[9fans] Annyoing modified by boyd

2014-09-17 Thread Ingo Krabbe
Hey, using legacy bell-labs plan9 (I don't know the others), I often, that converges to always, get "FILE modified by boyd since last read" when editing a file on a cifs share with acme. The cifs main.c defines "boyd" as the "modifying user" (muid) in I2D and V2D, which are from fs.stat. >Fro

Re: [9fans] Annyoing modified by boyd

2014-09-17 Thread Steve Simon
Can you trace this a bit more into cifs? cifs is one of mine and I use it daily without problems, though I never migrated from sam to acme, so perhaps I just don't see your issue. I remember that smb/cifs does have weird timestamps some of which are only changed on 2 second boundries - though the

[9fans] inquiry about project sponsorship outside GSoC

2014-09-17 Thread Caleb Malchik
Greetings 9fans, I am a senior studying computer science at Tufts University. I'm interested in Plan 9 and frequently read this list. As seniors at Tufts we are required to do a year long capstone project; it's fairly open ended but must be motivated by some external sponsor. If sponsoring a group

Re: [9fans] inquiry about project sponsorship outside GSoC

2014-09-17 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:33:36 -0400 >Caleb Malchik wrote: > Your role as a sponsor would look something like this: fall semester > (between now and mid-December) you would help define requirements and > a deliverables timeline, and approve design documents. In the spring > you would monitor progr

Re: [9fans] Annyoing modified by boyd

2014-09-17 Thread Winston Kodogo
"FILE modified by boyd since last read" strikes me as more useful than most error messages I see these days. My only question is what particular weapon Boyd would have used to "modify" the file. On 17 September 2014 23:18, Ingo Krabbe wrote: > Hey, > > using legacy bell-labs plan9 (I don't know