Re: [9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9

2011-05-14 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:55:20PM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com once said: > > There is one utility used by MetaPost scripts: a binary "newer" using > > POSIX (sys/stat.h) mainly because if on POSIX compliant systems one can > > use find(1) with "-cnewer", Plan9 has not find(

Re: [9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9

2011-05-14 Thread Anthony Martin
tlaro...@polynum.com once said: > There is one utility used by MetaPost scripts: a binary "newer" using > POSIX (sys/stat.h) mainly because if on POSIX compliant systems one can > use find(1) with "-cnewer", Plan9 has not find(1). > > [...] > > What would be the prefered way using utilities availa

[9fans] Easy stating of newer files on Plan9

2011-05-14 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I have finished to add MetaPost to kerTeX and I'm testing and polishing. My aim is to have something strictly C89. There is one utility used by MetaPost scripts: a binary "newer" using POSIX (sys/stat.h) mainly because if on POSIX compliant systems one can use find(1) with "-cnewer", Plan

Re: [9fans] dial errstr question

2011-05-14 Thread rod
>it also introduces some non-determinism that might be trouble. Also, it does seem to be the case that most big internet sites have multiple ip addresses which rotate each time a dns query is issued. Ebay has 6 for example. A dial to www.ebay.co.uk now sends 6 syns. Maybe a couple of the ip addr

Re: [9fans] dial errstr question

2011-05-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat May 14 04:09:08 EDT 2011, r...@hemiola.co.uk wrote: > I notice that the dial implementaion has recently changed to support > dialling multiple ip addresses in parallel. > > If one dials a single-ip host that isn't responding to ip packets > then, after the tcp timeout expires, errstr is set

[9fans] dial errstr question

2011-05-14 Thread rod
I notice that the dial implementaion has recently changed to support dialling multiple ip addresses in parallel. If one dials a single-ip host that isn't responding to ip packets then, after the tcp timeout expires, errstr is set to "connection refused". If however one dials a host that has mult

Re: [9fans] exportfs / u9fs / v9fs / npfs / spfs versus 9vx

2011-05-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
>Have you had trouble getting to u9fs from 9vx? no. in 9vx: term% 9fs biglin term% ls /n/biglin /n/biglin/bin /n/biglin/boot /n/biglin/cdrom /n/biglin/dev /n/biglin/etc /n/biglin/home /n/biglin/initrd.img /n/biglin/lib /n/biglin/lost+found /n/biglin/media /n/biglin/mnt ... biglin is a li