I don't want to imply that Ron is quite such an old fart as me, but
somehow I don't get the impression that he was a kid in 1981, when
"Time Bandits" came out. Ron, if you could give some clue as to when
you saw the movie, I'm pretty sure that the group could mount a
co-ordinated effort to identify
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish I could remember. It had the usual guys in silvery suits. They
> walk through a frame and are back in time. Key point was, at the end,
> that they ended up escaping but for reasons unknown, walking back
> through the frame -- bad idea.
Time bandit
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 07:16, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A thought ...
>
> Shared libraries do 2 possibly useful things:
> 1) save space
> 2) stop you having to re-link when a new library is released.
i can see how relinks are painful with gnu-style build systems where
you need to run ./configu
[I believe we should go off-line if you're interested in continuing this
discussion, since it has very little to do with plan9port at this point.
I'll reply to the portion that has relevance on the list here, and will
reply to the rest of your email privately]
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 01:15 +0100, En
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 01:15 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > >Besides the fact that I'm not making binary packages at all,
> > >splitted / small sources make packaging a lot easier.
> >
> > So let me get this straight: you're trying to s
A thought ...
Shared libraries do 2 possibly useful things:
1) save space
2) stop you having to re-link when a new library is released.
Now 2) doesn't really happen anyway, due to .so versioning hell,
so we're left with 1) ...
I can run Plan 9 quite nicely in 128 MB of RAM. In the same amount
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> when somebody tries to stop a process that is waiting for the IO the process
> doesn't get transferred to a Stopped state immediately but only when
> the scheduler sees it for the first time. This leads to a pro
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:55 -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> Is there any way I can poke the target process so that it gets attention
> from the scheduler an can be put in a Stopped state?
I know, I know we all don't like those guys who talk to themselves
on mailing lists replying to their own em
> in particular, i'd like to be able to use factotum to hold my keys.
>
> btw, i recently added a 2k rsa key for ssh to my secstore. now
> my factotum (in 9vx on OS X) periodically crashes. when it
> happens, it's always after i ssh using the key. anyone seen
> anything similar, or alternately hav
in particular, i'd like to be able to use factotum to hold my keys.
btw, i recently added a 2k rsa key for ssh to my secstore. now
my factotum (in 9vx on OS X) periodically crashes. when it
happens, it's always after i ssh using the key. anyone seen
anything similar, or alternately have success wi
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is a TODO page on the wiki which might give you some ideas.
>>
>> The two pieces of unfinished business that spring to my mind
>> are the Centrino driver and the ssh V2 client, both started by
>> Russ.
>
> contrib/i
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a TODO page on the wiki which might give you some ideas.
>
> The two pieces of unfinished business that spring to my mind
> are the Centrino driver and the ssh V2 client, both started by
> Russ.
contrib/install fgb/
There is a TODO page on the wiki which might give you some ideas.
The two pieces of unfinished business that spring to my mind
are the Centrino driver and the ssh V2 client, both started by
Russ.
These have the advantage of being started by a very talented
programmer so you could learn from the e
> > > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading
> > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing
> > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
> > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
> > > externally
> > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading
> > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing
> > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
> > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
> > externally using a di
Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading
on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing
that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
externally using a different kind of IPC
> Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading
> on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing
> that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
> constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
> externally using a different ki
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:03 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > what is the point of reading /proc/n/ note for anything but a
> > stopped/borken process?
>
> or a process already in a note handler?
Could you elaborate, please? Do you mean that if the process
enters its note handler, then the sure fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A thought ...
Shared libraries do 2 possibly useful things:
1) save space
2) stop you having to re-link when a new library is released.
Now 2) doesn't really happen anyway, due to .so versioning hell,
so we're left with 1) ...
I know it's kind-of hacky and unstructured
> It's the ACPI Secure Computing Initiative: fixed input format == no
> buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Long live Herman Hollerith!
>
if bios wants to own the os, using buffer overflow in acpi
seems like more effort than necessary.
- erik
It's the ACPI Secure Computing Initiative: fixed input format == no
buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Long live Herman Hollerith!
ron minnich wrote:
> This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this
> signature must contain a trailing
> blank character.)"
>
> So where do we get the
As the subject says, punched cards. Except it was a '40'X on the 360.
On Nov 3, 2008, at 7:06 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this
signature must contain a trailing
blank character.)"
So where do we get the guys who design this stuff? Can we
> I've been experimenting with how Plan 9 handles notes for processes and
> I must confess that I'm now confused and in need your help.
>
> First of all, the proc(3) man page says that "A read [from /proc/n/
> note] of at least ERRLEN
> characters will retrieve the oldest note posted to the proce
A thought ...
Shared libraries do 2 possibly useful things:
1) save space
2) stop you having to re-link when a new library is released.
Now 2) doesn't really happen anyway, due to .so versioning hell,
so we're left with 1) ...
I know it's kind-of hacky and unstructured (how do you know the vent
> m trying to export a namespace from my file server (that is a
> namespace's bootes) to my terminal (logging as a client), i tried to
> do:
> servname% exportfs -a -r /tmp (from file server)
> but i have this error:
> exportfs: auth_proxy: auth_proxy write fd: inappropriate use of fd
> before doi
> hi all,
>
> I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been
> ported yet and is of high priority.
> Please suggest me !
how about ati driver with decent hw acceleration? the documents
can be found on this page
http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx
> hi all,
>
> I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been
> ported yet and is of high priority.
> Please suggest me !
>
> Thanks
>
how about a device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices like madwifi
http://madwifi.org
;-)
y0shi
> This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this
> signature must contain a trailing
> blank character.)"
>
> So where do we get the guys who design this stuff? Can we send them
> back? Or put them in an infinite loop in a time machine (oh wait see
> the subject).
i think it's a tra
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Siddharth Prakash Singh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been
> ported yet and is of high priority.
> Please suggest me !
I think support for more wireless network cards was mentioned in the past.
Or perhaps
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On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote:
hi all,
I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been
ported yet and is of high priority.
Please suggest me !
Thanks
the program is...?
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Hi All,
I'm trying to export a namespace from my file server (that is a
namespace's bootes) to my terminal (logging as a client), i tried to
do:
servname% exportfs -a -r /tmp (from file server)
but i have this error:
exportfs: auth_proxy: auth_proxy write fd: inappropriate use of fd
before doing t
hi all,
I want to port some program or driver to plan9 which has not been
ported yet and is of high priority.
Please suggest me !
Thanks
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