[9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread ron minnich
I'm having an issue with replica on 9vx. I keep getting files like this: d-2 tc staff4096 Oct 4 05:38 bibtex/ d-2 tc staff4096 Oct 4 05:38 bin/ strace shows this: 13293 mkdir(/mnt/sdb1/tc/plan9/9vx-0.12/sys/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst, 0) = -1

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread Sam Watkins
I wrote: I don't see how this can be fixed in unix without breaking umpteen million shell scripts. On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 06:12:15AM +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: By creating new commands with distinct new names. I thought of a better way. We can fix the commands without breaking

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread lucio
What do you think of this proposal? I think the saying is the game is not worth the candle. I doubt anyone should invest the time and effort to implement this, specially as few will adopt its use. Of course, fifty years from now everyone would be savvy to it, but by then one expects a

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread Charles Forsyth
cat - cat /fd/0

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread lucio
cat - cat /fd/0 cat :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread Richard Miller
`--' ends options, forces consistent multi-file mode, allows empty lists Hey, yeah, great idea. And why not use '---' to force switching to Linux compatible mode, and '' to switch to BSD syntax, and '-' for System V syntax (5 hyphens, System 5, easy to remember). Oh, and we might

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-04 Thread sqweek
2009/10/4 Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net: I wrote: I don't see how this can be fixed in unix without breaking umpteen million shell scripts. On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 06:12:15AM +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: By creating new commands with distinct new names. I thought of a better way.  We can

[9fans] VESA issue on VIA EPIA SN18000G

2009-10-04 Thread Jerome Ibanes
9fans, I'm using a VIA SN18000G booting off a fileserver, everything seems to be working relatively well, however it seems that the video card is not recognized. My 'pci -bv' and 'vga -lvp' are as follows: cpu% pci -bv 0.0.5: --- 08.00.20 1106/5364 0 VIA Technology 0.15.0: disk

Re: [9fans] VESA issue on VIA EPIA SN18000G

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
Is there any way to force this card to use the VESA driver? Please note that I'm booting using *norealmode= in my plan9.ini. VESA requires realmode. - erik

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
13293 mkdir(/mnt/sdb1/tc/plan9/9vx-0.12/sys/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst, 0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) perhaps replica is expecting specific error messages and they're not getting translated ; cd /n/sources/plan9/`{pwd} ; g strstr applylog.c:161: if(strstr(buf, entry not found) ||

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:22 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: 13293 mkdir(/mnt/sdb1/tc/plan9/9vx-0.12/sys/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst, 0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) perhaps replica is expecting specific error messages and they're not getting translated ; cd

[9fans] /sys/src/9/ip/ip.h

2009-10-04 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
perhaps the elimination of all traces of IL is a little too thorough? it seems easier to leave Logil, Logilmsg in place rather than require an extra (periodic) merge. one can't get by simply with bind before/after.

Re: [9fans] /sys/src/9/ip/ip.h

2009-10-04 Thread Steve Simon
perhaps the elimination of all traces of IL is a little too thorough? I see no real harm in IL but, just a suggestion, you could do a pull -s, and then use diff3 (in my contrib) to do a merge between ip.h.orig, yesterday(1)'s version and the newly pulled code. having said this I still have it

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread Steve Simon
I don't see this explaining a mkdir with mode of 0 however. Does the file/dir actually have a mode of zero on the source machine? Plan9 can happily create an object with mode zero but a posix emulation of wstat() must do the rename()/chmod()/chown()/chgrp() etc in a fixed order which is bound

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
Plan9 can happily create an object with mode zero but a posix emulation of wstat() must do the rename()/chmod()/chown()/chgrp() etc in a fixed order which is bound to make some combinations mutually exclusive. i'd be willing to bet that posix doesn't guarentee anything even with the

Re: [9fans] /sys/src/9/ip/ip.h

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Oct 4 12:47:55 EDT 2009, 9...@9netics.com wrote: perhaps the elimination of all traces of IL is a little too thorough? it seems easier to leave Logil, Logilmsg in place rather than require an extra (periodic) merge. one can't get by simply with bind before/after. +1. i haven't done

[9fans] iwp9 final paper versions, wip submission deadline

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
just a friendly schedule reminder - wip are due tomorrow 5. oct 2009 at 21:00 gmt. this can't be extended, but this doesn't need to be a final draft. the program this year is pretty full, so if you'd like to talk about what you've been working on, you'll have the best chance if you submit a wip

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I don't see this explaining a mkdir with mode of 0 however. Does the file/dir actually have a mode of zero on the source machine? no, it has mode 755 This is for the tex install but the problem exists in general when

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Xen -- Follow up on previous 9fans topic

2009-10-04 Thread Andreas Eriksen
The kernel did not compile against the most recent sources. I've fixed this so it compiles again with current kernel source. Haven't tried booting it on anything, though. I successfully compiled against Xen 3.4.1 and tried to boot it on XenServer 5.0r3, but unfortunately it failed with

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Xen -- Follow up on previous 9fans topic

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
Now I may be way off here, but I though that perhaps the tab character in front of VIRT_BASE here may cause it to not be recognized by xenelf. I joined it into one line, and I am rewarded with a different error message: xc_dom_alloc_segment: segment start isn't page aligned. I

[9fans] VESA issue on VIA EPIA SN18000G

2009-10-04 Thread Jerome Ibanes
9fans, VESA requires realmode. Thank you Erik, it was an oversight from my part. I was able to start rio in 1024x768x8 and 1280x1024x8 using the VESA driver, however, the keyboard was not working, and the pointer had no cursor. Please note, that, while the pointer had no cursor, the mouse was

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Xen -- Follow up on previous 9fans topic

2009-10-04 Thread Andreas Eriksen
Now I may be way off here, but I though that perhaps the tab character in front of VIRT_BASE here may cause it to not be recognized by xenelf. I joined it into one line, and I am rewarded with a different error message: xc_dom_alloc_segment: segment start isn't page aligned. I really don't

Re: [9fans] VESA issue on VIA EPIA SN18000G

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
VESA requires realmode. Thank you Erik, it was an oversight from my part. I was able to start rio in 1024x768x8 and 1280x1024x8 using the VESA driver, however, the keyboard was not working, and the pointer had no cursor. VESA also requires *nomp=1 in your plan9.ini. i have seen the

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:15 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I don't see this explaining a mkdir with mode of 0 however. Does the file/dir actually have a mode of zero on the source machine? no, it has mode 755

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread ron minnich
seems to be a bug in replica on 9vx? I'll look more tomorrow. mkdir /sys/lib/texmf perm -200 mkdir /sys/lib/texmf/bibtex perm -200 mkdir /sys/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst perm -200 mkdir /sys/lib/texmf/bibtex/bst/base perm -200 mkdir

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-04 Thread YAMANASHI Takeshi
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Skip Tavakkolian 9...@9netics.com wrote: the installation completed but it is unable to get past fossil startup; Do you have the CD-ROM drive attached to the VM while you boot it? I remember Plan 9 didn't start when you have an empty CD-ROM drive connected to

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-04 Thread erik quanstrom
Do you have the CD-ROM drive attached to the VM while you boot it? I remember Plan 9 didn't start when you have an empty CD-ROM drive connected to the VM on ESX 3.5. So I removed the CD-ROM drive from VM's if this is the case, it seems simple enough to fix. can anyone confirm? - erik