On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:16:35 +0200
Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> could anybody tell me what's the meaning of '--' in
>
> grep -n $flags -- $1 *.[Cbchm] /dev/null
'--' tells the Plan 9 program argument parser to stop looking for
options. See arg(2).
GNU getopt has the same feature.
Robert Ransom
t; > wow. That's crazy of the hg guys but I guess I understand.
>
> If memory serves, it wasn't done willingly. There were performance
> problems that the C was used to alleviate.
It also doesn't require recompiling/relinking Python on the systems
Python and Mercurial are usually used on. (They support dynamic
loading of shared libraries.)
Robert Ransom
ment
list, typically around 409,600 bytes. The kernel constant
TSTKSIZ controls this.
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but not nearly as
bad as in VBox.
This is clearly a VBox bug, as there were reports in the VBox forums
and/or bug tracker that booting OpenSolaris was horribly slow as well.
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8.0 lets you cat the raw data of a directory, and I would
expect the other free BSDs to have that misfeature, too.
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presented to clients of the FS in a textual format, but that would
encourage, if not require, far more parsing in the system, and that is
bad both for performance and for security.
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:53:19 -0700
Bakul Shah wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2011, at 9:39 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> > On Sun Apr 24 23:59:37 EDT 2011, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote:
> >>> i take it back. i'd forgotten how quirky unix is these days. >
> >> here's the solution. not rc's fault. recomp
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:40:42 +0200
cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote:
> where does plan9 fail to work? can it start the kernel?
> we use a different bootloader so i would suspect a 9load
> problem...
>
> can you make a screenshot?
He attached one to his original message.
Robert Ransom
On 2012-04-25, andy zerger wrote:
> Usually I am all about the written word, but the chart made chording
> significantly easier to integrate, brain-wise .. just to screw around I
> made a nroff document about it, my first ever .. (what a pain in the .. to
> make table like data, couldn't find a ta
