[9fans] exiting nicely

2009-09-30 Thread gdiaz
hello I have a couple of processes working together sharing memory and using locks, and when the program finish the job and exits, the proceses in Rendez state does not exit, and i need to slay them. I'm using postnote(PNGROUP,...) call, should i write a postctl to slay the waiting proceses

Re: [9fans] iwp9-bondi

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Ellis
yes, i will post a link when i tidy it up. brucee On 9/30/09, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: Are any of the presentations that were at iwp9 Bondi available anywhere? I can't find anything on it other than what's on iwp9.cat-v.org and this list. -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke,

[9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread Sam Watkins
I just installed 9vx under Linux on my eee pc, it's a delight to be able to run 2 or 3 instances of plan 9 with no bother under Linux! I can't really run Plan 9 as my main OS at the moment, but it seems there's not a big performance hit to run it in 9vx. I want to say thanks! to Russ for

Re: [9fans] corrections to /sys/src/cmd/8l/l.h

2009-09-30 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Sep 30 00:30:19 EDT 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: At the tail end of the module there is a shorter set of #pragma varargcks that repeats the entries earlier in the file, disagreeing with one of them. The disagreeing entry matches the #pragma in /sys/src/cmd/vl/l.h so I'm not sure

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0200 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? Are there stats indicating

Re: [9fans] exiting nicely

2009-09-30 Thread erik quanstrom
I have a couple of processes working together sharing memory and using locks, and when the program finish the job and exits, the proceses in Rendez state does not exit, and i need to slay them. I'm using postnote(PNGROUP,...) call, should i write a postctl to slay the waiting proceses

Re: [9fans] iwp9-bondi

2009-09-30 Thread Jacob Todd
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:48:24PM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote: yes, i will post a link when i tidy it up. brucee On 9/30/09, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: Are any of the presentations that were at iwp9 Bondi available anywhere? I can't find anything on it other than what's on

Re: [9fans] exiting nicely

2009-09-30 Thread gdiaz
hello i think i'll do the checkexit() and doublecheck again all exiting procs unlocks all the locks they had, as the only place to check is when a proc is waiting to read from the 9p pipe: qlock(iorlock); n = read9pmsg(mfd[0], io-mdata, messagesize);

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:47:46 -0600 Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: such as the beagleboard, which are good enough to be a desktop Ethernet? My kingdom for Ethernet on one of those! Is USB Ethernet really viable? It would be nice to hear from anyone actually

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread David Leimbach
I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and close enough that most people won't notice. Personally, I'd love to be able to completely replace

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:45:17 -0700 David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and close enough that most

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread matt
I've had /bin/rc: not found twice from Qemu with clean shutdowns I run it in with -snapshot now and do manual commits (or rather, I did before I went to back to dedicated hardware) My drawterm also pops out of existence sometimes when I'm using Acme. If I restart it and open the same file,

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread matt
I've had /bin/rc: not found twice from Qemu with clean shutdowns I've also *just* had the disk go bad during the install to a qcow2 disk, at 90%+ too :( (or at least I think it went bad, I had lots of /n/newfs not found based errors) I started over with a raw disk instead

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread ron minnich
I think we owe the vx32/9vx guys some help here. So here's the question. 9vx is running. It breaks. How should we go about providing - useful diagnosis - useful backtracking There are some tools. Worst case, those of us who see it die from time to time could elect to run it under gdb for a

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Cox
Now I have to confess I can't recall how to print all the thread callback stacks when 9vx breaks, not having had to do it for a year or so but ... I'm happy to set up a gdb for it and do what commands are needed should it break. Any recommendations here Russ? thread apply all where is the gdb

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-30 Thread erik quanstrom
USB eth works well for me. I use it between my desktop PDA, both Linux machines, and have successfully (if a little slowly) dumped the PDA's 6GB micro-hard-drive over the connection. I think I measured the speed at 4Gb/s once, but that could have been limited by the PDA's drive. over a

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-30 Thread Mathieu L.
Indeed, I've just retried with the latest pull from hg and that problem is gone for me, that's brilliant. That's one less thing to worry about with 9vx, cheers for that. ☺ Mathieu ---BeginMessage--- I'm using 9vx as my primary development platform, and even though it's fantastic to have a Plan 9

Re: [9fans] acme without a heavy grid (SFW)

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Norton
Jason Catena wrote: A quick edit frees acme from its heavy grid prison, a la Tufte. https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/502901/acmenogrid.jpg Jason Catena How about no grid whatsoever (while you're at it)? There is plenty of contrast there to forego any kind of hard devisions. However, I end up

Re: [9fans] acme without a heavy grid (SFW)

2009-09-30 Thread Jason Catena
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 15:43, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: Jason Catena wrote: A quick edit frees acme from its heavy grid prison, a la Tufte. https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/502901/acmenogrid.jpg How about no grid whatsoever (while you're at it)? I believe in a subtle or invisible grid to

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:45:18 -0400 erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: USB eth works well for me. I use it between my desktop PDA, both Linux machines, and have successfully (if a little slowly) dumped the PDA's 6GB micro-hard-drive over the connection. I think I measured the

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:54:52 +0100 matt maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net wrote: I've had /bin/rc: not found twice from Qemu with clean shutdowns I've also *just* had the disk go bad during the install to a qcow2 disk, at 90%+ too :( (or at least I think it went bad, I had lots of /n/newfs not

Re: [9fans] acme without a heavy grid (SFW)

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:43:28 -0500 Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: Jason Catena wrote: A quick edit frees acme from its heavy grid prison, a la Tufte. https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/502901/acmenogrid.jpg Jason Catena How about no grid whatsoever (while you're at it)? There is

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-30 Thread lucio
USB eth works well for me. I have two oldish systems where OHCI works erratically or not at all with up to date distributions (give or take some skepticism towards replica/pull). Are there any suggestions on how to approach debugging? I can focus on that over the coming weekend. ++L

[9fans] remedial sources auth, connect, and mount in plan9port

2009-09-30 Thread Jason Catena
Geoff was kind enough to provide to me a contrib directory on sources, so I'm now trying to write into it. I can't seem to get the hang of the authorization, connection, and mount steps necessary for an authorized mount of sources in plan9port, so I can just copy files into my contrib directory.