[9fans] awk split(a[1], a)

2012-12-09 Thread cinap_lenrek
theres a bug in awk's split function. split depopules the array a, accidently freeing a[1] (y). this doesnt show up with ape's memory allocator but with plan9's pool allocator or by modifying freesymtab() to XXX out the strings before freeing one gets surprising results like: awk 'BEGIN{a[1]="a b"

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

2012-12-09 Thread lucio
> If you plan to work on vx32, please use the following > repository, since it should contain the most recent work. > > https://bitbucket.org/0intro/vx32 > > You could send patches directly to myself since Ron Minnich > handed the repository off to me. Will do... ++L

Re: [9fans] quotefmtinstall

2012-12-09 Thread lucio
> 0. the essence of charles' point is that persistent memory is cheep, and > little > fiddly bits are expensive, from a developer's point of view. and by > cheep, we're talking silly cheep. 1kb of disk costs 100 nanodollars. it's > the > order of magnitude that's important here, a small integ

Re: [9fans] how to use secstore in p9p

2012-12-09 Thread rudolf . sykora
> Please apply the following patch. It should fix your problem. > > http://codereview.appspot.com/6906057 > > cd $PLAN9 > hget http://codereview.appspot.com/download/issue6906057_2002.diff | patch -p1 > cd src/cmd/auth/factotum/ > mk nuke && mk install && mk clean > > This is a remnant of a bug

Re: [9fans] how to use secstore in p9p

2012-12-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 9 December 2012 18:14, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1/ Why is there the delay? > > I think the delay you observe is caused by aesCBCencrypt or > aesCBCdecrypt trying to find some entropy from /dev/random. > > Try to move the mouse or do something else when secstored > is encry

Re: [9fans] how to use secstore in p9p

2012-12-09 Thread David du Colombier
> 1/ Why is there the delay? I think the delay you observe is caused by aesCBCencrypt or aesCBCdecrypt trying to find some entropy from /dev/random. Try to move the mouse or do something else when secstored is encrypting or decrypting the secstore. It should speed up the process. > 2/ What does

Re: [9fans] acme Mail and several folders; caching

2012-12-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Also, it now seems to me, that having two folders open and sending a *single* message from acme results in the message being sent twice... Sorry for the inconvenience, but it wasn't done on purpose. Ruda

[9fans] acme Mail and several folders; caching

2012-12-09 Thread rudolf . sykora
Hello, I'd like to run acme Mail with several folders (is that a proper name?) open. All the mail I read comes from my gmail account via imap. I want to have eg. my 'INBOX' and 'plan9' folders visible. When I run '9 Mail' and '9 Mail plan9' from an acme tag line, though a list of messages in both

[9fans] acme Mail and several folders; caching

2012-12-09 Thread rudolf . sykora
Hello, I'd like to run acme Mail with several folders (is that a proper name?) open. All the mail I read comes from my gmail account via imap. I want to have eg. my 'INBOX' and 'plan9' folders visible. When I run '9 Mail' and '9 Mail plan9' from an acme tag line, though a list of messages in both

Re: [9fans] how to use secstore in p9p

2012-12-09 Thread rudolf . sykora
> Please apply the following patch. It should fix your problem. > > http://codereview.appspot.com/6906057 > > cd $PLAN9 > hget http://codereview.appspot.com/download/issue6906057_2002.diff | patch -p1 > cd src/cmd/auth/factotum/ > mk nuke && mk install && mk clean > > This is a remnant of a bug

Re: [9fans] how to use secstore in p9p

2012-12-09 Thread rudolf . sykora
> Please apply the following patch. It should fix your problem. > > http://codereview.appspot.com/6906057 > > cd $PLAN9 > hget http://codereview.appspot.com/download/issue6906057_2002.diff | patch -p1 > cd src/cmd/auth/factotum/ > mk nuke && mk install && mk clean > > This is a remnant of a bug

Re: [9fans] quotefmtinstall

2012-12-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Dec 8 11:27:32 EST 2012, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > In these days of 3 Gbyte memory requirements for browsers, and 1 Gbyte > > gnome-panels, should we still insist on quotefmtinstall to ensure %q? > > I'm with you, but it's also a slippery slope... > > I do wish we could spend effort

Re: [9fans] 9vx and Go

2012-12-09 Thread David du Colombier
> Trying to execute Go programs in 9vx suggests that somehow the new > syscalls required by the Go runtime are not supported. There are a > few possible ways in which my installation is at fault, but before I > dig deeper (or ask different questions) I want to know that the > problem is not in 9vx