Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-05 Thread Sergey Kornilovich
I understand it correctly? The problem is 5 months and a speedy solution can not hope for? Sad .. 2011/5/4 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net On Wed May 4 07:46:40 EDT 2011, pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 kvě, 10:33, roo...@gmail.com (Sergey Kornilovich) wrote: So far,

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-05 Thread Christian Neukirchen
quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) writes: at coraid, we're considering asking new hires use ed for a week exclusively. Does it count if I already did that? :) http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2010/09/the-week-of-ed.html -- Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Comeau
In article 201104292105.39780.er...@cox.net, errno er...@cox.net wrote: On Friday, April 29, 2011 05:21:12 AM Jacob Todd wrote: Seeing that plan 9 doesn't have a c++ compiler, i doubt it will ever be ported. But APE has c++ (old version of gcc though). That is incorrect, it was attempted but

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Comeau
In article 9ad5871bf83f37b7e7ed19169d389...@quintile.net, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: There is cfront c++ but this is so old it would probably not be worth getting it to work - templates never worked in ATT cfront. And not modern C++ in any event at this point even if so... The

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-05 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 05/04/2011 09:09 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 4 May 2011, at 11:40 am, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 04/26/11 12:03, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 24 Apr 2011, at 9:16 am, hiro wrote: In http://plan9.bell-labs.com/robots.txt you will find: User-agent: * Disallow: / *facepalm* I

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Comeau
In article 129e2e01-3583-4e27-b520-252a956f5...@corpus-callosum.com, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: On Apr 29, 2011, at 4:54 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: at any rate, `code removed is code debugged' is very true, but that's not something easily put on CV or

[9fans] Two bugs in ar

2011-05-05 Thread Anthony Martin
I was investigating a bug in the Go toolchain's fork of ar(1), called gopack, and I discovered two similar bugs in native ar. 1. With a __.SYMDEF file of size (2*n)+1 bytes, the size given in the header will incorrectly include the padding byte. 2. When writing an archive member file to

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Comeau
errno, you seem to have an interesting logic flow on some of the pros and cons you'd be up against. I have two probably naive questions (for anybody): * Assuming errno gets his wish, is Plan 9 as a system up to the task? (Please no flames.) * I don't know much about it, but I know a number of

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Greg Comeau
In article 86y62r9xno.fsf@cmarib.ramside, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: Anthony Sorace a...@9srv.net writes: because it's a huge amount of work. there's a whole pile of standards and pseudo-standards to deal with, the set is ever-growing, the components are ever-growing, and there isn't really

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
I maintain anu.homelinux.net and werc.homelinux.net sites, mine robots.txt files are quite simple and I never ever facing these servers being chocked by any such bot. i think it's a mistake to generalized from a sample size of 1 or 2 to the whole world. give 'em a break. - erik

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
* I don't know much about it, but I know a number of people who still use dumb terminals and such and swear by lynx. I know this is not what errno is seeking, and it could even end up being a distraction to such a goal, but don't know what can be built atop it, so this could equally

Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 5 05:44:12 EDT 2011, roo...@gmail.com wrote: I understand it correctly? The problem is 5 months and a speedy solution can not hope for? Sad .. why don't you take a look at the problem? - erik

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
perhaps we should revisit the links port. i see they have a 2.3pre2 version released couple of weeks ago so it's not stale: http://links.twibright.com/download/ that would be minimal effort compared to everything else.

[9fans] how to continue running mk target body after command failure?

2011-05-05 Thread EBo
I am setting up some regression testing where I expect the command to fail (actually that is what I am testing). How do you force mk to ignore the return status of a command it is running and continue running the target body? As a note, I read through all the mk attributes and could see none

Re: [9fans] how to continue running mk target body after command failure?

2011-05-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
false || echo 'failed' as opposed to: true || echo 'fail'

Re: [9fans] how to continue running mk target body after command failure?

2011-05-05 Thread roger peppe
doesn't the E attribute work for you? On 5 May 2011 15:01, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: I am setting up some regression testing where I expect the command to fail (actually that is what I am testing).  How do you force mk to ignore the return status of a command it is running and continue

Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-05 Thread Sergey Kornilovich
Unfortunately I do not know C. .. My max - rc scripts. I can help testing, and bug reports. Perhaps somewhere there is a bugzilla? (or redmine) But, as I understand it, here the development is built on the principle: Do you find it, you fix it, send a patch. :) 2011/5/5 erik quanstrom

Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-05 Thread erik quanstrom
Unfortunately I do not know C. .. My max - rc scripts. I can help testing, and bug reports. Perhaps somewhere there is a bugzilla? (or redmine) But, as I understand it, here the development is built on the principle: Do you find it, you fix it, send a patch. :) almost, i think it's perfectly

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.comwrote: perhaps we should revisit the links port. i see they have a 2.3pre2 version released couple of weeks ago so it's not stale: http://links.twibright.com/download/ that would be minimal effort compared to everything

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Iruatã Souza
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Gorka Guardiola pau...@gmail.com wrote: Any browser anyone writes/ports needs javascript and that is (mostly) independant of anything else and needed, so putting some effort there is probably good whatever the path taken. Spidermonkey javascript implementation

Re: [9fans] how to continue running mk target body after command failure?

2011-05-05 Thread EBo
On Thu, 5 May 2011 15:17:01 +0100, roger peppe wrote: doesn't the E attribute work for you? I misunderstood the definition of recipe... Oh well. That work better than || echo failed... Thanks EBo --

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Lucio De Re
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:33:47PM +, Greg Comeau wrote: * I don't know much about it, but I know a number of people who still use dumb terminals and such and swear by lynx. Links was ported to Plan 9 (I'm sure copies of it can be found). The problem here would be tracking developments,

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread ron minnich
The reason I asked if errno had looked at webfs was that he can do the standard thing (port some C++/Python Library From Hell to Plan 9) or do a much more interesting thing, which is look at stuff like abaco and webfs, and learn some lessons, and build something that is faster, better, and

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-05 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
it is (or was) in fgb's contrib. he ported it over back in 2006. cpue% js js help() JavaScript-C 1.5 pre-release 6a 2004-06-09 -Skip On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Iruatã Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Gorka Guardiola pau...@gmail.com wrote: Any browser

[9fans] Parallels 5

2011-05-05 Thread Daniel Lyons
I have a rather old VM that I made under Parallels 3 that seems to work under Parallels 5. I think I installed that one in late 2009 or early 2010. As an experiment, I tried installing the current release under Parallels 5. It installs, and pretty quickly (5 min), but there are two small