Re: [9fans] compiling xen3 with more recent pc kernel

2015-06-21 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
thanks. i saw the note and was wondering if for xen3 it could be stubbed out. >> i had to make the following changes to the kernel for xen3 to match up >> to recent labs pc kernel and to compile successfully. can anyone >> verify the changes are correct? (i could to a smoke test on EC2, but >>

Re: [9fans] Plan9 DNS server

2015-06-21 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
are you handing out IP configuration via dhcp? i have a mixed plan9, linux, mac os x, windows environment. my /lib/ndb/local is based on /n/sources/plan9/lib/ndb/local.complicated. there are at least two cpu's that serve as dns and dhcp servers. some non-plan9 systems have entires in ndb (i.e.

Re: [9fans] compiling xen3 with more recent pc kernel

2015-06-21 Thread David du Colombier
> i had to make the following changes to the kernel for xen3 to match up > to recent labs pc kernel and to compile successfully. can anyone > verify the changes are correct? (i could to a smoke test on EC2, but > don't feel adventurous at the moment) The evenaddr function in trap.c should be rep

[9fans] compiling xen3 with more recent pc kernel

2015-06-21 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i had to make the following changes to the kernel for xen3 to match up to recent labs pc kernel and to compile successfully. can anyone verify the changes are correct? (i could to a smoke test on EC2, but don't feel adventurous at the moment) thanks, % yesterday -D mem.h fns.h trap.c diff -n /n

[9fans] USB-to-parallel?

2015-06-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
Anyone done usb-to-parallel under Plan 9? If so, model and/or code?

Re: [9fans] Why does pread(2) modify the channel offset?

2015-06-21 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 21 June 2015 at 11:44, Anthony Martin wrote: > Thoughts? As with programming language specifications, when it says "equivalent" it is ignoring any subtle differences. Neither call is supposed to change the offset, although it wasn't noticed for the reason you gave. One exception is reading

[9fans] Why does pread(2) modify the channel offset?

2015-06-21 Thread Anthony Martin
During the investigation of a failure in the Go test suite, I was led to the following question: Why does pread(2) modify the channel offset? When pread and pwrite were added to the kernel in Feb 2001, neither of them modified the underlying channel offset for a given file descriptor. This was

[9fans] Plan9 DNS server

2015-06-21 Thread arisawa
Hello, how to make DNS server that serves for computers on my home network? I tried: ndb/dns -rs 192.168.0.3 is my server’s IP. the name is “maia” and registered /lib/ndb/local as sys=maia dom=maia.local -bash$ nslookup > www.google.com Server: 192.168.0.3 Address:192.168.0.3#53