Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Eckhardt
As to how many groups and students, they didn't say anything about that other than to show that each year the numbers had increased. Our prospects were evaluated with some care. In particular, Google has stated, publicly, in writing, that they expect to fund ~10% fewer students and thus fewer

Re: [9fans] C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2009-03-09 Thread hugo rivera
thank you. 2009/3/8, Pietro Gagliardi pietr...@mac.com: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.pdf I uploaded a slightly updated version to /n/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.ms and updated the PDF likewise. When I get more time I will further expand the tutorial.

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

2009-03-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Thank you R 2009/3/8 yy yiyu@gmail.com: 2009/3/4 roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com: personally, i think that Put should work on any non-application window, and that re-columnation should only take place if the textual content hasn't been modified by the user. (and probably also that if you

[9fans] ping suicide: sys: trap: divide error pc=0x00003953c

2009-03-09 Thread ROuNIN
Hello all, I would like to learn how to fix this in the ping C code, I am new to plan9 and C ip/ping -r -f www.google.com sending 32 64 bytes messages 0 ms apart to icmp!www.google.com!1 ping 238: suicide: sys: trap: divide error pc=0x3953 term% 0: rrt 38841 us, avg rtt 38841 us, ttl = 128

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

2009-03-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
I think the attached patch is what you are proposing. If you apply it, -- - yiyus || JGL . Sorry for the question, but how can I apply the patch you sent? I mean, having the file with the patch and the file to be changed, what command is to be performed? thanks R

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

2009-03-09 Thread Rudolf Sykora
well, probably there is none such, sorry... :) R 2009/3/9 Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com: I think the attached patch is what you are proposing. If you apply it, -- - yiyus || JGL . Sorry for the question, but how can I apply the patch you sent? I mean, having the file with the patch

Re: [9fans] ping suicide: sys: trap: divide error pc=0x00003953c

2009-03-09 Thread erik quanstrom
since it doesn't make sense to both send packets as fast as possible and to delay randomly between packets, i think this case is just disallowed. /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/ip/ping.c:532,537 - ping.c:532,541 break; } ARGEND; + if(flood rint){ +

[9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
given a list of files like /fish /dog /snake/asp /snake/python, the results of a vac (as interpreted by vacfs) seem to be /fish /dog /asp /python. is this intentional? it seems unexpected, and makes doing selective backups using vac a bit awkward. this is vac on p9p and vacfs on plan9, if that

Re: [9fans] Porter-Duff alpha blending

2009-03-09 Thread erik quanstrom
i submitted a patch to plan 9 with russ' fix: memdraw32bit. thanks russ, andrey! note: you will need to recompile your kernel, not just applications that use libmemdraw. i leave it as an exercize to the reader to port this to 9vx. ☺ - erik

[9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread xiantingmanbu
How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? Has anyone done it?

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread roger peppe
2009/3/9 Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com: given a list of files like /fish /dog /snake/asp /snake/python, the results of a vac (as interpreted by vacfs) seem to be /fish /dog /asp /python. is this intentional? it seems unexpected, and makes doing selective backups using vac a bit awkward. i

Re: [9fans] Porter-Duff alpha blending

2009-03-09 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: All this chatter about blending and Russ' recent updates to p9p encouraged me to finally fix a small thing that's annoyed me with devdraw's on OS X: that odd blank (all white) window when waking a machine from sleep,

Re: [9fans] Porter-Duff alpha blending

2009-03-09 Thread yy
2009/3/9 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: i leave it as an exercize to the reader to port this to 9vx. ☺ There you are. Easy exercises are also good from time to time :) The patch also allows to use Shift+Button3 as Button2 (as documented in the man page). Regards, -- - yiyus || JGL .

Re: [9fans] texlive port to plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, xiantingmanbu xiantingma...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone porting TexLive to Plan 9? Plan 9 hasn't so many tex- related programs. Tex and MF is not enough. Bear in mind that some of the newer TeX programs (pdfTeX, XɘTeX, luaTeX) use a C++ library to handle

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com wrote: given a list of files like /fish /dog /snake/asp /snake/python, the results of a vac (as interpreted by vacfs) seem to be /fish /dog /asp /python. is this intentional? it seems unexpected, and makes doing selective backups

Re: [9fans] texlive port to plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:35 AM, xiantingmanbu xiantingma...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone porting TexLive to Plan 9? Plan 9 hasn't so many tex- related programs. Tex and MF is not enough. one option before you go to that level of pain: use Plan 9's - x11 emulator - linux emulator and see

Re: [9fans] Porter-Duff alpha blending

2009-03-09 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Michaelian Ennis wrote: I am confused as to why one would return eventNotHandledErr after handling the event? Because it's not really handling the event. It just happens to be the only hook available for monitoring the application event loop (in this case: the

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Paweł Lasek
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu xiantingma...@gmail.com wrote: How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9?  Has anyone done it? Porting wouldn't be hard. I don't remember the code right now (will look into it when I get home) but probably the only thing you would have to change would be

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/9 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com: if you want selective backups you can use the -x flag. presumably you mean the -e flag? i meant the -x flag (he said he was on p9p). http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/vac.html russ

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread roger peppe
2009/3/9 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/9 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com: if you want selective backups you can use the -x flag. presumably you mean the -e flag? i meant the -x flag (he said he was on p9p).

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
i'm not sure whether the MMIX stuff was a fresh effort or an extension of the MIX code, but it might be worth noting that someone (Charles, i think) ported MIX years ago. perhaps a useful starting point. On 2009-03-09, Paweł Lasek pawel.la...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35,

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com wrote: i'm not sure whether the MMIX stuff was a fresh effort or an extension MMIX is totally new, a more modern, RISC-y assembly language. Knuth worked with Hennessy on it, and it shows (not in a bad way, of course). AFAIK it's all

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
You can vac the directories separately and then use vac -m to create an archive that looks any way you want. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com wrote: given a list of files like /fish /dog /snake/asp /snake/python, the results of a vac (as interpreted by vacfs) seem

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-09 Thread Bruce Ellis
IWP92009-Bondi: http://www.chunder.com/stuff/IWP92009-Bondi/IWP92009-Bondi.pdf brucee

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-09 Thread Graham Gallagher
do you reckon anyone will make dinner? 10am is an early start. perhaps you need to track down TK On 3/10/09, Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: IWP92009-Bondi: http://www.chunder.com/stuff/IWP92009-Bondi/IWP92009-Bondi.pdf brucee

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Lee Duhem
2009/3/9 xiantingmanbu xiantingma...@gmail.com: How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9?  Has anyone done it? I have doen it before, but now it's a little out-dated: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/lee/mmix-20060918.tgz lee

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread Russ Cox
i think include fish/clown exclude fish/* and then vac fish dog pig would be fine. i haven't tried this, but i know there are some vac users who use -x quite a bit. russ

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 9 23:30:22 EDT 2009, ano...@gmail.com wrote: that seems a little awkward. erik's suggestion is what i think i'd really like. rog's would be okay, although still somewhatawkward, were i on plan 9; since i'm not, i think i have russ's option. so with -x, say i had a tree: /dog

Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?

2009-03-09 Thread john
Erik Quanstrom wrote: On Mon Mar 9 23:30:22 EDT 2009, ano...@gmail.com wrote: that seems a little awkward. erik's suggestion is what i think i'd really like. rog's would be okay, although still somewhatawkward, were i on plan 9; since i'm not, i think i have russ's option. so with -x, say i

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-09 Thread Bruce Ellis
Perfect for Club Du Soleil - thanks! brucee On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: I'm thinking someone needs to get a SEAforth 40C18 into brucee's hands On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote: IWP92009-Bondi: