Re: [9fans] 9k amd64 kernel and floating point

cinap_len...@felloff.net once said: > There was never a Ureg* equivalent for the fpu state (being dumped on > the user stack). However, i believe, as the fpu is being disabled > during execution of the note handler, you could imaginge a handler > using fpregs file to read/modify the fpu state. > >

Re: [9fans] NIX OS: TODOs

ron minnich once said: > Also I'm still not completely understanding how 9 front does startup IPI -- > we added SIPI in nix, vector 62, but I don't see that in 9front. I added > VectorSIPI to pc/io.h, but maybe that's a botch. The startup IPI is handled by mpstartap and lapicstartap. Otherwise,

[9fans] Re: finding root blocks in a venti server

ashley once said: > is it possible to find the scores for all root blocks in a venti server? /sys/src/cmd/venti/words/dumpvacroots Cheers, Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf81f9125de5510db-M349a6119ba48f492793

[9fans] troll paper

"Do we really have to have our own kernel? What are the benefits?" ... The IWP9 paper titled "centre, left and right" looks like a complete troll. Was it generated by an LLM? I read the whole thing and it was a waste of time. Zero stars, would not recommend. Institutional Academy of the Academic

[9fans] Re: Pipes staying after sending note

Philip Silva via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> once said: > if ((cpid = fork()) != 0) { > close(infd[1]); > close(outfd[1]); > > n = write(infd[0], "test", 4); > printf("check process: wrote %d bytes\n", n); > > sendn

Re: [9fans] Adjust Thinkpad Screen Brightness

un...@cpan.org once said: > I reviewed the data sheet and the scripts should > work, but does not. The above scripts can work for some Intel cards but probably not for all of them. I wrote a program fifteen years ago to adjust the brightness on an Intel MacBook from Linux. There was a bit of expe

Re: [9fans] Adjust Thinkpad Screen Brightness

o...@eigenstate.org once said: > not nicely integrated. Depending on your card, something like > this may work: > > [...] > > You'll have to figure out where the backlight PWM register is > on your model of video card if this doesn't just work out of > the box. Konstantinn wrote a version of your

Re: [9fans] [PATCH] fossil: fix a deadlock in the caching logic

Charles Forsyth once said: > It's funny that usually "it wasn't me" is used when breaking things. here > it's fixing them, but I'm fairly sure "it wasn't me" that fixed it. It was Richard Miller in 2012. https://9p.io/sources/patch/applied/fossil-snap-deadlock/ https://9p.io/sour

[9fans] spim syscall stack adjustment

Does anyone know why the libc system call functions for spim add four to the stack pointer (R29) before issuing the SYSCALL instruction? /sys/src/libc/9syscall/mkfile:/spim It was introduced in the third edition but there were never any spim kernels released so I wasn't able to compare th

Re: [9fans] non-interruptible temporary: why do we care?

un...@cpan.org once said: > Quoth o...@eigenstate.org: > > Why do we warn about non-interruptible > > temporaries? What issues am I missing? > > Silence to this question means no one knows, right? There is nothing new under the sun. Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:10:20 -0400 From: Russ

[9fans] Re: rc: <{command} and > mess with exit status

adr via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> once said: > ; if(grep a <{echo a} >/tmp/1) echo true > ; > > Is this expected? This was fixed a few years ago in 9front: http://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/2839760066e578e449ebc8b3d71297b9f79a8c99/commit.html Cheers, Anthony --

[9fans] Re: What's a mounted channel?

Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> once said: > The comments on the #define lines and a commented out section of > stat(2) say (DM|QT)MOUNT indicates a mounted channel, what is this? > > Also, why does exportfs fork and the kernel not send write on closed > pipe notes for mounted channel

Re: [9fans] Foundation new releases question

Ethan Gardener once said: > the later breaking change to 9p auth Which change was that? Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc472e4a0c0b6f084-M5a6466d3fd80eaa026b0f9dc Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/

Re: [9fans] 9P reading directories client/server behavior

nicolagi via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> once said: > The only question that still stands is the last in my original post: > What happens and what should happen when a dir entry is larger than > msize-24? Possibly written from a connection with a large msize, and to > be read from a connection with a s

[9fans] Re: 9p(2) and walk1

pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io once said: > Are these subtle differences (the two in the man page and the third in > code) intentional? It's my first time implementing a 9P file system > so apologies if I'm missing something basic. It's actually just a case of forgetting to update the man page. In e

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

Lucio De Re once said: > the fact that we have different objectives needs to be addressed at a > philosophical level. How else are we going to select from conflicting > alternatives? Let a hundred flowers blossom. Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: htt

[9fans] Re: Plan 9 Foundation

Anthony Sorace once said: > Collier Can *I* buy a vowel? Not this one but another, Here and on the site. Cheers, Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-M99db8eabd2cbcc95399a1d53 Delivery options: ht

[9fans] Re: cfs

Steve Simon once said: > The error occurs on the first write to /srv/boot. > > I can mount /srv/boot with mount(1) without problems. > > What have I missed? The kernel doesn't allow you to explicitly read from or write to a channel that the mount driver is using. Cheers, Anthony -

[9fans] brazil ip stack source code

Does anyone have a copy of the alef source code for the user mode ip stack that was in brazil? Maybe you could leave it hanging off the back of your truck? Or swap it for beer? Cheers, Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: [9fans] Arm Thumb compiler for Cortex-M

While we're asking questions, how does utils/tl differ from utils/5l? Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc22ac8ae61456f10-M2563a68e7482ebdc4221b9cc Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscri

[9fans] Re: /proc/n/status's memory field

Kyohei Kadota once said: > I'm reading proc(3). It describes the status file: > > > the amount of memory used by the process, except its stack, in units of > > 1024 bytes > > In /sys/src/9/pc/port/proc.c, it seems to me that procread sums all > segment's size for that. > Is the above statement

[9fans] Acme fonts

[cc -golang-nuts, +9fans] > io/fs draft design > - Video: https://golang.org/s/draft-iofs-video Russ, what did you do to that poor little Acme?! ☺ Did you take the less daunting route using - a combined font file with shapes for normal, italic, bold, etc. and - a filter to offset runes into

[9fans] Re: which programs use dynld(2)?

It's used to load kernel modules in Inferno. Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbca49dda768294c8-M772b5be61791472285ed70f5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] Re: Jim McKie

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Re: [9fans] Gmail vs upas

o...@eigenstate.org once said: > Unrelatedly, would there be interest in adding the `$split{cmd} syntax > from 9atom to 9legacy? I think it's currently the only reason that > git9 doesn't work out of the box there, and it's very nice syntax. I'm not a fan of the `word{...} syntax. It's odd to all

Re: [9fans] Re: moving 9fans to new server, but still 9fans@9fans.net

Ethan Gardener once said: > As for the footer, I'm sure I'll be glad to have the permalink in every > email, and it's not in the headers. > > [...] > > Permalink: > https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T73a7388a716e3644-M377ada983df012733fe78595 It is in the headers: Archived-At:

[9fans] Re: moving 9fans to new server, but still 9fans@9fans.net

Anthony Martin once said: > This is missing the dozen or so messages from the beginning of the > mailing list in April 1993. I have them in mbox format if you are > interested in adding them to your archive. Also, the following messages in the Topicbox archive are duplicates. They are

Re: [9fans] Re: moving 9fans to new server, but still 9fans@9fans.net

hiro <23h...@gmail.com> once said: > there's also a plaintext version of this, adding 5 lines to every > email. all this seems quite redundent if you ask me. And it's all in duplicated in the headers. Can it be turned off? Anthony -- 9fans: 9fans Permali

[9fans] Re: moving 9fans to new server, but still 9fans@9fans.net

Russ Cox once said: > The 9fans archives now > hosted at Topicbox contain all the messages formerly at > 9fans.net/archive (before that machine went down), dating all the way > back to July 1993. This is missing the dozen or so messages from the beginning

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for Xtensa CPUs

Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> once said: > I see the above list uses .e and .j for riscv and riscv64 - > are these just reserved or are there actual compilers somewhere? No, it was just a suggestion on my part. If I remember correctly, I thought it was mildly clever that 'e' is the fifth let

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for Xtensa CPUs

Charles Forsyth once said: > I'd need a letter or number and thought about reusing x (xa/xc/xl) since > the AT&T DSP is long gone https://github.com/0intro/plan9-mips/tree/master/sys/src/cmd/4c https://github.com/0intro/plan9-mips/blob/master/rc/bin/xc I think I sent this to the list once before

[9fans] nCUBE, Transit, and Plan 9

mycrof...@sphericalharmony.com once said: > Most recently, I have been pursing historical investigation and > recreation of systems based on the hypercubic computers which rose to > prominence in the late 1980s. Most interesting (to me) are the > systems from nCUBE, which transitioned during the 1

Re: [9fans] Don't Plan 9 C compiler initialize the rest of member of a?struct?

Charles Forsyth once said: > I didn't look at the code closely enough earlier, but remembered something > from years ago this morning. It's a bug. It isn't platform specific. > There is an existing fix in 9front (I think it came from there) but it's > horrible. Still, better a horrible fix than bu

Re: [9fans] How does one read a file line by line in an rc script?

Mack Wallace once said: > Another, probably more stupid question - How does one read a text file > line by line in an rc script. You should really read the rc(1) man page. It will answer your questions. Here the functions foo and bar are equivalent: fn foo { <$1 while(l

Re: [9fans] rc scripts, how to get spaces in array elements generated by command output?

Mack Wallace once said: > My question: Is there a way to take the string output of a command that > contains spaces and make it a single element of an array in rc script? > > [...] > > However, if I am receiving output from sed that contains spaces from > the following script line > > string_var

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V by Richard Miller

Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> once said: > How about i for rIscv32 and j for riscv64 (one more than i)? Or even e for riscv since it's the fifth letter in the alphabet. :) Let me know what you decide and I'll update my table. > I used n for nios2. na and aux/na commands are distinct, and >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V by Richard Miller

Charles Forsyth once said: > I had a chart somewhere with the available non-unicode letters. I made one a few years ago. It's at http://pbrane.org/comp.html I just updated it with a suggestion for the RISC-V letters. Anthony

Re: [9fans] Why Plan 9 uses $ifs instead of $IFS?

Note that variables in the Mashey shell were single letters in lower-case. $p was similar to $PATH in the Bourne shell. Maybe Tom just split the difference. Have you asked him? :) Anthony

Re: [9fans] A heartfelt thanks... :-)

Ciao Giacomo, Why did you choose to create devself? Everything it does seems better suited to devproc. If I was going that route, I'd instead create a QTDIR file in devproc called #p/self that is just another view into #p/$pid. Then brk and chdir would be control messages written to #p/self/ctl. S

Re: [9fans] Namespace inheritance between processes

Anthony Martin once said: > Casey Rodarmor once said: > > Also, whatever the answer is, how can I test this for myself? I was > > struggling to come up with a combination of commands, short of writing > > some C programs, which would let me have two interactive rc shells

Re: [9fans] Namespace inheritance between processes

Casey Rodarmor once said: > > Let's say I have a process A which forks a child process B with the > > RFNAMEG so it receives a copy of A's namespace. > > > > If process A then makes a change to its namespace, will process B see > > that change? Or does B receive a distinct copy that A then can't >

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

erik quanstrom once said: > unfortunately, the simlification removes the code that solves an important > use case. it's important to be able to specify the protocol or network stack, > such as in > > ip/ping /net.alt/icmp!someaddress Most commands use an -x option and setnetmtpt(2) to arr

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

arisawa once said: > is this a feature or a bug? It looks like a bug to me. The code in /sys/src/cmd/ip/ping.c:/^isv4name is too clever for it's own good. Anthony

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

hiro <23h...@gmail.com> once said: > Also, "crazy closed firmware blobs" is a violation of our COC. Some > people here develop firmware blobs and don't want to hear such > insults. It says more about you that you're insulted by something so innocuous. Email me privately if you'd like some real in

Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9

Prof Brucee once said: > i was gonna suggest as per rob's post that chan.c was a good place to check > for gcc introduced code. anyone actually going to diff the code or is it > all going to be speculation? I looked. The diff is basically s/uvlong/uint64_t/; s/MOVL/movl/ and the addition of some

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

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

Re: [9fans] GO Programming Environment in Plan 9.

erik quanstrom once said: > > We're all just waiting for the tree to open up again. > > i thought that was the promise of dcs -- you don't have to wait. > where did this whole thing fail? Well, I really meant we're waiting for the point in the development schedule that allows new code to be up f

Re: [9fans] GO Programming Environment in Plan 9.

minux once said: > On Nov 30, 2014 3:10 PM, "Mats Olsson" wrote: > > Just googled and found: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoArm > > > > So it seems that it's supported. > go on arm only supports Linux, Freebsd, Netbsd, nacl and Darwin > (unofficial). > > plan 9 is not on the list (yet)

Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> once said: > - finally, after receiving a "Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked" > email from google, followed their suggestion to: > > "change your settings at > https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your > account is no longer

Re: [9fans] kernel bug

erik quanstrom once said: > i don't know where a history of stuff older than sources (2002) is. /n/sources/extra/9hist Anthony

Re: [9fans] kernel bug

Yoann Padioleau once said: > in the newseg() function there is: > > [...] > > I think it should be > if(mapsize > (SEGMAPSIZE)) > mapsize = SEGMAPSIZE; Yes, you're correct. The code allows the creation of a segment VM map with more than SEGMAPSIZE Ptes. Personally, I'd remove the ch

Re: [9fans] Go 1.3b1 cmd/pack test takes too long

Skip Tavakkolian once said: > thanks; i should have checked that. running it on the fossil+venti server > brings it down a bit. still, it's not stellar. > > bootes% go test > PASS > ok cmd/pack 81.480s > bootes% go test > PASS > ok cmd/pack 79.719s Here's a CL to buffer the writes in TestLar

Re: [9fans] Go 1.3b1 cmd/pack test takes too long

Skip Tavakkolian once said: > is anyone else seeing similar results for cmd/pack? > > % go test > PASS > ok cmd/pack 172.505s > > this is on an atom (d525 @ 1.8ghz, 4gb). same test on an arm (quad core a9 > @ 1.7ghz, 2gb, linux 3.8) takes much less time: > > % go test > PASS > ok cmd/pac

Re: [9fans] imagereclaim()

Charles Forsyth once said: > I also ripped out all the swap stuff. Either I'm on a machine with at last > a Gb or two of RAM, or it's embedded > and there's no paging disk, or both. What do you do when you're out of memory? Panic? Do you still have something like the kickpager in nix? Anthony

Re: [9fans] 9front sleep interrupted in kproc?

Anthony Martin once said: > erik quanstrom once said: > > since kprocs don't get notes (it's an error to write to the note file), > > sleep in a kproc can't get interrupted. this code will never fire. > > It looks like they can on 9front. Actually, this i

Re: [9fans] 9front sleep interrupted in kproc?

erik quanstrom once said: > since kprocs don't get notes (it's an error to write to the note file), > sleep in a kproc can't get interrupted. this code will never fire. It looks like they can on 9front. The following is from pc/vgavesa.c:/^vesaproc /* * dont wait forever here.

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

erik quanstrom once said: > On Mon Dec 2 19:51:11 EST 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom > > wrote: > > > python's requirements are a proper subset of go's, since building go > > > requires > > > python be installed. > > > > No, it doesn't. Using mer

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

erik quanstrom once said: > > 2. Use of Go's libbio, rather than Plan 9's. Alternatively libbio on Plan 9 > > can be changed. It's not clear to me why this would be a bad thing. > > i object to the macros they have been adding. they haven't been included > in p9p, either. adding B(put|get)(le|b

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

Steve Simon once said: > Whne I looked at Go - maybe 2 years ago, I could not see why > plan9 would not adopt go's 8c/8l and libbio. > > obviously others disagree as they have not been back-ported, > but why not? - I'am not trolling, genuine question. We couldn't adopt the Go ?[acl] toolchain wh

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

erik quanstrom once said: > On Mon Dec 2 10:01:48 EST 2013, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > > is the threat standing? that is, if the plan 9 port is broken again > > > when 1.5 rolls around in just a few more months, does the plan 9 > > > port get booted then, too? > > > > The threat is real: P

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

Skip Tavakkolian once said: > is this the patch set you're referring to? > https://codereview.appspot.com/download/issue9796043_58001.diff > > if so, is there a diff set for go1.2? Hi Skip, There were a few problems with that CL that I'm just now starting to iron out so I extracted out the memm

Re: [9fans] Building Go/386

erik quanstrom once said: > since even ghostscript doesn't get into this state, i'd be interested > in the line of code (and types of the variables) that hits this fatal > condition. I posted a small piece of code that triggers this on golang-dev. Here it is: % cat x.c unsigned long long x; in

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

cinap_len...@gmx.de once said: > or GO could just stop using *OMG-OPTIMIZED* SSE memmove() > in the note handler. This is exactly what I did in my patch. This was just a regression. Someone changed memmove a few weeks ago. Nothing to see here. Anthony

Re: [9fans] 21-bit runes

Thank you. I very much appreciate the work that went into this. And thanks to Erik for his previous set of patches. Anthony

Re: [9fans] open file in awk script?

dexen deVries once said: > trying to create a standalone awk script (#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/awk -f). > > how to open a file in BEGIN pattern section and set it as next input file? > > not helped so far: FILENAME="foo.txt" > nor ARGV[1]="foo.txt"; nextfile; ARGV[ARGC++] = "foo.txt" Anthony

Re: [9fans] curious mtime of cwfs

cinap_len...@gmx.de once said: > i'm not sure. if you touch an existing file, then it makes sense > that the files mtime gets updated, not the whole directory. > > wstat() and write() on a file only update the files mtime, not > the parent directory. > > however creating a new file or deleting a f

Re: [9fans] going too far?

I sent out a CL that should reduce the time that this takes. Can you try it out? https://codereview.appspot.com/7369044/ Thanks, Anthony

Re: [9fans] going too far?

lu...@proxima.alt.za once said: > I think the Go tool does cover C programs and even (somebody will > correct me if I'm wrong, I hope) assembler ones. It would be silly if > it didn't, or at least hard to use for things like the runtime. One > of Go's weak spots is that a lot of unconventional be

Re: [9fans] ASCII character conversion program in assembler

I have a few suggestions and corrections. 1. You have to actually allocate space for your local variables. This means either calculating how much space you'll need and annotating the TEXT pseudo-instruction or decrementing the SP as you go. 2. Calls into the kernel must look like normal

Re: [9fans] Go: CGO and Plan 9

Aram Hăvărneanu once said: > ?c and ?g use the same calling convention, and segmented stacks are > implemented by the linker. You don't need cgo in order to call C code > from Go. Why do you want cgo? This isn't true. Most of the Plan 9 compilers will pass the first function argument in a registe

[9fans] maxround and stack frame sizes

I'm curious about the origins of the maxround function in the compilers. Specifically, why is 5c different from all the others? It seems the common implementation gives rise to unnecessarily large stack frames. For convenience: /sys/src/cmd/6c/swt.c:/^maxround /sys/src/cmd/5c/swt.c:/^max

Re: [9fans] 9atom-nix

This is really great. Thanks for all your work, Erik. Anthony

[9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth?

What's the story behind the curious reference to this phrase in the code for timesync(8)? Who wrote this code? presotto? It's rather funny. Anthony

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

erik quanstrom once said: > > No. They're written using BYTE instructions where needed. > > > > Currently 8g will only generate 387 style fp code but the > > is to eventually use SSE. See http://golang.org/issue/3912. > > > > that's not what i read. i read that it's going to be a compile-time

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

erik quanstrom once said: > On Mon Dec 10 19:11:39 EST 2012, al...@pbrane.org wrote: > > Charles Forsyth once said: > > > MOVQ isn't a 32-bit instruction. > > > > It is if you're using MMX registers. > > does 8g default to using mmx? No. They're written using BYTE instructions where needed. C

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

Charles Forsyth once said: > MOVQ isn't a 32-bit instruction. It is if you're using MMX registers. Anthony

Re: [9fans] why is /dev/mousein exclusive use?

Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> once said: > Is there a good reason to forbid multiple processes to open > the mousein device? I can't think what trouble it could cause > (writes have to be atomic anyway because the driver will only > parse a complete input), and it makes it awkward to debug >

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

lu...@proxima.alt.za once said: > > Yes, the tsemacquire syscall is not currently implemented in 9vx. > > The "ticks" field is also not present in the mach structure, so adding > tsemacquire isn't trivial. I was hoping to get away with just adding > the field, but if the comment is correct, I nee

Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!

Charles Forsyth once said: > this is just a sample, but there were other likely candidates: Ah. I thought we were talking about Go code not C. Carry on. Anthony

Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!

Charles Forsyth once said: > On 22 November 2012 03:44, Bruce Ellis wrote: > > uintptr in all over the go packages because it is right. > > I hadn't noticed that particularly, but having grep'd the source, I > see it's also used for variables that are counters and numbers of > things. Can you gi

Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9

erik quanstrom once said: > On Fri Nov 2 09:44:43 EDT 2012, pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: > > > How much memory does your system have? > > > > - 512 MB RAM > > - 512 MB swap > > > > > Changeset 14739 grew the Unicode collation tables > > > in the exp/locale/collate package by a considerable

Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9

Pavel Klinkovsky once said: > I made another test. > I compared compilation of exp/locale/collate of the Go build 14738 and > 14739 (and later). > > Compilation of 14738 does not consume RAM a lot. > Compilation of 14739 (and later) consume a huge amount of RAM > (involving swap). > > So it seem

Re: [9fans] 9grid?

John Floren once said: > Write a basic http server for Plan 9 (in C) and run Apache Benchmark > against it. Somewhere around 100 concurrent connections, I tend to get > failure. There's code in /sys/src/9/ip that has a hard limit on the # > of concurrent connections IIRC. What happens when it fai

Re: [9fans] empty *

% sed -n 20,32p /sys/src/cmd/grep/grep.y prog: /* empty */ { yyerror("empty pattern"); } | expr newlines { $$.beg = ral(Tend); $$.end = $$.beg; $$ = re2cat(re2star(re2or(re2char(0x00, '\n'-1), re2char('

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> once said: > All mentioned words are part of the eternal fight > between DP9IK and SP9SSS. As we all know is DP9IK winning. We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy! Anthony

Re: [9fans] Potential BoF in San Francisco

"Peter A. Cejchan" once said: > BTW, what is the current status of 9Go ... I still use 60.2 I just noticed this mail. Sorry. To build the current Go codebase you need four patches. Two should be applied to the Plan 9 tree: /n/sources/patch/kernel-tsemacquire /n/sources/patch/fmt-prese

[9fans] Potential BoF in San Francisco

The first GoSF meetup¹ will be this Wednesday, April 18th, and I'll be there if anyone wants to talk about the port of Go to Plan 9 (or about Plan 9 in general). Cheers, Anthony 1. http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/49802152/

Re: [9fans] discrepency between plan9 and ixpc

Eli Cohen once said: > % echo b115200 > /dev/eiaU0/eiaUctl > % mount -ncC /dev/eiaU0/eiaU /n/anything > % ls /n/anything > anything > > the output of ls is just whatever directory i mount it in, though accessing > arductl and ardudata works fine despite their absence from the directory > listing.

Re: [9fans] C compiler error?

Charles Forsyth once said: > that's a little tidier, but still not right. the original > pswt.c code was fine (or nearly so). the problem is > actually in 8c's handling of 64-bit values and registers. I'm not sure I understand entirely. Could you elaborate this a bit? Also I'm a bit confused ab

Re: [9fans] C compiler error?

Charles Forsyth once said: I abandoned my old CL and sent another that allows 64-bit switch expressions for all of the Go compilers. A patch for [5678kqv]c will be hitting sources soon. Stay tuned. Anthony

Re: [9fans] C compiler error?

Lucio De Re once said: > New features in Go require a new function in the reflect.c module > (src/cmd/gc/reflect.c). The C compiler (8c, in this case) reports an > error which does not seem to apply: > > 8c -I/go/include -I/go/386/include -FTVw ../gc/reflect.c > ../gc/reflect.c:987 switch expres

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

erik quanstrom once said: > > IMO using anything other than Make to build > > the Go distribution is a fool's errand and > > simply too much of a maintenance burden. > > We would have to carefully watch upstream > > changes to any of the many Makefiles. > > > > Using make isn't as bad as some mak

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

Pavel Zholkover once said: > Is the builder going to be based on the native > build or will it be cross-compiled ? It will be native. Anthony

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

Lucio De Re once said: > > Have you tried? It's a non-invasive change, and once they are set > > up it's unlikely they will need to be updated often. > > I think Anthony is on the right path on this point, in that I've had > to update a couple of mkfiles in the recent past because I had > overlo

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

Lyndon Nerenberg once said: > I stopped at gmake. What can't mk do that demands gmake? There's nothing wrong with mk. It's just that I highly doubt we could get a separate set of mkfiles included in the Go distribution. I've tried to get things going with the smallest set of changes to both Pl

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

Anthony Martin once said: > You would think so but that's how > where the headers are expected to > be for Go's libmach. "how where"? I shouldn't type when tired. Anthony

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

erik quanstrom once said: > > 386/include/go/ureg_arm.h > > 386/include/go/ureg_x86.h > > surely that's the wrong place. You would think so but that's how where the headers are expected to be for Go's libmach. % gg 'include.*ureg' src/cmd/cov/main.c:14: #include src/cmd/prof/main.c:12:

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

Charles Forsyth once said: > modified library headers? % ls (386 sys)^/include/go 386/include/go/u.h 386/include/go/ureg_amd64.h 386/include/go/ureg_arm.h 386/include/go/ureg_x86.h sys/include/go/ar.h sys/include/go/bio.h sys/include/go/bootexec.h sys/include/go/goenv.h sys/include/go/libc.h sys/

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

ts. Cheers, Anthony # Building Go on Plan 9 # Anthony Martin # al...@pbrane.org # This document will guide you through the process # of compiling the commands and packages in the Go # source code distribution. # # Before we get started you should make sure you # have GNU Make installed. The

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9

John Floren once said: > How many different Go porting efforts do we now > have for Plan 9? There's apparently yours, Ron's, > Lucio's, and I think the 9front guys have/had > something cooking too. That's it as far as I know. > Which ones can actually be updated with "hg pull"? None yet. I h

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