Re: [9fans] Happy New Year ! :)

2009-01-01 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
Run! Its a mutant three-eared Glenda! ;-) Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?

2009-01-01 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:31 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > You have to ensure that I can't dial it and authenticate with > > factotum. It's a mess!) > > how would that attack work? > > supposing that you have a fully jailed process. if it has a connection > to the fileserver, which does do se

[9fans] ndb database= question.

2009-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
there are a couple of cases where the database= lines in ndb files don't appear to me to work as one would expect. ndbsearch(2) searches the original file and all the files in the database= lines. however ndbparse(2) opens only the named file; ndbreopen(2) only reopens the named file. so, e.g.,

[9fans] ndb/requery

2009-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
this is otherwise known as how to shove a round peg in a square hole. but the inefficency doesn't much matter. i have an ancient unix program called tel. i wrote it in 1988 so it has no relation to tel(1). tel is a simple address book. recently it's been abused to store account information tha

Re: [9fans] sendfd() on native Plan 9?

2009-01-01 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:53:33PM -0800, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:31 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > You have to ensure that I can't dial it and authenticate with > > > factotum. It's a mess!) > > > > how would that attack work? > > > > supposing that you have a f

[9fans] (no subject)

2009-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
Suject: scuzz(8) man bug man -P, man or the magicman html versions all have a similar bug. the .IR macro appends a a spurious ".}f". SEE ALSO sd(3) Small Computer System Interface - 2 (X3T9.2/86-109), .}f shortening the italic portion by 4 characters makes the problem g

[9fans] grap(1) man bug; of little importance

2009-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
The EXAMPLES section of `man 1 grap' contains an "extra paste" error: `.G1' marks the start of a graph description and `.G2' the end -- everything in the middle has been re-pasted after the `.G2'. In short: remove lines grap(1):138 through grap(1):150 ak

Re: [9fans] ndb database= question.

2009-01-01 Thread lucio
> ndbsearch(2) searches the original file and all the files in > the database= lines. however ndbparse(2) opens only the > named file; ndbreopen(2) only reopens the named file. It may be that you want to limit the search to a single database element and then there is no way to do it. The databas

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2009-01-01 Thread lucio
> lucio also found that i had absolutely no idea what i was > doing with hbas that support Hsss (staggered spinup), at least for > ich9m-based thinkpads. Flattering as this is, I do not recall such a thing. I made only an insignificant contribution regarding flash, if my memory isn't too muddled.

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2009-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jan 1 22:47:59 EST 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > lucio also found that i had absolutely no idea what i was > > doing with hbas that support Hsss (staggered spinup), at least for > > ich9m-based thinkpads. > > Flattering as this is, I do not recall such a thing. I made only an > in

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2009-01-01 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
I think you got the names mixed up, I had problems with the sata and the 82567 on my thinkpad. :) Thanks, Lucho On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Jan 1 22:47:59 EST 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> > lucio also found that i had absolutely no idea what i was >

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2009-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
> I think you got the names mixed up, I had problems with the sata and > the 82567 on my thinkpad. :) but unless i've really gone mad, the staggered spinup was the sata and the flash/nvram was the 82567. - erik

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2009-01-01 Thread lucio
> I think you got the names mixed up, I had problems with the sata and > the 82567 on my thinkpad. :) Yes, even I get us mixed up. I'm glad you don't seem to, although I am rather jealous that in your much shorter relationship with Plan 9, you have achieved infinitely more. :-) ++L