Re: [9fans] 64-bit usb boot environment

2013-10-21 Thread gdiaz
Hello I think the correct url is: http://newftp.9atom.org/other/usbtest.bz2 regards, gabi From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of john francis lee Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 1:07 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] 64-bit usb

Re: [9fans] exiting nicely

2009-09-30 Thread gdiaz
hello i think i'll do the checkexit() and doublecheck again all exiting procs unlocks all the locks they had, as the only place to check is when a proc is waiting to read from the 9p pipe: qlock(&iorlock); n = read9pmsg(mfd[0], io->mdata, messagesize);

[9fans] exiting nicely

2009-09-30 Thread gdiaz
hello I have a couple of processes working together sharing memory and using locks, and when the program finish the job and exits, the proceses in Rendez state does not exit, and i need to slay them. I'm using postnote(PNGROUP,...) call, should i write a postctl to slay the waiting proceses o

Re: [9fans] strange behaviour of ps under load

2009-07-22 Thread gdiaz
hello I already rebooted the machine so I can't check this anymore on a live system, but as you said, the clock was out of sync 10 minutes from what it sould, I activated timesync again ( /proc still shows the same incorrect date). Also i did a snap of a broken proc a day before I found the mac

[9fans] strange behaviour of ps under load

2009-07-20 Thread gdiaz
hello today i found 9grid plan9 under heavy load, stats reports load ~2000, syscall ~6, context ~22000, i was trying to discover which proc has gone crazy, but i can't even complete a ps. I can do other operations, such as sending this email over drawterm, run stats, netstat, read the logs,

Re: [9fans] naive acid debugging

2009-07-15 Thread gdiaz
Hello Thanks Russ, seems that even though i tried to use your iwp9 2007 talk as a reference, i missed the point, i should read more carefully. gabi >>>               print("f->mb=", f->mb\X,"       =?      mb=",mb\X,"\n"); >>>               f=f->next; > > Always use . (never ->) in acid. > >

Re: [9fans] naive acid debugging

2009-07-15 Thread gdiaz
hello thank you very much Erik, I'll look at that code today night, i hope to see the light soon ☺ gabi > While understanding how refs work inside nupas, i decided to try to implement > the same function nupas has to find mailbox references in acid langauge, so i > did: > > defn findmboxref

[9fans] naive acid debugging

2009-07-15 Thread gdiaz
Hello While understanding how refs work inside nupas, i decided to try to implement the same function nupas has to find mailbox references in acid langauge, so i did: defn findmboxrefs(mb,fids) { local f, refs; f=fids; while f!=0 do { print("f=", f\X,"\n"

Re: [9fans] state of the mirrors

2009-06-02 Thread gdiaz
hello I think most of users can wait a day or two to get whatever changes they need from sources, anyway we have a sources mirror in www.9grid.es (see services page for details), try it, and let me know any problems you might have. we update it daily, but manually, so don't expect a "real time"

Re: [9fans] security questions

2009-04-17 Thread gdiaz
hello you might want to take a look to vitanuova resources page for other inferno flavours than the official release. inferno-os.googlecode.com acme-sac.googlecode.com slds. gabi

Re: [9fans] python csp

2009-03-11 Thread gdiaz
hello i think somone pointed to this on 9fans days ago: www.stackless.com slds. gabi

[9fans] spamhaus alternative

2008-12-17 Thread gdiaz
Hello, I've started to get spam this week, seems that, or this has been applied to 9grid.es "Caution: If your usage should exceed the free use criteria your access to Spamhaus's public DNSBL servers is very likely to be cut off without warning." or they are missing some "well-known" sources

[9fans] Fwd: Re: devtrace release time

2008-12-17 Thread gdiaz
--- Begin Message --- On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM, ron minnich wrote: > > "The Masses are Revolting!" > "You said it! They stink on ice!" -History of the World, Part I. --- End Message ---

Re: [9fans] sam/rc script problem

2008-12-16 Thread gdiaz
hello it is possible to use sam -r from aplan9 machine to a linux one? it uses ssh too in plan9 isn't it? that could be a nice option too, if you're able to distribute sam to your hosts. slds. gabi

[9fans] point-to-point routes

2008-12-01 Thread gdiaz
Hello how can i add a route to plan9 equivalent to this one from lunix? route add default dev eth0 I've tried with: ip/ipconfig -g ip ether /net/ether0 ip 255.255.255.255 and with echo add 0 0 ip > /net/iproute but i guess i should see a route in iproute with the flags 4ip. Because that way

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-13 Thread gdiaz
Hola, Hiding the details of the underlying resources is one of the functions/features of the OS, isn't it? slds. gabi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> you of course know that the big difference in unix and other >> systems of the day was that files did not have type. this allowed >> a tools-b

Re: [9fans] success with 9vx from a terminal

2008-10-22 Thread gdiaz
Hello, Rio is the responsible for killing a process using the Del key, AFAIK there is no way to terminate a program running in console. May be with some magic combination of the keys ctrl-t ctrl-t X. gabi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Last night I downloaded 9vx. It works fine from a termi

[9fans] Booting plan9 from an iSCSI disk

2008-10-20 Thread gdiaz
Hola, Has anyone done this? I have access to a cheap hardware which could be a nice plan9 cpu server, the only thing does not work is the iSCSI disk (or i think so, look at the lspci below) I suppose the bios of the machine supports booting from iSCSI, so i think i could put a 9load or 9pxel

Re: [9fans] trace device paper from aki&john&ron now available

2008-09-22 Thread gdiaz
hello www.9grid.es has a sources web interface under "mirrors" section http://sirviente.9grid.es/sources it is updated daily. slds. gabi > I don't yet have any kind of P9 system, so no access to sources. Can I get a > copy of the ps file? > > thanks, > > Arnold > > - Original Message

Re: [9fans] Where to find plan9

2008-09-12 Thread gdiaz
hello www.9grid.es has also a sources mirror available through 9p or http, visit the services section of the web page to see the details. sorry for the delay in the answer :) slds. gabi

[9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-05 Thread gdiaz
Hi did anyone know if this controller is supported by the sata driver? i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it going. The new 9grid.es server has this controller, it would be a p

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-31 Thread gdiaz
hello thanks for the clarifications Eric and Ron ☺, btw, if you're planning to go to Greece to the 3rd. iwp9, i would love to see a real sheet of these ones: http://www.atkielski.com/PDF/data/fortran.pdf ☺ slds. gabi > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> i'

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-31 Thread gdiaz
hello thanks for the clarifications Eric and Ron ☺, btw, if you're planning to go to Greece to the 3rd. iwp9, i would love to see a real sheet of these ones: http://www.atkielski.com/PDF/data/fortran.pdf ☺ slds. gabi > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> i'

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-30 Thread gdiaz
Hello, Just a dumb question, as i'm totally out of this business, it is easier to write an emulator than translate the applications to plan9 c ? (for example) or to write (or port) the C++ and Fortran compilers and related tools? i'm asking from a technical point of view, i suppose dealing with

Re: [9fans] sources.cs.bell-labs.com

2008-07-30 Thread gdiaz
hello Access to sources is anonymous since a couple of years (try 9fs sources), you only need an account if you're going to write in sources (contrib/). I think if you want an account to write there, you should contact someone at the labs (Geoff i think) or 9trouble. slds. gabi > Hi guys

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-02 Thread gdiaz
hello 256 MB of ram fills quite easily when using a fossil+venti and when trying new incarnations of upas/fs :), i can't even compile some ports of gnu things ☺. Fortunately this will change in august, as 9grid.es will have 1Gb of memory. about the unstability, i should disable swap partition t

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
hello hehe, i don't know why it is copied, probably because if you use mbox format you need the From line as a message delimeter, but if you're using other format, the From line could be avoided. As we are talking about email, may be it has a hidden meaning nobody remembers now ;). greetings,

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
Hello right, that's just one of the problems erik solved and i was still solving ☺, the memory usage of upas/fs. slds. gabi

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
Hello iirc, mail2fs calls upas/fs then copy /mail/fs/box/files to build the new layout, but if you call upas/fs on a message with a 10mb attachment, upas/fs will load the whole thing in ram, mail2fs will write it to a file, then upas/fs will end it s operation. but the memory usage will be hug

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
Hello I used your mail2fs to store my mail archives for a couple of months (and still use it ☺), but the main problem, which is parse attachments using upas/fs, is not solved. what erik has done is great, i would vote to have it finished soon ☺ slds. gabi

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
hello great news, i just used mbox to avoid reworking the whole thing at the same time, but you already done it. I was already aware of the mbox-pain. i'll be pleased to help on this, test, bug report, try it on a public server or whatever it's needed to finish this up. About the date in the

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-12 Thread gdiaz
hello at the moment i'm playing only with mbox not imap or pop, i have a version with cache per message that 'works', upas/nedmail and acme/mail are able to read messages 'nicely', but attachments are not decoded. also file lengths is going to be a problem if i'm going to decode files within t

Re: [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-11 Thread gdiaz
hello you're right, i will think a bit more about it. thank you very much, gabi

[9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p

2008-06-11 Thread gdiaz
Hello I've a 9p server implemented using lib9p which serves decoded files, for example, i have a base64 encoded file i want to read, but i want to decode it at the same time the client reads. Then i need to save two offsets, the one sent to the client corresponds to the decoded data, and i need

Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off

2008-03-25 Thread gdiaz
Hola, i think you can take other approaches to solve your problems instead of using vim, or making acme behave like vim. see what others have done with acme: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/iwp9/papers/20.acme-trans.pdf may be that could give you more ideas, other perspectives, etc. about the tasks

Re: [9fans] next iwp9

2008-03-11 Thread gdiaz
Hola, i suppose you should take a train to alaska, a cruise to rusia (you shoud do this on summer), train to moscow and then a train to greece, an epic journey to wrote a tolkien-like book. . . if you do it for less tan 3000USD per person, let me know, i'm intested in doing it too :-) slds.