Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
i have a little program, aux/cpuid perhaps this would be better in /dev/cons/cpuid ? just my 2ยข -Steve

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread Charles Forsyth
perhaps this would be better in /dev/cons/cpuid ? doppio% ls '#P' '#P/archctl' '#P/cputype' '#P/ioalloc' '#P/iob' '#P/iol' '#P/iow' '#P/irqalloc' '#P/realmode' '#P/realmodemem' doppio% cat '#P/cputype' AMD64 1802 doppio% cat '#P/archctl' cpu AMD64 1802 pge pge on coherence mb586 cmpswap

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-25 Thread maht
On 25/01/2010 01:45, Akshat Kumar wrote: what are some suggested ways to copy just the rest of the file, without starting all over? dd

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

2010-01-25 Thread maht
On 23/01/2010 19:01, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Maybe it only happens once in 1000 times, but in that 0.1% of the time, my finger coming down on the return key accidentally hits the up arrow and the timing just so happens that I rerun the previous command instead of the one I just typed, sometimes

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
doppio% cat '#P/archctl' Isn't archctl more concerned with things specifically of interest to the kernel vm system? That was always my impression. Adding CPUID related output to #P/cputype seems more logical.

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jan 25 10:00:19 EST 2010, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: i have a little program, aux/cpuid, that gets cpuid information for x86 processors. clearly it's not going to run on an arm or mips. is there a standard trick for preventing such a program from being built (and failing)? the

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jan 25 12:03:08 EST 2010, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: perhaps this would be better in /dev/cons/cpuid ? i don't think so. doppio% cat '#P/cputype' AMD64 1802 doppio% cat '#P/archctl' cpu AMD64 1802 pge pge on coherence mb586 cmpswap cmpswap486 i8253set on none of that was

Re: [9fans] p9p funny

2010-01-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 29 Dec 2009, at 11:53 pm, erik quanstrom wrote: i'm getting spurious echo in 9term on average about 2/3 of the time. this example sees the spurious echo every time. programs like bash that eat cooked input don't seem to suffer the same fate. Yes, on both OS X and Linux. I find I'm most

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
x86 assembly doesn't often assemble with an arm assembler. :-) Oh come on. Everything you need to make this work is already there.

Re: [9fans] arch specific executables

2010-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jan 25 13:11:49 EST 2010, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:54 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: ; aux/cpuid -v AuthenticAMD ; aux/cpuid -b AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ ; aux/cpuid -s 00060fb2 0f.6b.02 ; 8.cpuid -n

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 13 Jan 2010, at 4:23 pm, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: i think you misunderstand the problem. cookiefs' fs interface is not the issue. cookiefs' robustness when storing the cookies on the fileserver in the face of multiple concurrently running

Re: [9fans] vms

2010-01-25 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 7:12 am, Jeff Sickel wrote: there's not a single searchable site that provides a quick reference release that would give us inroads to all the /other/ operating systems available these

Re: [9fans] Are we ready for DNSSEC ?

2010-01-25 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Tim Newsham wrote: dns is a non-issue if the rest of ssl is working. dns is irrelevant if it isn't. Except when SSL has chinks in its armor. Like incidents of certificate authorities being convinced to give out certs for domains that don't belong to the requestor.

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jan 25 15:15:42 EST 2010, eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 13 Jan 2010, at 4:23 pm, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: i think you misunderstand the problem. cookiefs' fs interface is not the issue. cookiefs' robustness when storing the cookies