Re: [9fans] Blocking reads on single-threaded Srv-based 9p server?

2007-04-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:33:17PM -0500, Colin DeVilbiss wrote: The 9p(3) plan9ports manpage suggests that only multi-threaded servers should "block" requests by not respond()ing to them before returning from the associated service routine, and that only multi-threaded servers would need to impl

[9fans] Blocking reads on single-threaded Srv-based 9p server?

2007-04-05 Thread Colin DeVilbiss
I'm implementing a 9p server using plan9port. I'd like one of my files to have "blocking read" or "blocking write" behavior: any such call should block until a write occurs on some other (non-blocking) file in the same server. Is there some reason that I shouldn't implement that in a single-thre

Re: [9fans] Does Plan 9 have antialiased fonts?

2007-04-05 Thread erik quanstrom
1. download /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/antialias.tar 2. unpack in $PLAN9/font. 3. set font = $PLAN9/font/cyberbit/mod14.font in .xinitrc. simple stems to having subpixel antilaised fonts with plan 9 1. download /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/antialias.tar 2. unpack in /lib/font/bit 3. set fon

[9fans] Does Plan 9 have antialiased fonts?

2007-04-05 Thread Richard Uhtenwoldt
On plan9port, the edges of characters are jagged when looked at up close. Not antialiased. [*] Now the text on a native Plan 9 system is going to be the same way; right? Thank you in advance. [*] I last downloaded plan9port almost a year ago, July 2006, but it is unlikely that it has changed si

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread Vester Thacker
On 4/6/07, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vester, my IP changes everytime i connect to the internet, it isnt an fixed ip address, and about the /lib/ndb/local network database file, i've read that i dont need to care with it. to use ppp.. Sorry, just attempting

Re: [9fans] something more simple than import(1) -B

2007-04-05 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 4/5/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/5/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a stupid question -- there seems like there should be a > simple way to take stdin/stdout and generate a srv file -- such that I > could aux/listen1 tcp!*!someport srvit -b somesrvn

Re: [9fans] something more simple than import(1) -B

2007-04-05 Thread Russ Cox
On 4/5/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Probably a stupid question -- there seems like there should be a simple way to take stdin/stdout and generate a srv file -- such that I could aux/listen1 tcp!*!someport srvit -b somesrvname aux/listen1 tcp!*!someport rc -c 'echo -n 0 > /

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread geoff
> it seems like Bell Labs/Lucent doesn't really do anything with Plan > 9 these days except host the server. You obviously haven't done a replica/pull lately. ☺

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread W B Hacker
John Floren wrote: On 4/5/07, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: why the www.bell-labs.com doesnt talks too much about plan9 (I, really, dont know if it talks about it, i never found anything about it there). Anyone knows? Because they have other fish to fry? I d

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
nice

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread Fazlul Shahriar
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4y38DIESYGZzgH6kShiBvGOCJEgfW99X4_83FT9AP2C3NCIckdHRQA0CwaZ/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUMvNElVRS82X0FfNDdE scroll to the bottom. It's there, just hidden somewhere. fhs

[9fans] something more simple than import(1) -B

2007-04-05 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Probably a stupid question -- there seems like there should be a simple way to take stdin/stdout and generate a srv file -- such that I could aux/listen1 tcp!*!someport srvit -b somesrvname import -B sorta does this, but it does too much, it shoves authentication down my throat and also wants to

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
i wasnt talk about this. i just want to know why in the bell-labs website www.bell-labs.com there arent anything about plan9 (if there are, they are almost nothing)

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread W B Hacker
pedro henrique antunes de oliveira wrote: why the www.bell-labs.com doesnt talks too much about plan9 (I, really, dont know if it talks about it, i never found anything about it there). Anyone knows? Dunno why you are having trouble finding it. First hit Google produces, out of 'about 2,130

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread John Floren
On 4/5/07, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: why the www.bell-labs.com doesnt talks too much about plan9 (I, really, dont know if it talks about it, i never found anything about it there). Anyone knows? Because they have other fish to fry? I don't know for sure, b

Re: [9fans] xen terminal

2007-04-05 Thread Phil Kulin
2007/4/6, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Because there isn't a password: prompt after the user: prompt, I think that means you have started fs service on 192.168.1.6 without authentication (e.g. by using srv -A with fossil). If so, try it without -A, and make sure you have created a passwor

Re: [9fans] xen terminal

2007-04-05 Thread Richard Miller
> nobootprompt=il!192.168.1.6!17008 > fs=192.168.1.6 > auth=192.168.1.6 > ... > user[none]: bootes > version...time... Because there isn't a password: prompt after the user: prompt, I think that means you have started fs service on 192.168.1.6 without authentication (e.g. by using srv -A with foss

[9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
why the www.bell-labs.com doesnt talks too much about plan9 (I, really, dont know if it talks about it, i never found anything about it there). Anyone knows?

[9fans] xen terminal

2007-04-05 Thread Phil Kulin
I have a cpu/file/auth server. I started terminal under Xen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/xen/plan9term kernel = "/home/xen/9xenpcf.gz" memory = 32 name = "plan9term" vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] extra=""" debugfactotum= nobootprompt=il!192.168.1.6!17008 fs=192.168

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
a bit more tests... ip/ping -n 1000 in my ipgateway lost almost 950. ip/ping google, lost all (put it send the bytes) dnsquery on www.google.com and www;gmail.com return ips, but i've tried other ones www.oi.com.br www.uol.com.br www.bell-labs.com and nothing (dns failure for 3) i've ping the

Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature

2007-04-05 Thread Uriel
Ok, then I guess I was wrong. Maybe a solution to quanstrom's problem would be to use file names based on the creation date (one would only need to keep one or two around). uriel On 4/5/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would be nice if the BL overlords could avoid this, maybe by movin

Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature

2007-04-05 Thread erik quanstrom
russ, the plan 9 distribution is very nice and the careful work and thought that went into the distribution. i don't think there's anything stupid about it. however, On Thu Apr 5 11:13:00 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Even if you are getting interrupted, the CD is at most 100MB > compr

[9fans] Website down

2007-04-05 Thread John Barham
I can't see anything under http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/. John

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread David Leimbach
On 4/5/07, matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One attempted, unsuccessfully, to use irc to solve one's problem. That had the makings of a haiku up until that last line ;-) > sorry for flood,. > > I've tryed star irc too, but nothing too. > > > > Haha, is there some way to write in english withou

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread matt
One attempted, unsuccessfully, to use irc to solve one's problem. sorry for flood,. I've tryed star irc too, but nothing too. Haha, is there some way to write in english without using a lot of 'I'.. "i"... that is strange a lot. :D

Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature

2007-04-05 Thread Russ Cox
Would be nice if the BL overlords could avoid this, maybe by moving the previous day ISO before the new one takes its place, similar to how replica moves foo to _foo. It already does that (maybe the overlords aren't as dumb as you think). But if the HTTP download gets interrupted after a new fil

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread Vester Thacker
On 4/5/07, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, the problem is that later i did that: term% ndb/dnsquery > www.gmail.com ... (nothing) I'm glad you've made progress. The following advice is assuming that you have a static global IP address. I haven't had the o

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
sorry for flood,. I've tryed star irc too, but nothing too. Haha, is there some way to write in english without using a lot of 'I'.. "i"... that is strange a lot. :D

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread pedro henrique antunes de oliveira
i was doing some tests. I was noticing when the system was starting rio and reading the termrc a msg: 'can't read my ip address' and the line that was causing that is the 'ip/ipconfig loopback ...'., so i've commented that line and no more msg, well, so: term% ip/pppoe -P ... term% ndb/dns -r t

[9fans] pixel manipulation program template ...

2007-04-05 Thread cej
... and a program that calculates mean R, G, B, A values is on /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/cmd/img/rgb.tbz Redefine the function doSomethingWithPixel() according to your needs, and enjoy! ++pac.