Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Maxwell Underwood
Roman V. Shaposhnik writes: > If we were to oversimplify things [then the] brain >is, at its core, limited by a very fundamental biological constraint: >speed at which cells can communicate. A sort of "propagation delay" >if we were to use electronics as an analogy. It seems to be agr

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-08-05 Thread Eris Discordia
Either that or (like some brain scientists say) something is really, really wrong or suboptimal about the human brain. Despite prospects of brain uptime--that's LE--being around 77.71 years for each individual of the USAmerican population and the "entire history" of computers being shorter tha

Re: [9fans] Reliable 9vx(.OSX) crash

2008-08-05 Thread Uriel
The hg web interface can automatically provide tarballs of the latest tip, simply add: allow_archive = bz2 zip to your hgweb.config (there is a way to do this per-project, but I don't remember how). For an example of how it works see http://repo.cat-v.org/hg/ uriel On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:50 AM

[9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread sqweek
Ran into an interesting one setting up my cpu server. The following reliably freezes the box: # echo dma on >/dev/sdC0/ctl # 9fat: Leaves the console totally unresponsive, no ^T^Tp, no ^P. rc -x on 9fat: gives "rfork e" as the final command. sdC0 is a cdrom. I can turn dma on for my sata disks

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread Sape Mullender
I wonder why there is a command to turn on DMA on disks. Could it be that some disks don't work with DMA on? Sape --- Begin Message --- Ran into an interesting one setting up my cpu server. The following reliably freezes the box: # echo dma on >/dev/sdC0/ctl # 9fat: Leaves the console

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder why there is a command to turn on DMA on disks. Could > it be that some disks don't work with DMA on? sure. it's PC hardware, so it's crap :-) ron

[9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and including yields name clashes. Thanks.

[9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-05 Thread gdiaz
Hi did anyone know if this controller is supported by the sata driver? i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it going. The new 9grid.es server has this controller, it would be a p

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I wonder why there is a command to turn on DMA on disks. Could > > it be that some disks don't work with DMA on? > sure. it's PC hardware, so it's crap :-) unfortunately, this isn't a pc hardware thing. pata devices are not required to support dma. ata 7, which is the first to include sata

Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported > at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it > going. try http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c. i hadn't enabled this in the release version because i didn't have any hardware on which

[9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
the threaded view is pretty useful but a good bit of the time, i skim the list archives in order. is there any way to get the old, unthreaded view? - erik

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread Uriel
Ah, the old format was very nice, but to have threading at last is very nice too, but I agree having both would be best. Is the code used to generate the 9fans.net web archives somewhere? The output is much better than any other mailing list web archive I have seen. uriel On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Cox
> the threaded view is pretty useful but a good > bit of the time, i skim the list archives in order. > is there any way to get the old, unthreaded view? Sequential messages with the same subject get grouped so that the subject is given only once, but there is no reordering of messages. Now that

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> Sequential messages with the same > subject get grouped so that the subject > is given only once, but there is no > reordering of messages. > > Now that you know that, do you still want > the old, unthreaded view? I can't see that > it has any advantage over the current one. okay. that makes

Re: [9fans] a question on style

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> > OK, am I just out of date or is there a real reason for linker > > sets? > > I see it this way: > > using linker sets means you have to learn and understand the linkers > language > to understand how the system is configured (when trying to track down a > problem) > > usi

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Cox
> Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My > program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and > including yields name clashes. Thanks. Why not change your program not to use standard names for its own purposes? Russ

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Russ Cox wrote: Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and including yields name clashes. Thanks. Why not change your program not to use standard names for its own purposes? Russ

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread ron minnich
I'm so confused. Why don't you just show the code. ron

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:14 PM, ron minnich wrote: I'm so confused. Why don't you just show the code. ron #include ... #include ... static struct{ char *name; double value; }constants[] = { ... "MIN",DBL_MIN, "MAX",DBL_M