Re: [9fans] /n

2008-06-24 Thread Bruce Ellis
where is dan? he's a fine man. brucee On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> why do files in /n exist on the distributed image? >> when would they be necessary? > > mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late. > there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /

Re: [9fans] /n

2008-06-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late. > there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n. > looking through the archives, it looks like nemo > came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002. > > before i poked through the archives, i would have > credited dan cross with the idea. is d

Re: [9fans] /n

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Cox
> why do files in /n exist on the distributed image? > when would they be necessary? mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late. there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n. looking through the archives, it looks like nemo came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002. before i poked th

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-24 Thread a
I wasn't able to get this working today, but I believe I made good progress. Unfortunately, I'm traveling all day tomorrow and will have questionable network access while away for about a week. I've attached my version of _p9dir.c with the OS X code in it. The addition is pretty simple, and I test

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2008-06-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
can you cat /dev/mouse and see if button 4/5 events are generated by the mouse? it may be that they give you something else than the usual down/up event that everybody is used to (large value deltas, for example). they may also be generating button 6 and up events instead, in which case you'll have

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2008-06-24 Thread Dave Eckhardt
I bought one of these ("Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 Rev 2", aka VM3R2). It doesn't work with my KVM (IOGear GCS1734, neither top of the line nor junk), not with Linux or Plan 9: horizontal tracking is fine, but vertical tracking goes only up. It works ok plugged directly into a Linux box. After so

[9fans] /n

2008-06-24 Thread erik quanstrom
why do files in /n exist on the distributed image? when would they be necessary? - erik

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread matt
Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless. I thought we had to replace Inferno with Acme-Sac, I wish you'd make up your mind.

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Cox
> Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The > duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless. Just wait a few days. Russ

Re: [9fans] usenix

2008-06-24 Thread Williams, Mitch
Here now. -mlw From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:40 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] usenix Anyone going to USENIX this week? Russ

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread erik quanstrom
>>> Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The >>> duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless. >> >> I don't believe Inferno can interface with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, can it? > > If OS X can, inferno is going to have a much easier time of it. this isn't a useful co

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Bruce Ellis
wrong, wrong. see what i mean, uriel? my puppy does better. he doesn't say to me "it thought it was ok to chew on the router". he seldom believes anything without investigating. maybe an i'm-pietro-and-i-comment-on-everything list? brucee On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EM

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread a
// I don't believe Inferno can interface with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, can it? It can. Stock Inferno has a few ways of doing this, although (last I tried) there were authentication issues. Rog worked on those, but I'm not sure to what extent they've been integrated. // And Inferno can't interface w

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Not true. Octopus is indeed Inferno, plus several programs. Thus, I´m using Inferno as a front-end to a Plan 9 system, and I have to say that it includes a shared clipboard as well. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't believe Inferno can inter

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Uriel wrote: >> Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The >> duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless. > > I don't believe Inferno can interface with Plan 9

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Bruce Ellis
or at the very least we need a OSX-9fans list that we don't have to read. or a why-doesn't-fuse-work-on-ubuntu-this week list. brucee On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 06-Apr-08

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Uriel wrote: Drawterm everywhere needs to die and be replaced with inferno. The duplication of bug fixes and efforts is pointless. I don't believe Inferno can interface with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, can it? And Inferno can't interface with the native cut/copy/paste

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-24 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS X. And yes, 9's ls reports size zero (as opposed to OSX's ls "size" of "14, 12"). I'll spend a little time on These "sizes" are the major and minor device numbers. it this morning and see what i get. OS X's stat(1) can get the info,

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06-Apr-08, at 8:46 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> >>> it's a known bug, but i don't think there's a fix for it. >> >> what's the bug? > > drawterm on OS X needs to be rewritten in Cocoa. Drawterm everywhere needs to d

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> OS X. And yes, 9's ls reports size zero (as opposed to > OSX's ls "size" of "14, 12"). I'll spend a little time on those are the major and minor numbers, not the size. this is traditional unix behavior. - erik

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-24 Thread a
OS X. And yes, 9's ls reports size zero (as opposed to OSX's ls "size" of "14, 12"). I'll spend a little time on it this morning and see what i get. OS X's stat(1) can get the info, so the hardest part might just be figuring out which "project" Apple put the source for stat in. Anthony

Re: [9fans] p9p venti w/ raw partitions

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Cox
> Is anyone running venti with raw disk partitions on Unix? I've got a > nice large disk to dedicate to it, and would like to do it without > needlessly imposing another fs, if possible, but am running into > problems. The blocker now is fmtarenas is complaining that it > "can't determine size of p

Re: [9fans] 'stuck' windows.

2008-06-24 Thread Sander van Dijk
On 6/22/08, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob wrote the script below, called "namespace", years ago. > It is essentially a script version of newns. > You could do > > 9fs boot > namespace /n/boot dossrv > > if you really wanted to, but that seems like overkill to me. It sure wo

Re: [9fans] OSX Drawterm hangs on close

2008-06-24 Thread underspecified
Greetings, I came across this message while catching up on mailing lists. This is a problem we were having that I recently fixed in Acme SAC for OS-X. Basically, the problem was that there was no handler catching kEventAppQuit. I am attaching a patch that creates a basic event handler and calls e