Re: [9fans] Any material on processes?

2023-06-16 Thread unobe
Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com: > I want to look into process management and how a scheduler works and thing > like that, but all I can find is inter-process communication with 9P and the > rest is all just file systems. Any help? Have you tried looking through the manual pages (e.g., 'lookman

Re: [9fans] How do I build from source on linux?

2023-06-15 Thread unobe
Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com: > How do I export the files from Linux to qemu? "the files"--what files are you talking about? Anything on your Linux host can be "exported" via drawterm. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] How do I build from source on linux?

2023-06-15 Thread unobe
Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com: > Well i wanted to do things on Linux since i don't find the environment nice > at all on 9front and would want to make my life easier by doing it on Linux. > Turns out not. You could download drawterm (and even use the -G option) to get a simple command line using

Re: [9fans] How do I build from source on linux?

2023-06-15 Thread unobe
Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com: > I run 9front with QEMU and i want to make some changes to it from source and > than build it and run it on qemu. How do I build it on linux with no mk? Why build it on linux? What's your motiviation for building an entire OS using the linux toolchain? If you posted

Re: [9fans] Prompt for wpapsk during wifi boot

2023-06-14 Thread unobe
Quoth Luis : > While that looks promising, does this work when booting over wifi to a > remote fileserver? In the example the T420s boots to its local disk, > loading lib/profile and therewith bin/rc/initwifi. Loading these > scripts from the fileserver would however require already having a >

Re: [9fans] Prompt for wpapsk during wifi boot

2023-06-14 Thread unobe
Quoth 9johansen via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > I’ve had issues with wifi in the past and normally just end up following this > approach:  > https://9lab.org/plan9/thinkpad-t420s/.  It works well and allows the > selection of different essid/network upon boot.  Igor does great work. So

Re: [9fans] Any interesting topics?

2023-06-14 Thread unobe
Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com: > I wanna make some kind of a research on plan9/9front for fun but can't seem > to find what topics are interesting these days and what are some flaws that i > can investigate or something like that? Thanks in advance! Look at the previous GSOC possibilities. Is that

Re: [9fans] Prompt for wpapsk during wifi boot

2023-06-14 Thread unobe
Quoth Luis : > On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 10:30 -0400, Stanley Lieber wrote: > > not sure what other problems there may be, but make sure essid > > appears on the same line as ether0. > > > > sl > > Ok, Thanks. The Problem does persist with essid= on the same line as > ether0=. I recall having

Re: [9fans] Adjust Thinkpad Screen Brightness

2023-06-09 Thread unobe
Perhaps look at 'man 8 cpurc'. Quoth zxcdew...@gmail.com: > Hi, > A newbie question:  how do I automate this so it runs automatically after > boot up? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Adjust Thinkpad Screen Brightness

2023-06-08 Thread unobe
Note the patch is for both the Ivy Bridge listed devices, but mine specifically is 8086/0166. I'm curious if there's someone with 0152. Quoth un...@cpan.org: > Quoth Anthony Martin : > > un...@cpan.org once said: > > > I reviewed the data sheet and the scripts should > > > work, but does not. >

Re: [9fans] Adjust Thinkpad Screen Brightness

2023-06-07 Thread unobe
Quoth mkf9 : > likely x230's coreboot mises something, as brightness buttons doesn't > work either on 9front, while they do work with stock bios. Confirmed on my x230 as well--the scripts do not work. But for me, if I press the 'fn' key and then the brightness buttons, they do indeed work. I

Re: [9fans] RUDP and/or others

2023-05-10 Thread unobe
Quoth Romano : > References: > > Subject: RUDP and/or others > > I know this is from a thread almost 8 years old on 9fans. > > I'm ignorant of why RUDP wasn't used in lieu of TCP for 9P > connections. Anyone know the whys and wherefores (either technical, > historical, or political)? I had

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-08-19 Thread unobe
Quoth Jack Johnson : > Anyone know if this project went anywhere? > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf > > A Hellaphone revisit. Maybe e-mail davide+reception...@cs.cmu.edu , since it's one of his lectures? -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

2021-08-19 Thread unobe
Quoth un...@cpan.org: > Quoth Maurizio Boriani : > > thanks a lot! But... what's csearch? > > Possibly https://manpages.debian.org/testing/codesearch/csearch.1.en.html Igonre--the other post, mentioning the go package is more likely. -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

2021-08-19 Thread unobe
Quoth Maurizio Boriani : > > Rob Pike writes: > > > % cat bin/cf > > #!/bin/sh > > > > csearch -n -f '\.go$' '^func (\([^)]+\) )?'$1'\(' > > thanks a lot! But... what's csearch? Possibly https://manpages.debian.org/testing/codesearch/csearch.1.en.html

Git & Conventional Browsers (Was Re: [9fans] Software philosophy)

2021-08-19 Thread unobe
Quoth Lucio De Re : > A transparent history of decisions in this matter would prevent losing > any interesting proposals - yes, we need better than Git, but Git is > painfully "enough" to start with, even if as I get more familiar with > Git I'm starting to believe, hopefully wrongly, that Plan 9

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread unobe
Quoth hiro <23h...@gmail.com>: > > Foundation and 9front can work to figure out how to make it so there's > > one distribution. > > For 9front this doesn't matter so much. We do not have a problem with > there being multiple (sometimes experimental) distributions. For > non-experimental things

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread unobe
Quoth Philip Silva via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > I wonder if this could be copied from how plan9port behaves on macOS for > instance. Using a single tap and then toggling/chording using alt and command > keys. Maybe on a multi-touch input the distance of the 2nd and 3rd finger > could help to

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-23 Thread unobe
Quoth Lucio De Re : > On 6/24/21, Romano wrote: > > [...] But I'm a nobody, so I'm probably not going to persuade > > anyone. > > > Let me try and keep this short, but it won't be easy. > > Firstly, this is not intended as an offence, particularly against > Romano, it is merely an alert against

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-23 Thread unobe
Quoth hiro <23h...@gmail.com>: > i think it would help many new potential users if 9front was at least > mentioned (maybe near the link to 9legacy) To begin with, I only run 9front, a fork of Plan 9. In my experience it's just enough different from Plan 9 from Bell Labs that it cannot be grouped

Re: [9fans] non-interruptible temporary: why do we care?

2021-06-16 Thread unobe
Quoth Anthony Martin : > There is nothing new under the sun. > > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:10:20 -0400 > From: Russ Cox > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9f...@cse.psu.edu> > Subject: Re: [9fans] 'non-interruptable temporary' warning > Message-ID:

Re: [9fans] non-interruptible temporary: why do we care?

2021-06-16 Thread unobe
Quoth o...@eigenstate.org: > Our compilers will sometimes produce a warning about > a non-interruptible temporary: > ... > Why do we warn about non-interruptible > temporaries? What issues am I missing? Silence to this question means no one knows, right?