Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Rudolf Sykora
> > 2) Reading pwd.c I can see 'char pathname[512]' at the beginning of the > main > > function. Does it mean plan9 paths are thus limited? > > no. fileservers evaludate the path one element at a time. > - erik > But at least it means that the 'pwd' function returns a wrong answer _without_warni

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> > Are these limitations listed in some document? > > I don't believe they are. > > It might bve nice to think there are no arbitary limits in plan9 > as the GNU mantra, however there are not many and personally, > working with remote servers with very long paths, I have never > (knowingly) hit

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
fd2path should probably complain if the buffer is too small. i'm surprised at any actual name longer than 512 (or even 256), not so much for plan 9, but because linux systems still seem to have that tiny TTY limit on the size of an input line, or it did the last time i tried to use the mouse to s

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-14 Thread Rodolfo kix García
I have the room in the Phillipos too. Is cheaper than the Park Hotel with or without the IWP9 offer. On the other hand, probably the Park Hotel is better. > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Noah Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What kind of deal did you guys get at Park hotel? I settled on a >>

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-14 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 14-Oct-08, at 4:43 PM, Rodolfo kix García wrote: I have the room in the Phillipos too. Is cheaper than the Park Hotel with or without the IWP9 offer. On the other hand, probably the Park Hotel is better. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Noah Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What kind o

Re: [9fans] starting 9vx in FreeBSD :Shared object "libthr.so.3" not found

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> Looks like the binary is for FreeBSD ?7.0. And you can't build it for FreeBSD 6 because the architecture of the thread library is different. Time to upgrade anyway, at least for me. Dave Eckhardt

[9fans] starting 9vx in FreeBSD :Shared object "libthr.so.3" not found

2008-10-14 Thread alasdair
Hi, on starting 9vx inside FreeBSD with the command"./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda" I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libthr.so.3" not found, required by "9vx.FreeBSD" I came up with a blank on searches in 9fans lists and on the net generally for a solution. Would welcome

[9fans] Snoopy OS X

2008-10-14 Thread Michaelian Ennis
I was hoping to use snoopy from p9p under OS X. MK fails with: mk: no recipe to make 'Darwin.o' Has anyone out there a patch to make this work? Ian

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-14 Thread Noah Evans
twin single? On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14-Oct-08, at 4:43 PM, Rodolfo kix García wrote: >> >> I have the room in the Phillipos too. Is cheaper than the Park Hotel with >> or without the IWP9 offer. On the other hand, probably the Park Hotel i

Re: [9fans] starting 9vx in FreeBSD :Shared object "libthr.so.3" not found

2008-10-14 Thread Yaroslav
Looks like the binary is for FreeBSD ≥7.0. 2008/10/14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > on starting 9vx inside FreeBSD with the command"./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda" > I get the following error: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libthr.so.3" not found, required by > "9vx.FreeBSD" > > I came up with a

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-14 Thread Noah Evans
What kind of deal did you guys get at Park hotel? I settled on a double twin at the Phillipos for 75 euros. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Jeff Sickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go directly to http://www.amhotels.gr/index_ENG.htm. It's a flash site that > can through browsers off, but there

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Yaroslav
> But at least it means that the 'pwd' function returns a wrong answer > _without_warning_ when the path is longer. I tried it. This is not a nice > thing. Are these limitations listed in some document? The pwd(1) utility has this limitation for simplicity. The getwd(2) function and fd2path(2) sys

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Simon
> Are these limitations listed in some document? I don't believe they are. It might bve nice to think there are no arbitary limits in plan9 as the GNU mantra, however there are not many and personally, working with remote servers with very long paths, I have never (knowingly) hit this limit. Hav

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > i'm surprised at any actual name longer than 512 (or even 256), not so much > for plan 9, but > because linux systems still seem to have that tiny TTY limit on the size of > an input line, err - I seem to recall reading some linu

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-14 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Noah Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of deal did you guys get at Park hotel? I settled on a > double twin at the Phillipos for 75 euros. I can't remember, but whatever the price for a single room was with the IWP9 thing. -- - curiosity sKilled the

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Kernel Panic
erik quanstrom wrote: Are these limitations listed in some document? I don't believe they are. It might bve nice to think there are no arbitary limits in plan9 as the GNU mantra, however there are not many and personally, working with remote servers with very long paths, I have never (kn

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
>But that assumes the shells in question _use_ cannonical mode. most of them use readline, so that might explain it.