Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-13 Thread gdiaz
Hola, Hiding the details of the underlying resources is one of the functions/features of the OS, isn't it? slds. gabi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you of course know that the big difference in unix and other systems of the day was that files did not have type. this allowed a tools-based

Re: [9fans] 9grid

2008-11-13 Thread erik quanstrom
I did it and it works, but do you have any idea why i can do it from file server as bootes but not from terminal as armando? there's probablly something wrong in your authentication setup. fs name% cpu -h NODE -c 'name=(equal sign)cat ''#c/sysname''; echo' cpu -h node -c 'name=`{cat

Re: [9fans] 9grid

2008-11-13 Thread lupin636
Thanks a lot Eric, I did it and it works, but do you have any idea why i can do it from file server as bootes but not from terminal as armando? Furthermore, i would like to put that line into a variable, by doing (maybe in a wrong way): fs name% cpu -h NODE -c 'name=(equal sign)cat

Re: [9fans] look, ma, linux's discovered fossil + venti

2008-11-13 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:33 AM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they have funny names for it all. and they're missing the worm part. http://lwn.net/Articles/305740/ - erik I found this amusing: 'Every operation on an object must be accompanied by a capability, a

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-13 Thread Iruata Souza
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:17 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that type of types. I gave an example (which Charles Forsyth found to be a bad one) to set the types of types apart. I mean types as in named pipes (special files) versus regular files. In my experience which is

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-13 Thread sqweek
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Eris Discordia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, thank you so much, sqweek. When someone on 9fans tries to put things in terms of basic abstract ideas instead of technical ones I really appreciate it--I actually learn something. Welcome, but don't mistake

Re: [9fans] 9grid

2008-11-13 Thread lupin636
Thanks again Eric.. It works, sorry but i'm newbie in shell ;-) About the authentication problem, i checked /sys/log/auth, and i noticed that there are some lines with no speaks for,like this: fs name nov 13 18:50:09 tr-fail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NODE ip address) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] no speaks for fs

Re: [9fans] 9grid

2008-11-13 Thread andrey mirtchovski
could it be that the equals sign (=) you typed in /lib/ndb/auth is not the normal equals sign (ascii 3d) but the equal sign of another encoding? that could be the reason why your /lib/ndb/auth can't be pasted properly in an email and can't be parsed correctly by tokenize().

Re: [9fans] 9grid

2008-11-13 Thread erik quanstrom
could it be that the equals sign (=) you typed in /lib/ndb/auth is not the normal equals sign (ascii 3d) but the equal sign of another encoding? that could be the reason why your /lib/ndb/auth can't be pasted properly in an email and can't be parsed correctly by tokenize(). easy test.

[9fans] tra, unison, mercurial

2008-11-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello! is there 'tra' available for plan9? is there any reason to use 'unison' instead (e.g. on linux, where both programs are available)? is there mercurial in a good shape? Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] Amazon EC2?

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Miller
I thought I read they were using Xen? What's the relationship between kexec and Xen? Kexec is a system call which linux uses to load and execute another kernel. Kexec has to be work differently under xen, because it's loading into xen virtual memory not physical memory; but this is supported

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Dan Cross wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stat(5) specifies exclusive-access files, which we do use for locking. In what sense is that not `doing locking'? It's not POSIX byte-range read- or write-locking per fcntl, but it's not