[9fans] upas/fs setup gmail and plan9port

2007-10-07 Thread fernanbolando
Hi all I was wondering what are the differences between the upas p9p in contrib? I would like to setup my gmail account through p9p. I read a few email back that upas in p9p was "buggered" is it ok now? Without my cpu server I am forced to use my linux laptop for some of my work. I am trying t

Re: [9fans] venti

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Simon
> I have fixed the sync livelock bug that anothy and others reported. I too had the "hangs at conf..." problem but it seemed to go away when I disabled a cpu. The latest change to venti has solved my problems and I am back on two cpus. Thanks, -Steve

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
That was the idea. Jochen Liedtke suggested that ukernels should not be portable, just their interface. His ukernel was hand tuned for a particular hw/compiler, afaik. On 10/7/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/7/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/7/07, Dav

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread David Leimbach
On 10/7/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/7/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. > > > > Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels? > > > yep, I could never get them to build on red hat. My mistake, using red > hat

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread David Leimbach
On 10/7/07, Andrew Wingorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> qnx is probably the most reasonable so-called microkernel > >> i've seen described > >> (but i haven't seen their code). > > > > It'

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread LiteStar numnums
L4 != Linux (although there is L4Linux) On 10/7/07, Andrew Wingorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> qnx is probably the most reasonable so-called microkernel > >> i've seen described > >> (b

[9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread Andrew Wingorodov
David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> qnx is probably the most reasonable so-called microkernel >> i've seen described >> (but i haven't seen their code). > > It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. its was realy great news o

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread erik quanstrom
>> It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. >> >> Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels? >> > yep, I could never get them to build on red hat. My mistake, using red > hat, but ... long story. after looking at the code, i didn't try to compile it. the version i looked at was c++ and s

Re: [9fans] The freq command

2007-10-07 Thread Rob Pike
freq is a ken original, an old program that sat in his personal bin for a long time. i don't remember what caused it to become public. the -r option was a late addition. it's an odd tool in the old unix tradition. its output is rarely the final answer but somehow encodes what you're looking for:

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread LiteStar numnums
TUD:OS is pretty neat. I'd like to take Nemesis out for a spin as well, but I've not the time now. On 10/7/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you mean, the all 9 subsystems works through 9P and filesystems, > > > that safe

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread ron minnich
On 10/7/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. > > Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels? > yep, I could never get them to build on red hat. My mistake, using red hat, but ... long story. ron

Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

2007-10-07 Thread David Leimbach
On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you mean, the all 9 subsystems works through 9P and filesystems, > > that safe for kernel? > > the kernel doesn't actually implement all that much, and most complex things > are outside the kernel. the biggest exceptions are networking > a