Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
>My program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and >including yields name clashes. Thanks. > #include > ... > #include it's surprisingly important not to leave out important information, such as what important things were in the "..." (other include files) and, most importa

Re: [9fans] Plan9 install CDROM seems only want to install from fd0

2008-08-06 Thread RyanMcCoskrie
sdC0!cdboot!9pccd.gz right. Thanks, I'll try that once my brother is done with supertux.

[9fans] keyboard layout

2008-08-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any support for other keyboards than the QWERTY type. I am interested in a german QWERTZ layout. I wonder as there is no history function with the cl input? I just get chaotic characters with the arrow keys. Kind regards

Re: [9fans] keyboard layout

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Is there any support for other keyboards than the QWERTY type. I am > interested in a german QWERTZ layout. > > I wonder as there is no history function with the cl input? I just get > chaotic characters with the arrow keys. see kbmap(1) and kbmap(3). also the recent discussion on building a k

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-06 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:06 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: My program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and including yields name clashes. Thanks. #include ... #include it's surprisingly important not to leave out important information, such as what important things were in t

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> If your unpleasant way is to copy float.h, it won't work; you'll need > one for each $objtype. I found an algorithm to get epsilon, but not > min or max. > as far as i know, all plan 9 compilers use IEEE 754-compatable semantics (at least insomuch as allowed by hardware). thus the minima a

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-06 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 :-) > ron the ata spec does not require dma for pata devices. sata, first specified in ata 7, requires udma mode 5, though sata:pata bridges

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse on mac os x

2008-08-06 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 16, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: it's a little deeper; i'm wading in the mire that is libfuse to see if i can spot the difference from what 9pfuse has. i'm hoping some combination of '-o's to mount_fusefs will fix it. Sadly it's not the mount_fusefs that's failing. I've

Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> 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 wou

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse on mac os x

2008-08-06 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i was able to get Rangboom snsa -- which uses code from Russ' 9pfuse -- to work with macfuse 1.7 (on os x 10.4.x). the latest 9pfuse has the patch sqweek sent for xattr; i wonder if that's the problem? it's depressing to see that Finder acts as demented as Explorer with incessant directory traver

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse on mac os x

2008-08-06 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: i was able to get Rangboom snsa -- which uses code from Russ' 9pfuse -- to work with macfuse 1.7 (on os x 10.4.x). the latest 9pfuse has the patch sqweek sent for xattr; i wonder if that's the problem? it's depressing to see that Finder acts

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse on mac os x

2008-08-06 Thread sqweek
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Jeff Sickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > More depressing that sqweek's change works for OS X 10.4.x but not with the > MacFUSE build for 10.5.x. All I get is: > > % ls ... > FUSE <- unique 0x3 (Getattr) attr

Re: [9fans] float.h

2008-08-06 Thread Greg Comeau
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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

[9fans] sources is back up

2008-08-06 Thread geoff
Sources is back up, reincarnated in a different machine that is easier to expand in several respects. The main fossil was reinitialised from the fossil dump score of early morning August 3rd; so any changes to sources since then are gone. The old sources had about 12GB of local venti arenas; the

Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-06 Thread Rodolfo kix GarcĂ­a
Hi Erik, I try it this morning, but the server don't boot. I cannot say nothing about the problem, because the server is "far far away" and we don't have console. Probably we need change the 9load to include this SATA support. Any help? Thanks Eric, slds. >> i cant see anywhere in sdata.c an

[9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
I'm having some trouble setting up a terminal (which will become a cpu/auth server). I've gotten the 9pccpuf kernel booted, and is running as the user bootes, but even from the server's console, if I type something as simple as "echo hi > /foo" I receive the message: mounted directory forbids c

Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread andrey mirtchovski
/ is indeed mounted without -c. if you want to create a directory in / use /root. see 'nm' for how the namespace is constructed. i believe new directories in / are frowned upon (even if created in /root). i can't find the relevant message in the archives. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Benjamin

Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>i believe new directories in / are frowned upon Understood, though 'bootes' or whoever has superuser-like permissions should still have unlimited abilities, right? Or is this purely a function of the flags to mount the root? On a side-note though, what is the preferred UNIX equivalent of /usr/

Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread Uriel
There is no 'super-user' in Plan 9, bootes is (for the most part) a user like any other, that just happens to be the owner of most kernel file servers. It has no special privileges, in Plan 9 there is nothing like root that lets you ignore file permissions and so on, the kernel applies the same rul

Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> However, permissions are still wrong somewhere, as I can't: > cp /adm/timezone/US_Pacific /adm/timezone/local /adm/timezone files are owned by the user/group 'adm', so if you want to modify them you should add the user you're doing this as to that group. i believe the issue comes from the ins

Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Hi Erik, > > I try it this morning, but the server don't boot. I cannot say nothing > about the problem, because the server is "far far away" and we don't have > console. > > Probably we need change the 9load to include this SATA support. > > Any help? > > Thanks Eric, > > slds. pardon the

Re: [9fans] sources is back up

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Sources is back up, reincarnated in a different machine that is easier > to expand in several respects. The main fossil was reinitialised from > the fossil dump score of early morning August 3rd; so any changes to > sources since then are gone. The old sources had about 12GB of local > venti ar

Re: [9fans] fossil permission checking

2008-08-06 Thread erik quanstrom
>>i believe new directories in / are frowned upon > > Understood, though 'bootes' or whoever has superuser-like permissions should > still have unlimited abilities, right? the concept in plan 9 is called the "host owner" or eve. eve has special abilities on the local machine. there are 31 plac