Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9

2010-04-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
What? The findroot code reads: read the code again; findroot doesn't come into play. it most certainly does! the whole point was that given -r, findroot doesn't come into play. if NINEROOT is not set, what does your version of 9vx do (without -r)?

Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9

2010-04-13 Thread EBo
What? The findroot code reads: read the code again; findroot doesn't come into play. it most certainly does! the whole point was that given -r, findroot doesn't come into play. if NINEROOT is not set, what does your version of 9vx do (without -r)? In short it fails with the

Re: [9fans] DNS... don't ask

2010-04-13 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Also, what do you make of this? svr hostname= dc1\.testdom\.test\.local._kpasswd._udp.testdom.test.local *** Error: record size incorrect (39 != 37) *** ns2.test.local can't find _kpasswd._udp.testdom.test.local: server failed The query should return an svr hostname of

Re: [9fans] DNS... don't ask

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Simon
I have not tried serving srv records fromplan9 but i do host my domain (quintile.net) from plan9, and I do use plan9 in a domain served by AD at work. I (with some help from geoff) wrote zonefresh which sucks up a domain (using axfr) and spits it out as an ndb file. This could be useful to check

[9fans] APE notes

2010-04-13 Thread tlaronde
Hello, These notes about APE could be of some use to others. Context : I'm verifying that my compilation framework, made for POSIX, is able to work for Plan9 too (for TeX and al.: everything works on Unix, so time to verify the whole thing on Plan9). Note: this is not a plea to add more.

Re: [9fans] APE notes

2010-04-13 Thread Stuart Morrow
On 4/13/10, tlaro...@polynum.com tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: - se d(1) does not support single character duplication : \{m,n\}---I Just to clarify, it's Plan9's libregexp that doesn't support {n,m} quantifiers. stuart

Re: [9fans] APE notes

2010-04-13 Thread Federico G. Benavento
check: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/ape/cmd/README ln? come on! for quick stuff when running configure some big crap that needs it fn ln { cp $1 $2 } or even better fn ln { aux/stub $2; bind $1 $2 } for egrep and fgrep I get by with: aux/stub /bin/fgrep; bind /bin/grep