Re: [9fans] 9p wiki access busted?

2011-05-12 Thread Josh Wood
On May 12, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > for the last few weeks (at least), i've been unable to really use the > 9p access to the wiki. it connects, the Wiki client brings things up and > can brows around, but the channel gets hung up on in only a few > seconds (seems like ~15, althou

Re: [9fans] Barrelfish

2009-10-15 Thread Josh Wood
On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:53 AM, Sam Watkins wrote: With respect to Ken, Bill Gates said something along the lines of "who would need more than 640K?" With respect to Ken, from Roman's report, you only know that he asked a question. Roman was the one without an answer, and no one echoed Gates

Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Josh Wood
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: To all those who might have hesitated (for all the wrong reasons I might add) to buy this book before, now is an ideal time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1418837695/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255461503&sr=8-1 I'd

Re: [9fans] Mounting Plan9 fs on Inferno

2009-09-27 Thread Josh Wood
On Sep 27, 2009, at 5:28 PM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: So am I out of my mind or shouldn't I be able to mount a Plan 9 file system on Inferno. I thought that was one of the effects of making 9p2000 and styx the same. But even setting aside the authentication issue, if I do an aux/listen1

Re: [9fans] Lua on Plan9

2009-08-14 Thread Josh Wood
Just fetched the tarball for lua-5.1.4, changed the CC=gcc to CC=cc and tried "make posix". After lots of complaining about the -O2 option, I see: /usr/john/lua-5.1.4/src/liolib.c:178[stdin:2686] incompatible types: "IND STRUCT _1_" and "INT" for op "AS" I'm going to poke around and look into

Re: [9fans] manpages broken/outdated

2009-08-10 Thread Josh Wood
the 'usbdisk' manpage is missing Is it not disk in usb(4)? -Josh

Re: [9fans] a few misc. questions...

2009-07-22 Thread Josh Wood
As a further question on that point, where would you say would be the best place to persist that command? As far as I'm aware, my likely choices would be one of (in order of execution): /rc/bin/termrc /rc/bin/termrc.local /cfg/$sysname/termrc I generally avoid touching termrc, put site-speci

Re: [9fans] a few misc. questions...

2009-07-21 Thread Josh Wood
Fossil is user-mode, while kfs is a "kernel file system." This isn't the best way to say what I was trying to say, and may be misleading. Both are user programs; kfs is found at /$objtype/bin/disk/kfs. -Josh

Re: [9fans] a few misc. questions...

2009-07-21 Thread Josh Wood
How do I enable hd dma? There's a dmamode=ask in my plan9.ini, but I don't see that option mentioned in the plan9.ini man. echo dma on > /dev/sdXY/ctl see in sd(3). I've been running into mention of kfs throughout various rc scripts and whatnot; is kfs simply the default file system f

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Josh Wood
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process something like drawing your font, or

Re: [9fans] crontab equivalent

2009-06-23 Thread Josh Wood
sorry for the lazy question, but sometimes "it's easier to post to 9fans than to think" or to seek for info. Is there any crontab equivalent in plan 9? I mean, is there a way to execute something regularly at a given time period? cron(8) -Josh

Re: [9fans] AC97 driver

2009-06-23 Thread Josh Wood
I am trying to install AC97 driver but without success. Is there any manual somewhere how to do it? http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Installing_in_Parallels_Desktop_on_Mac_OS_X I bind(1) the files in place, rather than fetching them directly over the stock source of audio.h & c. -Jos

Re: [9fans] p9p vac issue

2009-06-22 Thread Josh Wood
OK, so all I need now is to get my hands on an old copy of the p9p binaries... the only old ones I've got are carefully backed up inside the venti that I can't get at :) I'm not sure why you may need binaries as you say, but older source revs can be pulled from hg or cvs, also giving a ch

Re: [9fans] fossil/venti falling down?

2009-06-21 Thread Josh Wood
On Jun 21, 2009, at 7:11 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: On Sun Jun 21 07:59:52 EDT 2009, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: Forgot to add that I've only seen one error on the console during all of this: /boot/fossil: could not write super block; waiting 10 seconds /boot/fossil: blistAlloc: called on clean

[9fans] Plan 9 support in mainline Discount

2009-06-18 Thread Josh Wood
I'm happy to say Plan 9 is now a supported platform for the "Discount" tools for processing the Markdown format. One can grab Discount from its home page (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/) & use an included & almost-normal mk routine to compile and install it. It builds in the AP

Re: [9fans] standalone netkey

2008-12-02 Thread Josh Wood
does anyone know of a standalone netkey for unix, mac or windows? I have a windows netkey binary, Not much used, but it runs: http://labs.utopian.net/who/josh/plan9/netkey-win32.zip I *think* its origins are here: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/plan9/ -Josh

Re: [9fans] mv on directory

2008-11-01 Thread Josh Wood
I know that. It's a copy, not move. Looking at mv.c, I believe anything that's not a rename (ie move within a directory) is a copy, then a hardremove. Mv(1) says the same thing. I just can't see any reason why to mention anything about any bug. I didn't do that. I wrote that because o

Re: [9fans] mv on directory

2008-11-01 Thread Josh Wood
On Nov 1, 2008, at 5:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why 'mv' is not allowed to act on directories. I found somewhere this argument: What should mv do to a `tree' that resides on multiple file servers? If you can't do something right, sometimes it's not worth doing at all. -rob

Re: [9fans] venti + Nt

2008-07-16 Thread Josh Wood
Has anyone gotten Nt to read/write from Venti on a Plan 9 or Linux system? I figure one could set up something with SAMBA, but there's no native 9p for Nt, right? Plan 9's aquarela(8), see the example for reading the dump. Cifs clients can write to the intervening venti-backed Plan 9 file

Re: [9fans] 9vx native OS X gui

2008-06-29 Thread Josh Wood
I assume the fix would be to install an EXC_BAD_ACCESS handler after kicking off the app event loop. That would make sure that Carbon never saw it. But I don't know how to do that. I don't have a 10.5 mac to see if this is moot with the changes to CrashReporter.app. mach/mach.h has thread_

Re: [9fans] DNS server domain

2008-03-28 Thread Josh Wood
how do I set the "defaultdomain" an a Plan 9 DNS server? dnsdomain pairs (in ndb(6)). -Josh

Re: [9fans] recommendations on cpu fossil permissions

2008-03-21 Thread Josh Wood
As bootes, I can do: # /usr/glenda/bin/rc/pull but typically get something like: error: copying /n/boot/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c: '/tmp/replica0651' permission denied I think you could just start ramfs(4) before you pull, or otherwise get a writable /tmp in bootes' namespace, to prev

Re: [9fans] how to access files out of acme-home in acme-sac

2008-03-08 Thread Josh Wood
Thank you for your mail. But I still feel difficult to do this. Could you please give me an example? On linux, look in /n/local. Type /n/local in some acme tag, then click on it with button 3. There is an acme-sac list: http://groups.google.com/group/acme-sac. Acme(1) outlines basic operation;