abaco $home/x.html > that's not abaco -- that's webfs. webfs doesn't know what to do with "file://". - erik

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Here's another thing I'd like to see: preview on-disk pages: abaco $home/x.html On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: hola, "http://9fans.net"; is an URL, "9fans.net" is not. as for google, I added a "Google string" command sometime ago. -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Sickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd highly recommend going the pdftex route instead > http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/) Except the PDF library they're using is written in C++. I found that out when I was looking into porting luatex (which is pdft

Re: [9fans] kernel panic with fresh sources

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> Just for kicks, I have tried rebuilding another kernel with the fresh > sources and this modified sdiahci.c but it fails with the errors > attached in build.txt. the build warnings are harmless. it has to do with the fact that u32int is considerd a uint by the print format checking while ulong

[9fans] GSoC application posted

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Our GSoC application has been posted. To everybody who helped produce it: thanks! Now, if you have some time, please add to the project-ideas page on the wiki. We have a small but useful window between now and when we hear back about our application. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hola, "http://9fans.net"; is an URL, "9fans.net" is not. as for google, I added a "Google string" command sometime ago. -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > have you sent your patches to fgb? > > iru i think so. but it's been a very long time. here's the entire patch to urls.c some fixups may be required due to this fact. attached is the whole patch to urls.c. - erik // tired of typing http://, tired of going to google first. void justgoogl

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Iruata Souza
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is a bad idea, what if you want to use an alternate > > webfs (on a different NIC), or an non-standard cookies file? do you > > want to wait whilst webcookies rescans it databse at startup and > > webfs

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread Russ Cox
> I'd highly recommend going the pdftex route instead > http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/) > . Pdftex generates much more compatible PDF files that the dvips > route--aka, dvips output prints to paper fine, looks horrid on most > PDF viewers. Whether the files generated by dvips look

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread Hongzheng Wang
Although the quality of pdf files produced by dvips and ps2pdf (the tex engine in most tex distributions have been set to pdftex even when dvi format is selected) might not be the same as that outputed directly by pdftex, the problems of appearance is not the key. Some files look horrid on, say ac

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread Jeff Sickel
I'd highly recommend going the pdftex route instead http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/) . Pdftex generates much more compatible PDF files that the dvips route--aka, dvips output prints to paper fine, looks horrid on most PDF viewers. Now if I could only get more time in the day--as the

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> I think this is a bad idea, what if you want to use an alternate > webfs (on a different NIC), or an non-standard cookies file? do you > want to wait whilst webcookies rescans it databse at startup and > webfs rescans its cache (work in progress)? > > If we continue this way why not put the code

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread lucio
>> I can't get to produce the DVIs, the command line/interpreter >> interface is beyond me. After much sweat, it turned out to be as simple as I was expecting all along but only figured out after reading half the Texinfo manual: tex bfd.texinfo dvips | page -w The various *.texi

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread lucio
> The .texi file is not actually TeX. > > [ ... ] > > Sorry for not being helpful, You were, pity about the delay. It's nice to have one's suspicions confirmed. ++L

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Simon
> I think abaco should be made to host its own webcookies/webfs. Why > not? I think this is a bad idea, what if you want to use an alternate webfs (on a different NIC), or an non-standard cookies file? do you want to wait whilst webcookies rescans it databse at startup and webfs rescans its ca

Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Raschke
Lucio writes: >> minooka; tex hello.tex >> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > Works as documented. But the same with, say, core.texi, gives me an > error, presumably because the texinfo.tex macros are not preloaded. > So I need some advice on how to combine the two (or more) documents.