Re: [9fans] alternative port with webfs?

2009-03-15 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Mathieu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on something that will use http requests so I figured using > webfs instead of reinventing the wheel might be a good idea, even though > I've been hinted on #plan9 that it's far from perfect. > My first try was to duplicate

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > > Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students, > teachers and, or researchers uses Plan9 and, or Inferno in the offices, > homes and, or cafes and for what? > > The Plan9 project started in 1980, took around

Re: [9fans] auto reconnect for cpu servers

2009-05-12 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > > there is also recover (gorka should know where the > source is these days) but that requires building a > custom kernel to connect through it, and i'm not > sure how well that particular setup works. > The source for recover is in my contrib di

Re: [9fans] new usb implementation

2009-05-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote: > Is this news mean we can hotplug the usb mouse and keyboard? > yes. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] new usb implementation

2009-06-08 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > I think someone managed to boot from usb, but I´m not sure. > In any case, the change means that usb is ready at boot(8) time > if usbd is compiled in the kernel. Booting from usb requires 9load > loading a kernel from usb. I don´t kn

Re: [9fans] new usb implementation

2009-06-08 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Formatting the USB drive is tricky though. > > what do you mean by formatting?  if you mean that usb/disk > doesn't do partitions, you can use sdloop or partfs to get around > that.  it wouldn't be too hard to extend usbfat: to automagicly >

Re: [9fans] nemo's book - where is it currently hosted?

2009-07-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:19 PM, james toy wrote: > > I suspect lsub will be back up very shortly.  If you cannot wait until > then feel free to mail me off list and I will send you a copy. > > Sorry for this. The people from the University have been doing some maintenance on the power lines week

Re: [9fans] new usb stack and implicit timeouts

2009-07-20 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:46 PM, wrote: >> http://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb6.htm#SetupPacket >> > > IIRC, I think the host controller is responsible for timing out > requests sent to the device (I refer to setup packets),

Re: [9fans] vmware snarf problem

2009-07-30 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM, roger peppe wrote: > actually, i lied when i said that nothing ever comes > out of the snarf buffer. if i copy some text externally > (inside mac os), then i get it, just once, inside plan 9/vmware. > reading it seems to clear it. > Isn't this related to the soft

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Uriel wrote: > Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command > that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an > error when writing to stdout it would ignore it and continue reading > stdin? It is trivial to do it in C,

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:14 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Do we stick with that file format forever? is it perfect and never to >> be changed? > > would it be fair to ask a the same question from a little > different perspective? > > could someone explain what the disadvantages and problems > with

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: >> could someone explain what the disadvantages and problems >> with 9fat are?  i'm asking out of ignorance, since 9fat hasn't >> been a problem for me. >> > > That it is too complicated

Re: [9fans] lowest valid stack address

2009-09-02 Thread Gorka Guardiola
2009/9/2 Andrés Domínguez : > 2009/9/2 erik quanstrom : >> >> aside: from the overcommit vm discussion. >> in http://9fans.net/archive/2000/06/634 rob >> says that plan 9 doesn't overcommit vm. >> what's the history here? > > Exactly two years ago you started a thread about > memory overcommit. If

Re: [9fans] clarification on man 9p

2009-10-03 Thread Gorka Guardiola
There is a version that is. Its source is with the library. - Curiosity sKilled the cat G. On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Russ Cox wrote: "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs)

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM, ron minnich wrote: > oh yeah, I assume the first step to hacking these is cracking them open? > > Or is there a way via the usb port to get serial console (does not > seem so from block diagram) > Mechiel told me there was a way to get a serial out of the usb conn

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-25 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> I thought it was just wonderful, and noticed similar reactions from >> everyone else. It was a very fine meeting. > Yes, I had a lot of fun too!!. > could somone post a quick summary of the plan9 extra-cirricular > activities, e.g. was shee

Re: [9fans] automatic page sharing

2009-10-30 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:25:59 +0100 > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Pardon if this has come up before, but what about the greatly > increased time taken to launch a shared-lib program?  That's quite Not that much if your loaded caches the

Re: [9fans] Replace text in acme window with the plumber

2009-11-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Anthony Sorace > a lot of work for no obvious reason. > > Not moving the pointer would be a reason... -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug

2009-12-14 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > Ours is finally in Spain, at customs. > > Knowing our bureaucracy, it may still take a week or two to get my hands on > it. > There is also a half written untried driver for the serial usb waiting for it to arrive to be finished.

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug

2009-12-15 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:15 AM, wrote: >> There is also a half written untried driver for the serial usb waiting >> for it to arrive >> to be finished. > > Which is the serial USB?  The console on my plug works perfectly well, > I thought that was the purpose? > > > > Does it?. I mean the PC fr

Re: [9fans] libthread API

2010-01-08 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, anonymous wrote: > Why libthread has threadcreate instead of something like fork? With Preemptive vs cooperative. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-14 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Purple_Q wrote: > 1. mount a cd, usb stick, or another local filesystem. > The mount command is nothing like what i'm used to on linux or BSD, > and the /mnt folder is kind of confusing. How can I mount/ummount > things and approx. where do they end up? If you ar

Re: [9fans] vgaradeon (was Re: Problem of last update?)

2010-01-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > > My long-term goal is to eliminate all the vga drivers but vgavesa, > which make up about 10% of the pc kernel port by line count.  This may > not be possible due to currently-working graphics cards with broken > vesa bioses nor desirable because the nat

Re: [9fans] Speed of 9pfuse on Linux

2010-02-10 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Maybe yes, maybe no. What is the latency to your file server?. http://lsub.org/ls/export/opiwp9.pdf http://lsub.org/ls/export/opiwp9tlk.pdf -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Speed of 9pfuse on Linux

2010-02-10 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Perhaps the time to talk about QTDECENT is at hand? > I feel like it is Groundhog Day lately when I read the list. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Binary format

2010-02-17 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > just curious: which binfmt does Plan9 use ? > How are share libraries handled (if they exist at all) ? a.out(6) no shared libraries. > > Inspired by recent discussions @ gentoo-user, I'm thinking a bit > how an simple and e

Re: [9fans] plan9 on qemu and 9vx

2010-03-12 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:53 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Unless there's some compelling reason to use qemu (I can't think of > one) Debugging the kernel. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Accessing Mac OS Extended drives

2014-03-07 Thread Gorka Guardiola
This would probably make for a nice GSoC project (even if, for the purposes of the project is a read only, without all the bells and whistles, version of HFS+). It is documented for example here: http://dubeiko.com/development/FileSystems/HFSPLUS/tn1150.html#BTrees On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:54 AM,

Re: [9fans] usb serial driver

2014-03-16 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Isn't it a variant of the version (almost) supported? There were sone issues at fast speed, but I believe it is there in the distro. G. > On Mar 16, 2014, at 6:40 AM, arisawa wrote: > > Hello, > > Anyone has a driver for FT232R or PL2303HX? > Or working on those drivers? > > Kenji Arisawa >

Re: [9fans] usb serial driver

2014-03-17 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, arisawa wrote: > Thank you Gorka, > > I made a mistake. > The usage of 9front is different from that of Bell-labs. > It seems FT232R is OK, but PL2303HX has a problem. > > term% cat /lib/ndb/consoledb > group=sys Yes, I see. FTDI is better supported, because I ha

Re: [9fans] usb/serial control open

2014-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:09 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > it seems odd to me that opening the ctl file would > reset some serial parameters. wouldn't it be better > to leave them alone? > What do you return on read if you don´t know the state? For some devices if you don´t set the state, you have

Re: [9fans] usb/serial control open

2014-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> > so if i do this > > echo l7>/dev/eiaU6/eiaUctl > cat /dev/eiaU6/eiaUctl > > that's two opens, isn't it? then isn't l reset to 8 by the second > open? > It has been a while and I don´t have the code at hand now, but once it is at a known state, it shouldn´t set it again, that i

Re: [9fans] usb/serial control open

2014-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> What do you return on read if you don´t know the state? > For some devices if you don´t set the state, you have no idea. > You can do it in read, but it seemed more intuitive in open at the > time, (and you don´t > set the state on every read). > What I meant, is if you write then read, the read

Re: [9fans] usb/serial control open

2014-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: > > if(!setonce){ > setonce = 1; > serialctl(p, "l8 i1"); /* default line parameters */ > } And setonce needs to live in the interface, and it needs to be locked, etc. G.

Re: [9fans] usb/serial control open

2014-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
>> >> And setonce needs to live in the interface, and it needs to be locked, etc. > > another idea: since this is only needed by some hardware. and then only in > init. > why not make it the responsibility of such hardware to do this in the init > fn. then the problem can be addressed without an

Re: [9fans] more serial questions

2014-03-25 Thread Gorka Guardiola
I didn't add that, your guess is as good as mine. G. > On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i'm just asking questions, because i don't have the experience the author > clearly has. > > i'm looking at this comment > >/* > * if we encounter a long run of contin

Re: [9fans] New /prog idea

2014-05-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
There was a proc box in the original Plan B of which there were different version in the descendants (for files too) and which permitted things similar to what you want. See http://lsub.org/ls/export/man.1e.ps (page 31) and http://lsub.org/ls/export/ubiterm.icps05.pdf Later, Andrey and Ron did so

Re: [9fans] usb disk - no partitions?

2015-07-21 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Last time I looked at it did not. You would use some other fs (partfs, for example) for that. G. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > the usb disk driver does not seem to support partitions, > Am I doing somthing wrong, or is that just how it is? > > e.g. > > cherry% l

Re: [9fans] usb serial on raspberry pi (again)

2016-12-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > Oops, pressed the wrong button - that reply was intended for > Steve Simon and not the whole of 9fans. Oh well, if anybody > else wants to rummage through the usbdwc driver too, they > are welcome. > Thanks, because I

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 64-bit?

2018-12-29 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Is it nix you are asking about? http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 13:44 Mayuresh Kathe I can't remember the name of the person, but he used to work for a > European research lab and had made a 64-bit version of an operating > system derived from Plan 9. That operating system had s

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 64-bit?

2018-12-29 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Not that I know of. People moved on to other projects afaik. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 14:09 Mayuresh Kathe Yes, that's the one, thanks for that pointer Gorka, many thanks indeed. > Anyone still working on "Nix Mark IV"? > > On 2018-12-29 06:26 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: >

[9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
I was trying to echo the string '-n' and couldn't. This is because -n doesn't use ARGBEGIN. This command results in: echo -- -n -- -n I ended up doing echo a-n|sed s/a// Do I send the patch, do you consider this a bug?. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
2008/3/26 Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > echo -n -n' > ' {echo -n -n; echo} But again, why not echo -- -n ? -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Anthony Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The UNIX Programming Environment, p.78 > Plan 9 is not UNIX. The difference in code is: < < if(argc > 1) < if(strcmp(argv[1], "--") == 0){ < argv++; < argc-

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > echo -- -n > > because we do gnot like that sort of stuff. > > rm -- -r whynot rm: -r: '-r' file does not exist rm: whaynot: 'whaynot' file does not exist -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > …At this point the Plan 9 realized history repeating itself, and > although she did not want to offend either, she decided it was better > to offend the impatient youth rather than subject all her suitors to > yet ano

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:55 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --? so adding -- special case code doesn't really solve any problems. echo -- --? -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but > echo -n '-n > ' > is a hack. yes so is any of the other solutions, each with its own constraints. > with a different implementation it might as well > complaint that ' > ' is an invalid flag. no.

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-03-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Equivalently (tried but not much, cleaner). #include #include void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int nflag, argi; int i, len; char *buf, *p; nflag = 0; argi = 0; for(i = 1; i < argc; i++){ if(argv[i][0] != '-' )

Re: [9fans] Eeepc

2008-03-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> > Either the BIOS is not exposing the USB stick as a disk, or the 9load > BIOS device code isn't searching correctly. I'm going to give it a > r This is easy to see. Install a pbs on it and see if it gets loaded and run. If it is not, the BIOS does not see it. Take a look at the configuratio

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

2008-04-03 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Further, I added these patches to echo: > abcdefghijklmnopqv > > v works as on cat. All other switches, see the texinfo. > How are you going to call it smacmeecho ?. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:34 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > send the mac to me. I will fix it as I fixed Gorka's mac. > You are always a blessing :-). -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

2008-04-22 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had the same problem time ago and had to lower the mtu by hand. > Perhaps detecting too many retransmissions of the same packet could be > considered a hint > of this problem and try by reducing at least on

[9fans] chanfree...

2008-04-30 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Is there a reason why chanfree requires the channel to exist (instead of accepting a nil like free)?. THX. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] network problem

2008-05-08 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if you're going to pxe boot, you should generally be using bootf=9load. > > sorry, "bootf=/386/9load". > you mean 9pxeload ? -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] ilock funny?

2008-05-29 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:34 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in this situation there are 128 kernel procs that all > increment the same counter with some code > that looks like so: > > void > incref(void) > { >ilock(&somelock); >someval++; >iunlock(&somelock)

Re: [9fans] % $stem & $target in mk

2008-05-29 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:32 PM, matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > public_html/%.html: `{cpp -M src/%.html } > makepage src/$stem.html > $target > > > but mk doesn't expand the % in `{} > > Any magic I missed before hacking & slashing /sys/src/cmd/mk ? > I would have expected $stem in there to

Re: [9fans] ilock funny?

2008-05-29 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My guess is that you have the lock uninitialized (key is not what it should > be), > so key has a bogus value and that is where your problems start. > Zeroing the lock before using it should do the tr

Re: [9fans] 9vx

2008-06-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works impressively well here. Even snarf/paste between host and 9vx is > working. > > Did only the 9 kernel need modifications or did the applications > binaries need to be recompiled as well? > > --vs > > 9vx require

Re: [9fans] Egg and chicken..

2008-07-25 Thread Gorka Guardiola
If you have a PXE able pc, that may be very useful for debugging. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Acme without Flamage

2008-08-20 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:42 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing I'd miss in Acme vs emacs then, most likely, for lisp-like > languages is paren-matching. > And I'd miss it dearly. > > Double click on the paren selects the area enclosed by the matching paren. --

Re: [9fans] Favorite sam command language idioms?

2008-08-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have some favorite sam command language idioms, tips, > tricks, etc.? > > You probably want this: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/doc/sam-refcard.pdf -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] test command

2008-09-10 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Juan Céspedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm confused, but what Kenji said is that: > >> "test" command of plan 9 has a operator "older", the usage is: >>test f -older t >> where f is a file and t is a time. > > If f is a file ant t is a *time*, you

Re: [9fans] trace device paper from aki&john&ron now available

2008-09-18 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:15 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was going into greece but I am not going and they aren't either so: > /n/sources/contrib/rminnich/tracepaper/trace.ps > > The modified 8l described in the paper is also in that directory. If > you want the trace dev let

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:34 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any way to contact or get reservation information for the > the park hotel, recommended by the iwp9 website, via email > or over the web? neither method has worked for me. > no answer to the email, and the web si

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] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?

2008-10-20 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Chris Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm blind, and I use Unix from the text console. I'm interested in > trying out Plan 9. It appears to be a very clean system. Are there any > blind people in the Plan 9 community? If so, I am very intereste

Re: [9fans] sam & filenames containing whitespace

2008-10-22 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edit > ,>cat > 'a b' > > Clunky but so be it. Sam comes from a system where spaces in > file names made no sense. > > -rob > Another solution is to use trfs(4) http://planb.lsub.org/magic/man2html/4/trfs -- - curiosity sKil

Re: [9fans] Query on Venti access

2008-10-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to plan9 and venti. All your help is greatly appreciated. > I am doing a project and my professor suggested that I use venti as a > back end server. > > Could any you please let me know whether it is possible to ac

Re: [9fans] Volos

2008-10-30 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I hope we get lots of pictures from all of those at Volos! > > yes please and post them in realtime if at all possible. > > > http://picasaweb.google.com/paurea/Volos103008803AM -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-11 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must have missed something. what dav server? > We have one for inferno in the octopus. We presented/talked about it in IWP9 at Volos. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-12 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Brantley Coile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That explains why IBM's MVS didn't have locking at all. One would conclude > from that fact that locking isn't required to do even serious business > applications. > I don't follow your reasoning. Saying fcntl locking is

Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget

2008-11-14 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Dave Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hget is similar to almost all plan 9 programs >> and (not surprisingly) different from many >> modern unix programs in that, by default, >> it writes to standard output. > > This may seem idiosyncratic, but it has a big b

Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]

2008-11-20 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Giacomo Tesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm completely new to Functional Languages (actually I'm not understanding > whether they are useful in real world, or just to enance ones mind). > > But I'm studing Haskell, and I saw that it was ported to Plan 9. > > With

[9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Say I have a couple of structs like: typedef struct A A; typedef struct B B; struct A { int a1; int a2; }; struct B { A; int b1; int b2; }; Now I want to declare a variable of kind B with parts initialized. Is there anyway to initialize the A inside the B?. I have tri

Re: [9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say I have a couple of structs like: > > typedef struct A A; > typedef struct B B; > > struct A > { > int a1; > int a2; > }; > > struct B > { > A; > int

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jonas Amoson wrote: > it is quite hard to mistype on it... > yes, it is *also* hard to mistype on it. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] 'cd' into non-existent directory?

2009-02-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Pavel Klinkovsky wrote: > Hello all, > > it seems I missed something but... > > If I enter the /n directory, I can make 'cd' command into non-existent > (not mounted) 'directory' (or filesystem) successfully. > > % cd /n > % ls > 9 > 9fat > ... > % cd blahblah > %

Re: [9fans] new contest

2009-02-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:42 PM, ron minnich wrote: > > Beat that. > > ron > > nm shows that printf gets changed for puts, so after taking everything out: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf(¨hello darkness¨); } //no includes... no defines, nothing I am paranoid about libc now g

Re: [9fans] Jim McKie

2020-06-24 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Very sad news. He will be sorely missed. On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 02:36 Charles Forsyth wrote: > I am sorry to say that Jim McKie (jmk) died suddenly on 16 June. > https://www.ippolitofuneralhomes.com/obituaries/James-B-McKie?obId=15111702&fbclid=IwAR3d7aHZXEOhYz-ciOrQPh-W1eMw-_8MHiCUdeKOxzLBEI6VGH

Re: [9fans] Sad news.

2020-09-28 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Yes, very sad. Condolences to the family. On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 20:33 Dan Cross wrote: > I just got word that Andrey has passed away. :-( > > I'm sorry, I don't have any further details right now, but wanted to let > folks know. > > - Dan C. > --

Re: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

2021-03-23 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Really great work. Thanks for putting in the time to make this possible. G. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:07 PM wrote: > We are thrilled to announce that Nokia has transferred the copyright of > Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation. This transfer applies to all of the > Plan 9 from Bell Labs code, from

Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

2021-08-19 Thread Gorka Guardiola
I am guessing: https://github.com/google/codesearch/blob/master/cmd/csearch/csearch.go On Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 13:44 Maurizio Boriani wrote: > > Rob Pike writes: > > > % cat bin/cf > > #!/bin/sh > > > > csearch -n -f '\.go$' '^func (\([^)]+\) )?'$1'\(' > > thanks a lot! But... what's csearch? >

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
¿Isn't that fd2path, strcat and open? Or am I misunderstanding something? On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 21:51 ron minnich wrote: > One of the folks I worked with, when we pulled a big chunk of plan 9 into > akaros, commented that he had implemented openat on akaros. > > I don't want this to turn into a d

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
I mean, if you want a new syscall jus copy or call the implementation of these. On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 22:12 Gorka Guardiola wrote: > ¿Isn't that fd2path, strcat and open? > Or am I misunderstanding something? > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 21:51 ron minnich wrote: > >> One

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Hmm sorry. Now I see what you want. Not to rewalk. You can use the chan of the dirfd and walk just the remainder cloning it and creating a new one. That way the openat provides the guarantees you want. On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 22:15 Gorka Guardiola wrote: > I mean, if you want a new syscall

Re: [9fans] openat()

2024-04-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 23:49 Alyssa M via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > Are you thinking narrowly about "What changes to the Plan 9 kernel would > you make to emulate the Linux openat() system call" or more generally about > "How would you design a facility for plan 9 that provides an equivalent

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

2010-04-28 Thread Gorka Guardiola
You can use keys as mouse buttons. I still prefer a separate mouse but sometimes it is not an option. - Curiosity sKilled the cat G. On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:47 PM, "Gary V. Vaughan" wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 22:05, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:40, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrot

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-28 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:05 PM, EBo wrote: > Also, where can i find out more info about op and Tget? > http://lsub.org/ls/export/opiwp9.pdf http://lsub.org/ls/export/opiwp9tlk.pdf -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] configure a plan9 cpu+file+auth server

2010-05-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, ruel hernandez wrote: > I made a new installation of plan9 at work, now i can use plan9 at > home > and at work. :) After a few days of using the system and reading some > papers from the internet, i decided to turn it into a plan9 cpu+file > +auth server. > So, i

Re: [9fans] hoc output format

2010-05-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > echo 1 2 | hoc -e '{while(read(x) != 0)y += x' ^ $nl ^ ' print y, "\n"}' >> >> Maybe it makes a sense to add in hoc(1) expression delimiter like a ';'? > > i don't use hoc very often.  i tend to use acid.  (!) > this is because hoc won't

Re: [9fans] arm ports update

2010-05-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
In the sheeva you can access the Jtag through the usb port... - Curiosity sKilled the cat G. On May 13, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: thank you! the two guruplugs i had ordered arrived today. i was disappoint to find that i'll need to order the JTAG board befo

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-15 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:29 PM, John Floren wrote: > I'm going to be doing some work with 9P and high-latency links this > summer and fall. I need to be able to test things over a high-latency > network, but since I may be modifying the kernel, running stuff on > e.g. mordor is not the best opti

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-15 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:07 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Last time I needed something similar, I just run a modified iostats. > > how does iostats add latency? > hence the modified. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Buying a Guru Plug. Do I want/need the JTAG module too?

2010-09-10 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Lalonde wrote: > I'd like to run it as a household control server, notwithstanding various > teething pains/devices.  If I fail too badly, I can probably coerce Linux to > do what I need. > Paul > > -- Is this hardware you are talking about?. In the Sheeva y

Re: [9fans] alt and chanfree

2010-09-14 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Mathieu Lonjaret wrote: > > isn't that what chanclose()/chanclosing() is for? > > - erik > > Not at all. Chanclose and chanclosing are to be used while the channel still exists. A closed channel is not a freed channel. Close/closing are useful for synchronizing th

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Schedule?

2010-10-09 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> SOP for getting stuff across the border in this neck of the woods is the > high-speed midnight stealth-kayak run from Victoria to Port Washington. I am not engaging in this kind of conversation until i am safely back in Spain. Got enough "random security checks" as it is... G.

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Schedule?

2010-10-09 Thread Gorka Guardiola
> According to my last 5/7 airport trips (none international), I'm a rather > random person, too. Its more fun with a piece of steel in your knee... Beeps in the hand detector and you get all kinds of interesting reactions...

Re: [9fans] JTAG

2010-10-26 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:28 PM, EBo wrote: > > I just ran into the following FAQ and info that might be of help: > > a JTAG FAQ: http://hri.sourceforge.net/tools/jtag_faq_org.html > > interesting detail: > > TAG specification is in Std IEEE 1149.1 (costs about $100). I don't > have it. Please sea

Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk

2010-10-27 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: >>Sorry that wing-commander can't package it for today. > > sorry old boy, it wasn't LMF: at first we thought it was a wizard wheeze, but > one of the sprogs had a prang with the bally old semantics and the other > brass hats ordered it bac

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