Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard
I disabled onboard nic(Marvell 88E8056), and using Intel's i82557. A curious poit is there are only six usb ports here. When I plugin any USB device on this board, system hungs. Kenji i'm don't know very much about plan 9's usb stuff but the motherboard claims more ports (12) than UsbMax (10). i wonder if that could cause some trouble. see pc/devusb/^usbinit. - erik
[9fans] cd booting into network
Hi, after a while I worked out that I couldn't auth fully from the boot cd because it doesn't have /boot/factotum I chose a pc kernel and made a new bootdisk so, just for the record http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2009/01/plan9-boot-cd.html
Re: [9fans] Opinion on the Nova Lite PX20 as cpu server
I am planning to a get a complete small footprint computer. I found the Asus Nova Lite Px20 Is this going to be a challenging, guru level install? The ethernet card seems to be an atheros L2 so it's probably not supported. no support for the l1x, l1e or l2 atheros wired cards. i'm not recommending the machine because i just glanced at the specs, but why not go with something that's a little more straightforwardly supported like (literally the first thing that popped up): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107034 - erik
Re: [9fans] Ogg/Vorbis ported
As with exit(), it can be replaced automatically with exits() but you
still have to figure out what message you want in your exits().
If anyone is interested, this is what I used as a compatibility shim:
#include u.h
#include libc.h
void
exit (int code) {
switch (code) {
case -1:
exits(FAILURE);
case 0:
exits(0);
default:
exits(Unknown condition);
}
}
One could instead print(%d, code), or print(FAILURE: %d, code).
Two cents, please!
printing would not make sense. neither unix nor plan 9
print exit codes.
this seems to me too complicated and not complicated enough.
on the not-complicated-enough side, to get every last program,
you would need to make exit do something like
int
exit(int r)
{
static char buf[16];
if(r == 0)
exits(0);
snprint(buf, sizeof buf, %d, r);
exits(buf);
}
and you would need to rewrite wait to atoi(w-msg).
this would catch programs like postfix that don't treat
exit status as a boolean. (as god intended.)
but once you've done this, you're going half-way down
the ape path.
otoh, if you design in unix/plan 9 portability, it's too
much.
int
exits(char *s)
{
/* missing atexits */
exit(s *s);
}
porting is rancid, isn't it?
- erik
Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to be there. That involves partitioning, which defeats the fundamental mechanics of venti. It then becomes preferable to run distinct venti services, which is the only way in which different backing stores can be used at this stage. And as far as I can establish there is no way of specifying distinct venti archives to a single fossil server, so now you also need distinct fossils. Feasible, of course, but a bit _too_ distributed to be practical. ++L
[9fans] [ANN] LDAP keyfs and secstore
Hello all. In order to ease the local (JHU ACM) use of Plan 9, I have written a LDAP-based keyfs and secstore-alike (a program which consumes LDAP passwords and emits Plan 9 secrets). I figured this might be of interest to others, and so have something of a writeup available at https://wiki.acm.jhu.edu/Plan9/LDAPAuth . The code, which is somewhat sloppy and more than a little hackish but perhaps a good start, is available at http://www.acm.jhu.edu/~nwf/p9-ldapauth/ . Constructive commentary and/or patches welcome. Enjoy. --nwf; pgpQah9IhC5Zp.pgp Description: PGP signature
