Re: [9fans] Parallels 6/7 and Q(qemu for mac)

2011-09-20 Thread mccoyst
Networking in Q doesn't work on OSX because qemu needs a TUN/TAP bridge to get off the host. OSX doesn't come with the tools to set it up as far as I can tell — some searching I did a while back made it seem like older versions of OSX may have had the appropriate programs, but nothing I could fi

Re: [9fans] reverse search direction in p9p acme

2011-09-20 Thread Rob Pike
rio doesn't have button 3 search. acme does. -rob

Re: [9fans] sys: floating point in note handler

2011-09-20 Thread cinap_lenrek
i never hit that one. maybe pure luck. the linux signal handler doesnt execute under the plan9 note context so it could just use fp if it wanted to. the problem might be that we dont pass a proper fpu context in the note. to get the fp context, we would need to read /proc/n/fpreg wich is expensive

[9fans] sys: floating point in note handler

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Simon
working on linuxemu I find perl seems to use floating point in a signal handler - I have not worked out where or why as getting debug symbols for perl is harder than I expected. I understand note handlers are not alowed to use floating point, but why is this - is it just for simplicity - "it was n

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Miller
>> Already done.  The inferno distribution contains, in /utils, all >> the Plan 9 xa, xc, xl (for x in [012568kv]) compilable by gcc. > > Would this be possible to use for a cross compiler with a Plan9 > target? This *is* a cross compiler with a Plan 9 target. It generates Plan 9 binaries, which

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Miller
> I found out that `ls #u' is useful since #u is the short name bound to the > usb directory. So if it works it means that usbd is up? No, the existence of '#u' just shows that the kernel usb driver exists and a usb interface has been found. The user-level usbd program is needed in order to conn

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-20 Thread faif
I removed the similar topic, sorry for posting twice but the delay was long thus I assumed that this one never reached the group. I found out that `ls #u' is useful since #u is the short name bound to the usb directory. So if it works it means that usbd is up? Nevertheless the problem still rem

Re: [9fans] reverse search direction in p9p acme

2011-09-20 Thread roger peppe
On 19 September 2011 19:17, Rob Pike wrote: > i don't think either does anything. indeed, but it's a useful nothing - they cancel an impending b3 action, useful if you're sweeping with b3 and started in the wrong place.

Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command

2011-09-20 Thread David du Colombier
> Ok. I wonder how I could forget to rebuilt then, but I did. > Anyway, after rebuilding I get: > > ;$PLAN9/bin/upas/smtp -ai 'tcp!128.141.146.215!12345' > rudolf.syk...@gmail.com rudolf.syk...@cern.ch Segmentation fault > ; I obtained the same behavior on Fedora 15. It doesn't happen on earlier

Re: [9fans] Parallels 6/7 and Q(qemu for mac)

2011-09-20 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:12:40 EDT ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Parallels 6 runs Plan 9 for me. And virtualbox 4.1.0 has worked for me (with 9atom).