[9fans] How to build plan9 image for raspberry pi with

2013-03-11 Thread Xinwei Hu
Hi, A newbie question here. I want to fully utilize my 8G SD, while the image provided now is about 2G only. Is there a way to customize the size of the image ? Or, even further, is there a way to extend existing filesystem online ? Thanks.

Re: [9fans] How to build plan9 image for raspberry pi with

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Veety
On Mar 11, 2013, at 9:49, Xinwei Hu hxin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A newbie question here. I want to fully utilize my 8G SD, while the image provided now is about 2G only. Is there a way to customize the size of the image ? Or, even further, is there a way to extend existing

[9fans] Giant ANTS! Advanced Namespace Tools for Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
Tanna: The people of Earth are proving resistant to Plan 9. Eros: Our namespace technology is superior. Release the Giant ANTS! Hello 9fans. Today I am making the official announcement of ANTS - Advanced Namespace Tools for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. This is a collection of software all focused on

Re: [9fans] 9vx getting root from plan9 file server

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Veety
On Mar 11, 2013, at 9:29, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Anyone succeeded in getting 9vx to take its root from a remote plan9 file server? There is a mail from RSC from 2009 but he indicates it is untested, I was just wondering if anyone got it to work and have a command like they

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread erik quanstrom
Neither have a very extensive description on their homepages. hmm. what kind of description are you expecting? - erik

[9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Kyle Laracey
Hello I've had difficulty installing the vanilla Plan9 from Bell Labs in VirtualBox / QEMU, and now I am going to try one of the forks, 9atom or 9Front, which both seem to have more hardware support / software. However, the descriptions on their homepages are brief; could someone please point

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread David du Colombier
I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking works well in virtualbox 3.1.8 using Am79C973 virtual ethernet adapter in bridged mode, chipset PIIX3 selected and Enable IO APIC turned

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread balaji
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:50 PM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking works well in virtualbox 3.1.8 using Am79C973 virtual ethernet

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:50:07 BST David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking works well in virtualbox 3.1.8 using Am79C973 virtual

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Veety
On Mar 11, 2013, at 16:36, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Note: if your host uses wifi but no ethernet, bridged adapter won't work. That's card dependent. It needs to support promisc mode AFAIK. Not all cards support it.

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:47:45 EDT Matthew Veety mve...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 16:36, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Note: if your host uses wifi but no ethernet, bridged adapter won't work. That's card dependent. It needs to support promisc mode AFAIK. Not all

[9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
The atol() manpage says: Atoi and atol recognize an optional string of tabs and spaces, then an optional sign, then a string of decimal dig- its. And yet atol(x) acts exactly like strol(x, nil, 0). This makes it unnecessarily incompatible with the unix version.

Re: [9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread Steven Stallion
from atof(2): BUGS Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI specification. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: The atol() manpage says: Atoi and atol recognize an

Re: [9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: from atof(2): BUGS Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI specification. This BUG is obviously very easy to fix but it hasn't

Re: [9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 11 18:56:04 EDT 2013, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: from atof(2): BUGS Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and hexadecimal numbers in the style of C, contrary to the ANSI

Re: [9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:55:53PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: On Mon Mar 11 18:56:04 EDT 2013, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: from atof(2): BUGS Atoi, atol, and atoll accept octal and

Re: [9fans] atol() bug

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:55:53 EDT erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Mon Mar 11 18:56:04 EDT 2013, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:44:05 PDT Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com wrote: from atof(2): BUGS Atoi, atol, and atoll accept

[9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
Hi 9fans. I think I wrote my Advanced Namespace Tools message in an unclear way. Let me try again. I have some new software for Plan 9. It is based on manipulating namespaces. The 9pcram kernel has a new bootup which lets it control multiple independent namespaces. It is the foundation for a

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread erik quanstrom
I have some new software for Plan 9. It is based on manipulating namespaces. The 9pcram kernel has a new bootup which lets it control multiple independent namespaces. It is the foundation for a this part is confusing. plan 9 has always maintained 1 independent namespace per process group.

Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front

2013-03-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Settings that work for me: It would be tres cool if this information was getting mirrored in the Wiki.

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
erik quanstrom wrote: this part is confusing. plan 9 has always maintained 1 independent namespace per process group. so i'm surethat there's more to it than this. could you go into detail on this? You are right I was using terminology loosely here. What I mean by namespace in this

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
Just a suggestion: Some motivating examples may help. Perhaps you can show 1. Initial state of the world (show with the help of a few ls) 2. A sequence of commands to change it 3. What the world looks like finally And a brief description why this would be desirable. And how it compares with

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
Bakul Shah wrote: Some motivating examples may help. Perhaps you can show 1. Initial state of the world (show with the help of a few ls) 2. A sequence of commands to change it 3. What the world looks like finally I have actually documented these things in this manner in the ANTS paper that

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:20:16 - mycrof...@sphericalharmony.com wrote: Do you think it would be helpful or welcome to re-post some of this material here on 9fans? Your explanations are ok. My guess is people don't have time or sufficient motivation to dig deeper and read your papers.