[9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
I am running the admittedly somewhat odd vac command > phlogiston% vac \ > -d ... -q \ > -f ... \ > -h ... \ > -e acme/acid/386 -e acme/acid/alpha -e acme/acid/arm \ > -e acme/acid/mips -e acme/acid/power -e acme/bin/386 \ > -e acme/bin/alpha -e acme/bin/arm -e acme/bin/m

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:58 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: also, can you please remove debugging output from 9fans? What do you mean? Could you paste the raw text data for one of my emails? PGP for Mac Mail hides everything.

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Russ Cox
Sed is fixed in plan9port. $ hg diff sed.c diff -r 478b53880a80 src/cmd/sed.c --- a/src/cmd/sed.c Wed Feb 04 20:12:48 2009 -0800 +++ b/src/cmd/sed.c Wed Feb 04 20:13:08 2009 -0800 @@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ return 0; subexp[0].s.rsp = buf; subexp[0].e.rep = 0; -

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread andrey mirtchovski
also, can you please remove debugging output from 9fans?

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Dear Pietro, Could you please remove the PGP Signatures from your messages? don't do unto us, illegibly ak

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The bug doesn't seem to be in sed. The match() function calls rregexec(), which sets a strucuture that is set to loc2, which is made null for some reason. On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lp = loc2; loc2 = sp - genbuf + linebuf; while(*sp++ = *lp++) At the point of crash, loc2 is a null pointer when it is assigned to lp, so when the while() statement executes, crash. Now to find out why and when loc2 become

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Uriel wrote: For those that enjoy fixing bugs: % echo foo | sed 's/..a|..b|..c|..d|..e|..f|..g|..h|..i|..j|..k|..l|..m|..n|..o|..p//g' Will crash both native and p9p sed. Yes, I know it is a nonsensical expression, but

[9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Uriel
For those that enjoy fixing bugs: % echo foo | sed 's/..a|..b|..c|..d|..e|..f|..g|..h|..i|..j|..k|..l|..m|..n|..o|..p//g' Will crash both native and p9p sed. Yes, I know it is a nonsensical expression, but it is the simplest one that still made it crash, I have lost the original version which wa

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:30 +, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > > information can't leak in principle, but root scores are dangerous, which > > is why open-access venti servers are problematic - if such a score > > *does* happen to leak, then unconditional access to all your data has > > also leaked. >

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:27 +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > But I do not recall the details and I think Roman is the one who > needs to recap this discussion and bring it to a conclusion. Wow! This ended up being quite a thread ;-) I'll try to comment on a couple of things first, in this sin

Re: [9fans] Intel 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet (Fiber)

2009-02-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Feb 4 11:34:03 EST 2009, 9p...@imu.li wrote: > I've several Intel PRO/1000 XF cards that I would like to use. I remember > these cards working before, but they don't now. Looking at etherigbe.c, I > see 'intergrate fiber stuff back in' in the todo list. Has anybody looked > at this recently

Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread hiro
> Assuming SHA-1 is indeed cryptographically secure (which is the assumption > made by the venti paper) Well, I read it like it was just sufficiently secure against unintended collisions. It's not intended to encrypt, but to efficiently store data.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
On that note, I have some devices connected via USB: keyboard, mouse, Seagate external HDD, OfficeJet printer. On Live CD boot up, I get several messages from usbd, something like: usbuhci: cleanTD 1/0: Error ... and four or so hex numbers take the place of the elipses. However, my keyboard and

Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: > entire sun-facing solid angle of the earth into a similarly perfect > computer, we get 2^192/2^32*(4.5 x 10^(-10)) ~~ 2^129 addition operations in Rats, I got overly happy with exponentiation (should be 2^5, not 2^32). Correcti

[9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:40:01PM +0900, sqweek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> Yes, but the content isn't guaranteed to be from a single user. In > >> fact, venti has no clue. Change that and it's not venti anymore. > > > > exactly. but it's important to no

[9fans] Intel 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet (Fiber)

2009-02-04 Thread Tristan Plumb
I've several Intel PRO/1000 XF cards that I would like to use. I remember these cards working before, but they don't now. Looking at etherigbe.c, I see 'intergrate fiber stuff back in' in the todo list. Has anybody looked at this recently and know what would be involved? I can muddle around and try

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
You may be facing with the same problem to me.☺ If so, there is no solution now... Kenji --- Begin Message --- Hello, I'm new to plan 9 and I tried installing / starting the live CD on my laptop. It does however get stuck in both situations during booting, at a line saying 'usbd..' and nothing el

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
If I understood your mail, the problem is that buf is 0. That's not always a problem for a usb td. It could be a 0-bytes transfer. Such thing is ok. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM, wrote: >> control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. >> That's not the issue probably. > > No, I meant kernel tried

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
> control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. > That's not the issue probably. No, I meant kernel tried to write to fd 0, not 0 byte. Kenji

Re: [9fans] Flash Video

2009-02-04 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/2/3 Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: > the original question was about flash video. > > many here seem to have interesting ideas, but obviously > not motivated enough to want to plan/research/read/understand. > > two clues: mpeg4 and rtp I think you mean RTMP. There are a couple of open R

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. That's not the issue probably. IMHO, it's likely that at some point the driver missed a td and from that point on the endpoint stalled. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, wrote: >> my P5K-VM machine's pci output is as follows: >> 0.26.0: usb 0c.03

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
> my P5K-VM machine's pci output is as follows: > 0.26.0: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2937 10 4:c481 32 > 0.26.1: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2938 3 4:c801 32 > 0.26.2: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2939 5 4:c881 32 > 0.29.0: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2934 5 4:c001 32 > 0.29.1: usb

[9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread bartvandelft
Hello, I'm new to plan 9 and I tried installing / starting the live CD on my laptop. It does however get stuck in both situations during booting, at a line saying 'usbd..' and nothing else. Could there be anything wrong with like finding the usb-connections? Thanks in advance, Bart

Re: [9fans] Flash Video

2009-02-04 Thread hiro
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > 2009/2/3 Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: >> the original question was about flash video. >> >> many here seem to have interesting ideas, but obviously >> not motivated enough to want to plan/research/read/understand. >> >> two clues: mpeg4

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Yes, but the content isn't guaranteed to be from a single user. In >> fact, venti has no clue. Change that and it's not venti anymore. > > exactly. but it's important to note that it's crypto hard to guess > somebody else's block. Is it