Re: [9fans] What is Plan9 exactly?

2014-06-05 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 5 June 2014 06:11, OMAR RADWAN owemeac...@live.com wrote: I just did, though I cannot find anything about the kernel architecture Fortunately, there is a book about it. http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.pdf which might have been updated to 4th Edtion, but the overall structure is similar, although

Re: [9fans] What is Plan9 exactly?

2014-06-05 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jun 5 06:36:36 EDT 2014, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 June 2014 06:11, OMAR RADWAN owemeac...@live.com wrote: I just did, though I cannot find anything about the kernel architecture Fortunately, there is a book about it. http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.pdf which might have

Re: [9fans] minor kernel bug

2014-06-05 Thread erik quanstrom
we do that in ilock() and canlock() so it's a bug I think to not do it also in lock(). The field is only used in iprintcanlock which use canlock(), not lock(), so this if fine, but for consistency it would be better to also do it in lock() no? ilock and unlock could assert(l-m-machno ==

Re: [9fans] minor kernel bug

2014-06-05 Thread erik quanstrom
oh, but you missed a spot in lock. - erik

Re: [9fans] What is Plan9 exactly?

2014-06-05 Thread brz-systemd-dev
What is it exactly? Just another step on the path to the one true operating system, OS X with Golang.

Re: [9fans] What is Plan9 exactly?

2014-06-05 Thread Yoann Padioleau
Nice! On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, s...@9front.org wrote:

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

2014-06-05 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Plan 9 doesn't have virtio ethernet driver (except mischief's, which I don't think is ready for public consumption yet). You will also need a virtio-scsi driver; GCE does not offer virtio-blk. But it should work just fine

[9fans] suicide message on vmware

2014-06-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hi, I just saw a suicide message on 9atom running on plan9 while updating the system: % replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network After a while, I saw this printed, but the replica/pull is proceeding without any problem. (not completely readable because stats window overwrote the screen) ... bad

Re: [9fans] suicide message on vmware

2014-06-05 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jun 5 23:17:37 EDT 2014, vu3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just saw a suicide message on 9atom running on plan9 while updating the system: % replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network After a while, I saw this printed, but the replica/pull is proceeding without any problem. (not

Re: [9fans] other kernel bug

2014-06-05 Thread Bruce Ellis
Could this solve the 'why is swap so crappy?' On 05/06/2014 11:58 AM, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: correct. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] suicide message on vmware

2014-06-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:51 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Thu Jun 5 23:17:37 EDT 2014, vu3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just saw a suicide message on 9atom running on plan9 while updating the system: % replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network After a while, I saw this

Re: [9fans] other kernel bug

2014-06-05 Thread cinap_lenrek
no. it just makes the kernels malloc arena limit a bit smaller than it should be. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] suicide message on vmware

2014-06-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Well, looks like I cannot run any binaries anymore and getting the suicide message! I don't have anything critical on this vm image and can re-install it. But I want to see if I can recover it and how. I will re-read the syscall 53 thread to look for any solutions. Ramakrishnan On Fri, Jun 6,