[9fans] now a usb question

2021-01-15 Thread Steve Simon
sorry to keep asking, a couple of years ago you gave me a technique for stopping part of usb and then restarting it with debug turned on (done from a usb keyboard). i have a new compact keyboard from ebay but it is not seen by plan9, and not listed in usb/probe; though it does work with MacOS

[9fans] cfs

2021-01-20 Thread Steve Simon
Hi all, I am playing with cfs(4). It works nicely dialing to my fileserver but fails if I try to use the existing /srv/boot channel. failed with /srv/boot: sceolan% 5.out -d -n -F /srv/boot -f $cfs -S /n/cache <-client: Tversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' ->se

Re: [9fans] authoritative source for u9fs?

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Simon
maybe i have missed something but i don’t think u9fs changed much. i added a fix, years ago, adding frogs for some of the weird stuff osx does to filenames. in my world it has been completely replaced by sshfs. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:/

[9fans] pi3 b+ and 5ghz wifi

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
hi, does the pi3 b+ support 5ghz wifi? i have a feeling it doesn’t but i cannot find a message in 8fans passim which states one way of the other, i understand it will probably be no quicker but i am seeing miserable performance from wifi at the moment which i am fairly sure is due to my neigh

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace write

Re: [9fans] Re: GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-08 Thread Steve Simon
there was a native plan9 dis interpreter that would run simple command line applications. on Andrey’s website i think. -Steve On 8 Feb 2021, at 8:49 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: "Ethan Gardener" writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 7:16 AM, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wro

[9fans] tbl page width

2021-02-09 Thread Steve Simon
hi, anyone any ideas how to inform tbl that i am using wide paper - well A4 landscape. i have tried .pl and the LL number register which tells the ms macros but tbl does’t appear to pick up this info. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.t

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
FWIW I recently extracted ssh/sshfs/libsec from 9front and applied them to richard miller's raspberry pi image. This was not too hard but the changes did extend further than I first expected. I could braindump what I did and it would form (I think) a very useful diff. Richard millers image is not

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
> How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? I too am interested in supporting plan9 in any form I can. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-Mf8d4170c614f10a8bb00470f Delivery opt

Re: [9fans] 2c/2l make sense, but why 1c/1l?

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
I don't believe a 68000 compiler was ever released by the labs but there may have been one - some blit terminals had 68000s (and maybe gnots?) so its plausable. There was a port of the plan9 compilers to the VAX but I think its sourcecode was lost (jmk found an executable some years). -Steve ---

[9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
hi, the senerio - i have a plan9 terminal, a mac laptop. the laptop connects to a vpn. i write in go, and thus far i use sshfs to mount the mac’s filesystem and edit my code. i build and run the code on the mac. i thought i could use git9 via sshnet to work natively on plan9 most of this is f

Re: [9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
thanks all for the suggestions. digging through the source of sshnet.c and the go net library i think i understand. the plan9 runtime library assumes, and insists the string returned from /net/cs contains a valid ip address. the code in sshnet which serves a /net/cs does a local ndb lookup, a

[9fans] git9 to tradational interface wrapper for go

2021-02-28 Thread Steve Simon
Hi all, Anyone made any progress writing a wrapper script, like djc's /rc/bin/git, for ori's git9? It may seem peverse to replicate Linus's interface (which I don't like), but the go compiler suite expects this interface, so rather than trying to hack go this seems the path of least resistance.

Re: [9fans] Olimex: these guys are keen electronic engineers.

2021-03-01 Thread Steve Simon
FWIW I wrote an embedded system on a small SOC arm (Atmel sam4e) a couple of years ago (this is a 128Kbyte/100Mhz class machine). I ported Russ's libtask to it. I extended it a bit with a command line interface for debug and added timeouts but I ended up with a delightful development environment,

[9fans] p9f email address

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Simon
hi is there an email address to contact p9f directly? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta6a7f3df36695764-M37542a3e3d005c764b8773fe Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-28 Thread Steve Simon
I am running a PI4 as my file/auth/cpu server. I planned to use an external ssd on a usb3 but this has stalled as I cannot get the 9front xhci driver to work in richard's kernel. It is probably not a big issue, and works fine (abet slowly) over USB2. until last year I still had a dual Atom machin

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi400 Ethernet

2021-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi Brian, pi4 ether worked out of the box for me with richards kernel, i am running a kernel from Christmas. sadly i have had problems with usb3 which is on my todo list - usb2 devices work fine as do usb3 devices in usb2 sockets. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fan

Re: [9fans] sam -d for DOS (FreeDOS)?

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
I do think I build the backend of sam on MSDOS back in the day, it was most probably the 1st edition plan9 code which was released as a seperate package (with X11 libraries). (still kicking around on netlib: http://www.netlib.org/research/) It require some porting effort but I am pretty sure I di

Re: [9fans] Miller's 9pi image (rpi4) problems

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
I must appologise, though I sent a reply at the time, an out of date x509 certificate meant the email never reached my ISP. What I tried to say was... > I wonder if the abaco problem you are seeing is the global move to > stronger TLS algorithms. I have backported libcrypt from 9front which > wa

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-25 Thread Steve Simon
I think there where two reported issues with fossil. On was a bug in ephermerial shapshots which could cause it to crash, this was fixed about 10 years ago but did exist for an embarassingly long time. The other was a design decision rather than a bug which was not well communicated. Fossil was d

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-19 Thread Steve Simon
my cpu for windows was always incomplete, but good enough that i never finished it properly. for posix i just use sftpfs or now cinap’s sshftp to import the filesystem from the posix box as /n/fred and run sam locally (i am a samista rather than an acmeite) i cannot run stuff remotely but i

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-21 Thread Steve Simon
i wrote a cpu like client/server for windows (called dos). my code and test environment lived on a microsoft smb server. i ran cifs(1) to get access to this from plan9 and sam. dos(1) allowed me to start an rc(1) running on win32 in the same directory as my current directory on plan9. it als

Re: [9fans] Four numbers in /lib/sky/here

2021-07-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i suspect rob or ken would be the ones to ask, maybe something to do with some private flight planning or astronomy tool? -Steve On 27 Jul 2021, at 7:13 pm, Dan Cross wrote:  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:53 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: > There are a few other things which also use that file (

Re: [9fans] nfs timeouts

2021-08-09 Thread Steve Simon
hi i am afraid there are long standing issues in nfs(4). i had problems years ago using it to read image files from a pluto video disk store. from memory the issue was when doing a directory scan of the pluto it would take so long nfs(4) would timeout, and this was not gracefully handled proper

Re: [9fans] How to setup wifi on raspberry pi 4

2021-08-11 Thread Steve Simon
if the second raspberry pi is *not* running plan9 sshnet allows you to use its network interfaces (via ssh) for tcp connections. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3464a8c7bad3062a-M6fb3318c9ffecf7d59c88c82 Deliv

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

2021-08-20 Thread Steve Simon
I wrote a bit of lex to extract features from c code. being lex it is incomplete to say the least but i found it good enough. my code used to run every night passed a list of files to parse, and wrote an idenifier, comment, function, #define etc database (2 text files) which i could grep thro

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
i will bite i tried and faild to get cinap’s historic synergy client to work with a current synergy server on windows/linux/osx etc. the biggest pain is the wireshark disector is buggy and there is no real documentation for the protocol. not really selling it am i? -Steve --

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
i was going to mention barrier but couldn’t remember it’s name. as far as the plan9 code goes they should both work - the only difference being the initial handshake message. current synergy supports many new features but plan9 is not interested. the problem is really the lack of documentatio

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Simon
mouse sharing is not end, there is also cut and paste integration - relatively easy but not to be forgotten. i think you could also play some fun tricks with drag and drop on other os’s passing a (modified) path to the plumber (/n/remote-host/file-path). finally plumbing a url on plan9 could

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Steve Simon
pretty much the only major change to sam since 87 was (i believe) the migration from ASCII (on Unix v10 and p9 Ed1) to utf-8. if you are not seeing unicode characters it is most probably because you don’t have a font with the appropriate glyphs. -Steve ---

Re: [9fans] Autoexpand in sam

2021-09-26 Thread Steve Simon
i would use ,|spell which replaces the current window with sam’s output, then, having taken note of the errors, type u to undo and fix the mistakes. this is just personal choice of course. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/g

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
thought experiment: imagine someone was commenting on the 9front mailing list how 9front was not worth bothering with and how the OP should use OSX. that would make the 9front people a little frustrated. > i don't know what aspect exactly of > "classic" computing motivates you > to recommend

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-17 Thread Steve Simon
li looks like you are not running ndb/dns. you need to start this before webfs, and then start abaco after that. sadly the web has moved on a but since abaco was written - it used to render most pages quite well. These days its lack of javascript is more and more of a problem. -Steve On 17 J

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
you need ip/ipconfig ndb/cs ndb/dns webfs abaco the ipconfig call may need a -R if you want to use dhcp rather than having a static ip from ndb. nsd/cs will set the sysname based on matching the mac address in lib/ndb/local, and this will be put in your prompt of any shell. this is nice but not

Re: [9fans] Sponsoring a new Intro book by the Flan 9 Poundation

2022-01-24 Thread Steve Simon
i suggest first you check your facts carefully before publicly accusing anyone of anything. throwing unchecked accusations around is a good way to start an angry mob, and we all know how inclusive those tend to be. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: ht

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-28 Thread Steve Simon
I am a long term sam user and a three button mouse, but I also like the ease of navigation of a scroll wheel. I use a Beatus mouse - three real buttons and a scroll wheel on the side for your thumb. Sadly they are only made right handed and they are a little small for my hand but they are still

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
search ebay for beatus mouse On 29 Jan 2022, at 1:22 am, adr wrote: Do you know where to buy the wired model? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49f3cceea70d2b61-Me3a9d0fbf96e1b424073ffab Delivery options: https://9fa

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
good grief people. Someone doesn’t like GPLs, can we not just accept this and not tell them they are wrong. And if they wish not to release the source for their work, again that is their decision. its one thing to point out the (possibly) unseen side effects of these decisions but lets just l

Re: [9fans] plan9port spell and dict

2022-03-11 Thread Steve Simon
my spelling is so dreadful that i need more help than just spell. i wrote suggest(1) which tries to guess what i meant to write: http://www.quintile.net/pkg/suggest.tbz this runs on vanilla plan9 so may need a little tweak for p9p. i got hold of an OED cdrom and managed to build dict for that -

Re: [9fans] factotum (was: Connect plan9 with Linux SMB resource)

2022-04-10 Thread Steve Simon
i am the author of cifs. i may have some slightly more recent fixes than 9 front has, i will check. the manual page does explain some registry settings you may need to tweak to get it to work - to do with windows getting more and more restrictive about the authentication protocols it supports.

9fans@9fans.net

2022-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
ntohl in libc? say its not so? -Steve > On 13 May 2022, at 10:23 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth adr : >> so I imagined that some functions >> or macros could be defined already somewhere. > > They exist in fcall.h -- see GBIT/PBIT macros. > > I wouldn't object mych to putting them i

Re: [9fans] 9p server to multiply 9p messages?

2022-06-01 Thread Steve Simon
for performance testing why not copy from ramfs on one machine to ramfs on another? the suggestion from a 9con passim was to have fossil/cwfs/hjfs etc add a Qid type flag to files indicating they are from backing store (QTSTABLE ?)and thus may be copied in parallel. devices and synthetic would

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
the native plan9 c environment is similar to ansi c but has some differences, mainly to the standard libraries. plan9 also has an ansi/posix environment which is aimed at making it easier to port foreign code. to use ape, use the pcc command. there is a fairly complete command line enviroment

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
apologies for completely missing the point, note to self: coffee first, then reply to mailing lists -Steve > On 6 Oct 2022, at 11:21, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >  > If you look at plan9port (eg, https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/), you'll see > how that's done for a good chunk of the applicati

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-10 Thread Steve Simon
re: p9p for windows Sean Quinlan did a p9p-line port for windows called 9pm, It was seen (it seems) as a port of sam with some simple command line tools rather than a complete plan9 toolkit. its available here: https://netlib.org/research/ as sam.exe There was an attempt at a p9p for windows b

Re: [9fans] Statistics collection for Plan 9

2022-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
the screenshot failed to attach… > On 27 Nov 2022, at 16:30, Steven Stallion wrote: > > All, > > Some time ago (history(1) claims late 2015) I wrote a small network > client for collectd to send system statistics to a remote server for > visualization. It's worked well over the years and ove

Re: [9fans] Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-16 Thread Steve Simon
i think you may not have created your mailbox. every user needs to create their own mailbox with “mail -c”.cron similarly with cron -cthis is usually done by the script /sys/lib/newuser which also creates your $home/lib/profile and some other bits.this needs to be done only once per user.-SteveOn 1

Re: [9fans] iwp9: papers announced

2023-03-14 Thread Steve Simon
seconded, excellent work all. i would like to buy the proceedings if they are going to be available as a bound volume. -Steve > On 14 Mar 2023, at 4:52 am, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Too far for me to travel, but there is a lot in the list I will be > extremely sorry to miss. > > Well done to

Re: [9fans] [PATCH] fossil: fix a deadlock in the caching logic

2023-04-04 Thread Steve Simon
was this hard to reproduce?i have not seen fossil deadlocking and have used it since i installed my first home server in 2004.there definitely _was_ a problem in the snapshot code which was finally resolved around 2015 (roughly), i think perhaps skip, or forsyth found it - i apologise if i have the

Re: [9fans] iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
not quite sure i understand what you are asking, but perhaps ns(1) will show you what you want.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 6:59 pm, Conor Williams wrote:hello 9fannors...i wish to find the device? which the p9 iso file is mounted from...(a vm boot (i dont think that matters though...)e.g c drive is /

Re: [9fans] Re: iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
9660srv - it mounts an iso as 9p file server in /srv/9660, so you need to do a mount(1) to actually see the contents.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 7:20 pm, Conor Williams wrote:ok... thank you Steve, well in...that particular train of thought leads me to another question...has you r a'yone an iso.expan

Re: [9fans] PXE tftpload: file does not exist

2023-07-17 Thread Steve Simon
are you running the tftp server? > On 17 Jul 2023, at 4:38 pm, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > > I have a standalone file server, and a separate standalone auth server. > > I tried to pxe boot a cpu server. > It gets the /386/9boot to load fine, but then it seems, that it can’t > retrieve the fil

Re: [9fans] Standalone venti, fossil configuration

2023-08-18 Thread Steve Simon
if fossil and venti are started at boot then the plan9.ini variable venti= is all thats needed. if you want to start them after boot, booting from another filesystem then the -v option to fossil is what you are after. i wrote a hand-holding doc about rebuilding a venti/fossil years ago: https:

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
> Plan 9 first edition came out in 1992, at a time when multicore didn't exist, > and multicore was released with IBM's Power 4 in 2001. possibly true but multi-cpu boxes where becoming quite popular in the late 1980s and these have very similar kernel design challenges to multicore architectu

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
there was a vax compiler and i think a vax kenfs implementation, i don’t know if there was a vax cpu/auth kernel. quite possibly not. currently i can only find my own post on tuhs confirming the vax was a dead end. but i am sure jmk told me he found a vax compiler binary in the labs dump. i t

Re: [9fans] print() in kernel space doesn't work like I would think

2023-08-31 Thread Steve Simon
trycat /dev/kmesgorcat /dev/kprintOn 31 Aug 2023, at 4:44 pm, dusan3...@gmail.com wrote: I was editing plan9's realtime scheduler in /sys/src/9/port/edf.c and was trying to add a print to log something, but print didn't show anywhere(or I am looking at the wrong place). It has some prints in sourc

Re: [9fans] 9Legacy status

2023-09-03 Thread Steve Simon
hi don, yes it it. 9 legacy is the replacement for the labs sources repository in real terms. it is courteous to cross publish patch descriptions to 9front of course. sadly i have become all but inactive on plan9 these days, but hope i might get back to it. -Steve > On 4 Sep 2023, at 3:34 a

Re: [9fans] happy halloween

2023-11-01 Thread Steve Simon
very fine carving :-)-SteveOn 1 Nov 2023, at 5:51 am, fig wrote:glenda would’ve been way too hard to carve. plus the knife i had could barely have cut butter it was so dull. 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long

2024-03-01 Thread Steve simon
A larger block size as lucio says, and also try two dd's with a pipe between them, one reading and one writing. dd(1) is single threaded but you have two asynchronous physical devices. I have had good success copying sd-cards using fcp - rsc's multithreaded cp, already in the distribution, th

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Steve simon
re: VCS -vs-dump I always planned to add code to fossil to allow members of (say) the 'dump' group to trigger fa fossil to venti dump at arbitrary times. If with this it would be trivial to have a 'release' rc script which could save a log message and trigger a dump. I know this is not really a

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-14 Thread Steve Simon
coraid has an interesting history.How Silicon Valley can kill your business, by a man scolded by the machineinformation-age.comBrantley now has the Coraid name back too and is using plan9 to this day.-SteveOn 14 May 2024, at 5:39 pm, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:"B. Atticus Grobe" wrote:As for compani

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
Just a little first hand experience - I have run a fossil and venti server for twenty years now. Fossil suffered three problems in my opinion: Firstly it was not well publicised that fossil was never designed to cope with overflow; the sad truth is it fails catastrophically, as whitenessed by

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
t; On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM Steve Simon wrote: >> >> >> Just a little first hand experience - I have run a fossil and venti server >> for twenty years now. >> >> Fossil suffered three problems in my opinion: >> >> Firstly it was not well pu

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Steve Simon
i got very suspicious at the mention of a procinfo syscall - unlikely in plan9, and i couldn't imagine a use for such a thing given we have /proc already. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb-M506

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
i can only speak from experience, but i have had fossil and venti running on a single ssd (on a radpberry pi) for 5 years now - no rotating discs left at home. i have mtime changes and ephemeral snapshots turned off to reduce the update rate. i chose a sandisk card, and take backups just in cas

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve simon
I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.net I packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbz It contains an (optional) string heap as I wrote this code for 16bit embedded systems with limited memory. There is also m

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
sorry, i meantIndex of /quintile.net/pkgquintile.net-SteveOn 25 Jul 2024, at 7:11 pm, Steve simon wrote:I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me.My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.netI packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbzIt contains an (optional

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
yes, sorry 9atom not 9front. i am happy for you to use the same license :-) -Steve > On 25 Jul 2024, at 9:26 pm, sirjofri wrote: > > Hi, > > 25.07.2024 20:12:03 Steve simon : >> I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. > > I guess you mean 9atom

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-26 Thread Steve Simon
I believe 9atom was a private project of Erik Quanstrom‘s - separate to his day job at Coraid, though id did include some little bits of coraid’s technology.I don’t believe it has been updated since everything changed there - the story here for those who have not seen it:How Silicon Valley can kill

Re: [9fans] Re: venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-07-31 Thread Steve Simon
gosh, a lot of vitriol on this subject. i suggest contacting Geoff Collier off-list, who i suspect wrote the code. I am pretty sure he is the author the set of efficient blueray backup and restore scripts for venti to support the Dutch team under Sape. The venti mirroring scripts probably date

Re: [9fans] Pi Zero - Ethernet?

2024-08-08 Thread Steve Simon
fwiw. i am pretty sure there was a plan9 raspberry pi spi driver, though this was for richard millers package - it may not (yet) be ported to 9front.i cannot remember if it was Richard's code or someone else's. check the 9fans archives -generally a good idea for any plan9 related questions.-SteveOn

Re: [9fans] Pi Zero - Ethernet?

2024-08-08 Thread Steve Simon
zero doesn't > come with an rj45 jack, so is this some add-on card to provide > ethernet? > >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 9:27 AM Steve Simon wrote: >> >> fwiw. i am pretty sure there was a plan9 raspberry pi spi driver, though >> this was for richard millers

Re: [9fans] Adding lookup() to 9p?

2024-09-03 Thread Steve Simon
can you give some examples of where this new api would be used? nemo added a readfile and (i think) writefile message in his fork. that was aimed at transferring large sequential files from a fileserver. there was also many discussions of doing parallel or chained reads to improve 9p performa

Re: [9fans] APE: a further note.

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Simon
> -T is great. But Python can't be built with it. Python explicitly > creates functions with type signatures that don't match and this makes > -T very unhappy. Is there a #pragma to turn off type checking on a symbol, somthing like #pragma incomplete? -Steve

Re: [9fans] troff citations and bibliographies

2010-04-18 Thread Steve Simon
> ...refer(1) seems to have fallen out of favor. Not at all, I still use it. contrib/install steve/refer Thanks to Forsyth for the majority of the work, I just added a few bits and packaged it. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Integer arithmetic: some lessons

2010-04-22 Thread Steve Simon
> This will give you > -3 -4 > -3 -4 > -3 -4 > I don't have a way to test what kencc does but I would be > surprised if the result is any different FWIW 8c gives the same answer. -Steve

Re: [9fans] corrupted update on 9vx

2010-04-22 Thread Steve Simon
replica uses fcp which works multithreaded for speed. Perhaps the implementation of fswrite() #Z in 9vx uses a seek() followed by a write() rather than pwrite() which is not thread safe. Just a guess. -Steve

[9fans] webfs

2010-04-24 Thread Steve Simon
I am doing some work on webfs - if anyone has any patches that they have generated locally but not submitted or have not yet been accepted please send me them (off list). Thanks -Steve

Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines

2010-04-25 Thread Steve Simon
> cpu -c 'procdata' | process > ... > Perhaps I'm overlooking some simple solutions here. > Any suggestions? cpu(1) works by starting exportfs on the remote machine and serving the local machines filespace. The remote shell is started with its stdin/out/err attached to /mnt/term/dev/cons, thus the

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-28 Thread Steve Simon
Ok, I admit its a trivial experiment but: > fcp is still a 9p conversation. http get is a tcp stream. Fcp is > better than cp but not that much better. > If you're yanking one file, a TCP stream is pretty ideal. Dropping 9p > on top of it, even when the 9p involves multiple TREADs > in flight, is

Re: [9fans] Plan9/Inferno realted BibTeX database?

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Simon
Search 8fans passim, there was alink to one of the US universities which had a plan9 bibtex database. If you put one on sources, can you also convert it to refer format for those of us who are still troff luddites. -Steve

Re: [9fans] du and find

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Simon
> on Plan 9 you'd probably want to make a wrapper for grep anyway if you > do a lot of recursive searching. Or just apply runs grep -r patch... -Steve

Re: [9fans] du and find

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Simon
> > Or just apply runs grep -r patch... > % man 1 grep | grep '\-r' s/runs/ron's/ see 9fans passim for the patch. -Steve

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Simon
> > cd /sys/man; mk indices > > ty but mk fails with: > mkindex: '/bin/mkindex' file does not exist Works here on native plan9. perhaps you are using 9vx? This installs only a subset of the plan9 distribution initially. -Steve

[9fans] plan9 lpt1

2010-05-05 Thread Steve Simon
It did work for me some years ago, however I no longer have a parallel printer, sorry. -Steve

Re: [9fans] sources flproto example still accurate

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Simon
> snaptime –a –s 15 I would not reccomend -s 15 for now, there appears to be a bug in fossil where it can deadlock itself somtimes - My home server used to lock up once every few weeks, after disabling snapshots it has been fine. I do still do nightly dumps to venti however, that part of the

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

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
Is this an authentication problem? are you running authentication? These might give you a hint as to why you don't have permission: % ls -ld /cfg % echo $user % grep $user /adm/users -Steve

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
see arg(2) for all the details. -- indicates the end of any options, it ensures that any following arguments which happen to begin with a minus are not interpreted as options. consider the classic question: "how do I remove a file called -z" -Steve

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
I don't beleive greps manual page says it writes its output to file descriptor 1 and reaqds from file descriptor zero but it does, as do all conventional (sic) plan9 programs. Similarly they all use arg(2) to parse their args so they will all support --; however if you are unsure you could look at

Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w vs. editing /adm/users manually

2010-05-16 Thread Steve Simon
re: when users leave I think the labs policy was to change the name of the user from frank:frank to was-frank:frank the first name is what is used by auth and is reported by dirstat() the seccond name is what is held on the disk (ken fs uses integers here). Beware: this is from

Re: [9fans] Acme-sac integration with Windows NT

2010-05-18 Thread Steve Simon
> It seems like windows console > programs work with screen buffers, something like using curses. This is the case for a few windows commands but many, even the majority don't use windows console functions, they just read from stdin and writ to stdout so you can run then via a pipe. I do this all

Re: [9fans] Tvx update

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
> almost no unix programs (other than find) > bother with mount points. Ok, only because it was in my final year exams, I know of one more pwd needs to understand mount points (or did in v7) so it can step over them - no doubt ther is a getwd() system call these days, darn'ed new fangled things.

Re: [9fans] offered without comment or judgement

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Simon
> But you can do at least as good as these forms of ID. PKI requires > knowledge of some sort of passkey. (I just worry about identification > for people who are not smart enough to pick a good key. Which, > unfortunately, is also most people. My understanding is a passkey just needs sufficent ent

Re: [9fans] offered without comment or judgement

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Simon
> Many banks still use 4 digit PINs on their ATM cards, without problem. > Possession is a very important factor. well, posscession and the fact that you only get three attempts to enter the PIN (in the UK at least), so brute force attacks are a non-starter, so limited kyspace is much less of a p

Re: [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Simon
On Tue Jun 29 22:04:19 BST 2010, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > Can someone remind me of the problem? Is it simply the need to be able > to set %gs? > > Could a write to /dev/arch of something like > gs 0xwhatever > which sets %gs for that process solve the problem? > > Or is it bigger than that? >

Re: [9fans] well, that was unexpected.

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Simon
> ; pwd > /arm/bin > ; cpu -h minooka.coraid.com > bind: exec header invalid > bind: exec header invalid I added this to my profile: path=(/bin .) though I did it mainly for performance: 9fs distant-machine cd /n/distant-machine ls

Re: [9fans] kbd fail

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Simon
Sorry, this one was my bad. I tested it on ebver machine I had to hand and had no problems. I'am sure geoff will roll it back - he had concerns but I was confident, oh well. -Steve

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Steve Simon
> smbnegotiate: 'NT LM 0.12' > smbnegotiate: couldn't get mschap challenge > reply: error 2/1 Re: aquarela I don't use aquarela these days, but I think the problem is to do with aquarela being unable to contact keyfs. aquarela must be started on your server after keyfs, I run it on my work termi

Re: [9fans] plan9port version of pool?

2010-07-22 Thread Steve Simon
I have some changes/fixes/extensions to webfs which I haven't documented for a patch yet, but if you want to use it in anger I can send you my current code. -Steve

Re: [9fans] auth server hardware

2010-07-22 Thread Steve Simon
> any suggestions for modern, small, quiet, and call > hardware for a Plan 9 auth server. I believe the sheevaplug is out as we have no nand flash driver, some people on here use sorkris boards which have IDE interfaces. there are also IDE to compact flash adapters which completely remove the nee

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