[9fans] Standalone package of command-line sam for unix

2009-11-21 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, I have constructed a standalone package of Sam (command-line half only) for UNIX, for systems that you don't want to / can't build Plan 9 Ports for and wish to connect to with samterm via ssh. http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/src/sam.tar.bz2 I extracted enough of lib9/libkern, libbio, and

Re: [9fans] Porting GO LANG

2009-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
it really isn't worth fighting. /n/dump/2009/1120/sys/src/cmd/yacc.c:1918,1933 - yacc.c:1918,1940 /* i is the number of lines skipped */ i = 0; - if(Bgetrune(finput) != '*') - error(illegal comment); c = Bgetrune(finput); - while(c != Beof) { -

Re: [9fans] Examples of rc scripts

2009-11-21 Thread Steve Simon
There was a mailing list for the unix re-implementation of rc by Byron Rakitzis, this includes many examples and general info. Be careful however, there are a few significant syntatic differenctes between Byron's RC and Plan9's one, I am fairly sure these are detailed in an appendix at the end of

Re: [9fans] Examples of rc scripts

2009-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
info here. http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/netlib/9fans/ http://rc-shell.slackmatic.org/ wow. big miscommunication here. when the original site went down and i couldn't contact any of my list of usual byron-rc suspects, i redid freshmeat's listing to point to something active.

Re: [9fans] A trace of poolalloc in-kernel

2009-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
I've gotten and graphed a quick trace of all requests in-kernel to poolalloc during a session with my terminal, where I booted up, created a few windows, built a kernel, and shutdown. http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/p9malloc-traces/ (There's even some eye-candy!) Quick summary: 50% of all

[9fans] A trace of poolalloc in-kernel

2009-11-21 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, I've gotten and graphed a quick trace of all requests in-kernel to poolalloc during a session with my terminal, where I booted up, created a few windows, built a kernel, and shutdown. http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/p9malloc-traces/ (There's even some eye-candy!) Quick summary: 50% of all

[9fans] power64 architecture v. fossil

2009-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
amuzing bug 'o the day. while 9c isn't in the standard distribution, if one has OS=9* and does a mk clean in /sys/src/cmd/fossil, you will remove 9.h since 9.h looks like a temporary name for a command named h for the power64 architecture. - erik

[9fans] using acme/Mail from plan9port in Linux

2009-11-21 Thread Lorenzo Bolla
Hi all, can anyone point me to a document (if any) that explains how to use acme/Mail to read e-mail in Linux? I couldn't find any useful information in the plan9port distribution and it does not work out-of-the-box. Thanks for your help! L.

Re: [9fans] using acme/Mail from plan9port in Linux

2009-11-21 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Lorenzo Bolla lbo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, can anyone point me to a document (if any) that explains how to use acme/Mail to read e-mail in Linux? I couldn't find any useful information in the plan9port distribution and it does not work out-of-the-box.

[9fans] usb disks in plan9

2009-11-21 Thread Tim Newsham
I'm trying to partition a usb thumb drive in plan9: % disk/fdisk -baw /dev/sdU4.0/data adding part failed: plan9: permission denied ?warning: partitions could not be updated in devsd I get similar issues when trying to use prep. If I rerun fdisk or prep it seems to read the previously