Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2012-01-02 Thread David du Colombier
> OK, I'm stumped. Maybe I'm making this more complicated than it has > to be. Posing my question as simply as possible: If plan9port's vac > is used to archive a Linux file system to venti, is there any way to > access that file system in a way that exposes symbolic links, device > nodes, socket

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2012-01-02 Thread David du Colombier
> When I use 9pfuse to mount the file system, I get a little further: > > lrw-rw 1 root root6 Mar 10 2005 video -> > -rw-rw 1 root root3 Mar 10 2005 video10 > > The symbolic links show up as links, but with the null string ("") as > target. The Linux kernel interperets

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2012-01-02 Thread smiley
David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> writes: > OK, I found the problem. At least concerning 9pfuse and symlink. OK, great. So I'm not going crazy, after all. ;) > I've something that work, but it's ugly. Would you care to share? > As supposed, other Unix special files don't seem to be curre

Re: [9fans] p9p vac/vacfs compatibility: uid/gid, ctime, 9P2000.L, 9pserve

2012-01-02 Thread David du Colombier
> Would you care to share? Sure. But beware it's just a quick hack. diff -r 92a579c6549c src/cmd/9pfuse/main.c --- a/src/cmd/9pfuse/main.c Mon Dec 12 16:44:50 2011 -0500 +++ b/src/cmd/9pfuse/main.c Mon Jan 02 19:00:00 2012 +0100 @@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ void fusereadlink(FuseMsg *m) { +

Re: [9fans] KerTeX: e-TeX, CWEB and packaging!

2012-01-02 Thread John Floren
Voting Thierry for #1 poster of 2012 [so far] Looking forward to trying the new release! John On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:02 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > A supplementary note for Plan9 users before reproducing the announce. > > I was testing the new version on Plan9 when the infamous "Disk full" > er

Re: [9fans] KerTeX: e-TeX, CWEB and packaging!

2012-01-02 Thread David Leimbach
+1 On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, John Floren wrote: > Voting Thierry for #1 poster of 2012 [so far] > > Looking forward to trying the new release! > > > John > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:02 PM, wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A supplementary note for Plan9 users before reproducing the announce. >