[dev] [sbase] what is a text file?

2014-11-21 Thread Evan Gates
POSIX defines a text file as: 3.397 Text File A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes in length, including the character. Although POSIX.1-2008 does not distinguish between text files and binar

Re: [dev] [surf] web videos idea

2014-11-21 Thread Markus Teich
Henrique Lengler wrote: > So I just thought, is there a way to combine both, my web browser that will > care only about display the html stuff, and leave the video work to my > video player? This would be awesome. Heyho, you can use youtube-dl to download embedded videos from many sites or play

[dev] [surf] web videos idea

2014-11-21 Thread Henrique Lengler
Hi, I have a video player (mplayer) installed on my computer with a lot of codecs, so it is able to play a lot of videos formats. I don't like the idea of installing some plugins like gstreamer to play vide on on the browser if have a video player already working. This is the Unix philosophy: Wri

[dev] [dwm][PATCH] added support for _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK

2014-11-21 Thread Quentin Rameau
Hi, someone asked tonight why he couldn't use his dwm keybindings when using is SDL2 application in fullscreen. After investigation it seems that SDL uses _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK to check if the window manager can handle fullscreen. Here is a patch implementing it, I'm not sure if I cleared the X

[dev] [dwm] [PATCH] Remove .hgtags

2014-11-21 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
>From 028f613d08a264a75b58adfaac758fadeae4c51a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sin Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:54:31 + Subject: [PATCH] Remove .hgtags --- .hgtags | 73 - 1 file changed, 73 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 .hgtags

Re: [dev] [sbase] style

2014-11-21 Thread k0ga
> Er, by "permission" I meant it doesn't make the _implementation_ > non-compliant. No, it doesn-t make cthe compiler non-complaint, but it makes your code non complaint. > And implementation-defined is not the same as undefined. I perfectly know it, but in this case it is not exactly said if

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Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread koneu
sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > microkernel is beautiful Beauty might be the only property superior to monolithic.

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread stanio
* koneu 2014-11-21 13:22 > + microkernel is inferior to monolithic in almost all aspects microkernel is beautiful --s

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Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread koneu
+ microkernel is inferior to monolithic in almost all aspects

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 21 November 2014 12:07, Alexander Huemer wrote: > In my personal opinion Minix is no foundation to build on. There is a > reason why Linux Torvalds with his 'hobby project' got much more thrust > from the community than Andrew. S. Tanenbaum with his professional work. Not sure if Tanenbaum's m

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 06:25:13PM -0800, Charles Thorley wrote: > I find Minix3 to be extremely interesting, and attractive (at least in > principle). The advantages of Minix are purely theoretical. All the different servers can be restarted when they crash, but that does not make the caus

Re: [dev] [sbase]building

2014-11-21 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:40:13AM +0100, k...@shike2.com wrote: > Hi, > > > Hi Evan, > > > > I'd prefer to stick to the existing makefile. It might be scary to > > say that it depends on GNU make but bear in mind that of all the make > > implementations I've tried only OpenBSD make had some tro

Re: [dev] [surf] [PATCH] add per-site user styles

2014-11-21 Thread Markus Teich
Nick wrote: > Great, I'm glad to see this, thanks for it. The opera inspired browser hiro > posted to the list reminded me of this functionality, actually, and it's a > good step towards more general customisable settings per website (e.g. > cookies, javascript), as Christoph suggested a while ago.

Re: [dev] [sbase]building

2014-11-21 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
k...@shike2.com writes: > > I'd prefer to stick to the existing makefile. It might be scary to > > say that it depends on GNU make but bear in mind that of all the make > > implementations I've tried only OpenBSD make had some trouble with it. > > I think we should remove the GNU make dependence,

Re: [dev] [sbase]building

2014-11-21 Thread k0ga
Hi, > Hi Evan, > > I'd prefer to stick to the existing makefile. It might be scary to > say that it depends on GNU make but bear in mind that of all the make > implementations I've tried only OpenBSD make had some trouble with it. I think we should remove the GNU make dependence, because we don