[9fans] devsegment usage examples

2016-08-31 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi, I'm looking for an usage example of devsegment. I cannot find anything neither in bhro's plan9 nor in 9front. Can anybody share a real usage world example? Giacomo

Re: [9fans] devsegment usage examples

2016-08-31 Thread cinap_lenrek
> Hi, I'm looking for an usage example of devsegment. > > I cannot find anything neither in bhro's plan9 nor in 9front. > > Can anybody share a real usage world example? > > > Giacomo its just creating named segments of some shared memory. segment(3) has an example. read it. on 9front, you can a

Re: [9fans] devsegment usage examples

2016-08-31 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Neat, thanks! I wonder if a similar approach could be used to move some device drivers out of kernel... Btw, I did read the sample in segment(3) but I was looking for a real world example. What I'm trying to understand is not *how* to use devsegment, but *when* to use it. Which problems is it desi

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
Whatever you like is fine. I'm not picky. On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Chris McGee wrote: > Sure, > > I'm looking for plan9 user/enthusiast appropriate medium. Any suggestions? > > Chris > >> On Aug 30, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Eduardo Alvarez >> wrote: >> >> Are you keeping your progess public? I

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread Steven Stallion
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid. >> >> put up or shut up: > ... > Congratulations on your accomplishments! % fn ck { grep $* /n/sources/patch/*/email /n/sources/pat

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread stanley lieber
Steven Stallion wrote: >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid. >>> >>> put up or shut up: >> ... >> Congratulations on your accomplishments! > >% fn ck { grep $* /n/so

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:55:09PM -0500, Steven Stallion wrote: > Perhaps it's better to be known for the occasional masturbatory > session than for being an incorrigible troll. You know we forked the operating system, right? I know it's hard to keep track of things since google reader went down

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:43 AM stanley lieber wrote: > Steven Stallion wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > >>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid. > >>> > >>> put up or shut up: > >> ..

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread stanley lieber
Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:43 AM stanley lieber wrote: > >> Steven Stallion wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier >wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> >>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid. >> >

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-31 Thread Winston Kodogo
Well, the meaning of the word "ilk" has always puzzled me. As in "Sir Robert Pike of that Ilk". But then I'm not Scottish. Or Scotch, whichever is correct. Me, I still lend a fraction of an ear to this group in the increasingly vain hope of learning something. Personally, I don't use Plan9, or eve