Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Maxwell Underwood
Roman V. Shaposhnik writes: If we were to oversimplify things [then the] brain is, at its core, limited by a very fundamental biological constraint: speed at which cells can communicate. A sort of propagation delay if we were to use electronics as an analogy. It seems to be agreed

Re: [9fans] Reliable 9vx(.OSX) crash

2008-08-05 Thread Uriel
The hg web interface can automatically provide tarballs of the latest tip, simply add: allow_archive = bz2 zip to your hgweb.config (there is a way to do this per-project, but I don't remember how). For an example of how it works see http://repo.cat-v.org/hg/ uriel On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:50

[9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread sqweek
Ran into an interesting one setting up my cpu server. The following reliably freezes the box: # echo dma on /dev/sdC0/ctl # 9fat: Leaves the console totally unresponsive, no ^T^Tp, no ^P. rc -x on 9fat: gives rfork e as the final command. sdC0 is a cdrom. I can turn dma on for my sata disks

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread Sape Mullender
I wonder why there is a command to turn on DMA on disks. Could it be that some disks don't work with DMA on? Sape ---BeginMessage--- Ran into an interesting one setting up my cpu server. The following reliably freezes the box: # echo dma on /dev/sdC0/ctl # 9fat: Leaves the console

[9fans] float.h

2008-08-05 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and including ape/float.h yields name clashes. Thanks.

[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

Re: [9fans] Bizarre freeze

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
I wonder why there is a command to turn on DMA on disks. Could it be that some disks don't work with DMA on? sure. it's PC hardware, so it's crap :-) unfortunately, this isn't a pc hardware thing. pata devices are not required to support dma. ata 7, which is the first to include sata

Re: [9fans] SATA VT8251 support?

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
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. try http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c. i hadn't enabled this in the release version because i didn't have any hardware on which to

[9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
the threaded view is pretty useful but a good bit of the time, i skim the list archives in order. is there any way to get the old, unthreaded view? - erik

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread Uriel
Ah, the old format was very nice, but to have threading at last is very nice too, but I agree having both would be best. Is the code used to generate the 9fans.net web archives somewhere? The output is much better than any other mailing list web archive I have seen. uriel On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net/archive

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Cox
the threaded view is pretty useful but a good bit of the time, i skim the list archives in order. is there any way to get the old, unthreaded view? Sequential messages with the same subject get grouped so that the subject is given only once, but there is no reordering of messages. Now that

Re: [9fans] a question on style

2008-08-05 Thread erik quanstrom
OK, am I just out of date or is there a real reason for linker sets? I see it this way: using linker sets means you have to learn and understand the linkers language to understand how the system is configured (when trying to track down a problem) using a bit of