[9fans] patch/create problem (error?)

2008-09-12 Thread Antonin Vecera
Hello all, I had problem to create a patch - the command didn't finish for long long time. I tried to do it manualy step by step from command line and it seems that the problem is with cp command. This is method how to repeat it: I have in my home dir prepared new version of tftpd.c ls -l

Re: [9fans] patch/create problem (error?)

2008-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
I had problem to create a patch - the command didn't finish for long long time. I created a patch yesterday and it worked fine. It is fairly slow as it diff's all the files you have changed with those on sources. Sadly the 9p protocol is quite badly effected by high (intercontinential)

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
Neither purposeful omission nor amnesia. Rather pragmatism. Nachos, ReactOS, QNX, and many others are left unmentioned, too. From these QNX has been _really_ successful in the real world and it's fully POSIX. MOS is a book for teaching the natural way to students not the (fruitless) deviation

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition doesn't mention it, but it's the MINIX (ah, MINIX 3) book anyway. Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition contains not even a reference. Computer Networks, 4th Edition doesn't mention 9P at all--RPC's there, though. Cool! --On Friday,

Re: [9fans] patch/create problem (error?)

2008-09-12 Thread Antonin Vecera
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:47 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problem to create a patch - the command didn't finish for long long time. I created a patch yesterday and it worked fine. It is fairly slow as it diff's all the files you have changed with those on sources.

Re: [9fans] patch/create problem (error?)

2008-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
Anyway, does 9P and Plan9 know about path MTU discovery? traditional path mtu uses icmp messages. if your router/modem/whatever eats icmp, you're outta luck with these traditional methods. cf. http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html i think there are some tricks to get around the missing icmp

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Sep 12, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: completely 'unencumbered' by POSIX. s/completely/almost / Pietro

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
s/completely/almost / Please don't try to educate me P. G. Microsoft got themselves into lots of trouble to make NT almost POSIX compliant and to also create a fully POSIX compliant subsystem (SFU/SUA/Interix). Everybody knows that. The sentence you quoted was a hypothetical, you know, a

[9fans] Eris keen on anything

2008-09-12 Thread fgergo
Would you please move?

[9fans] cin is in

2008-09-12 Thread Bruce Ellis
I don't know how you get the source but it is a cool program. It can simulate itself simulating itself simulating another program. Lotsa cool stuff. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=107172.107190coll=GUIDEdl=GUIDE brucee