Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> Each line that's read by the script causes it to fork a new process, we're not running out. even with a mere four billion odd to choose from. > I understand the Unix/Plan 9 philosophy of connecting tools that do one > job and do it well. But I don't think /bin/read and /bin/test are > places

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> The general idea here is that forking a new process is not usually > (ever?) the bottleneck, if you have a script that needs to run faster, > there's other overhead to trim first, and if you really need to, you can: > (giving up line at a time response). > > ifs=($nl) > lines=`{cat} > for($lines

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 Apr 2011, at 12:41 am, Tristan Plumb wrote: I'm also a bit stumped by the fact that rc(1) doesn't have anything analogous to bash(1)'s string parsing operations: ${foo#bar}, ${foo##bar}, ${foo%bar}, ${foo%%bar}, or ${foo/bar/baz}. I could never remember what these did, except the last on

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> (As a side note, if anyone goes into rc(1)'s source to implement any of > this, please add a "--" option (or similar) to the "echo" builtin while > you're there. Echo is not a builtin, and for one possible solution see /n/sources/contrib/lyndon/echon.c

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread Tristan Plumb
> One thing that has come to concern me about rc(1) is that read(1) is > not a "builtin" command. The general idea here is that forking a new process is not usually (ever?) the bottleneck, if you have a script that needs to run faster, there's other overhead to trim first, and if you really need t

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
Write some real world tests using bash/GNU tools, rc (with static linked versions of p9p) and tell us what happend. Maybe you will be surprised. [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:30 AM, wrote: > I'm in the process of writing some filters in rc(1).  One thing th

[9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread smiley
I'm in the process of writing some filters in rc(1). One thing that has come to concern me about rc(1) is that read(1) is not a "builtin" command. For example, with a loop like: while(message=`{read}) switch($message) { case foo dofoo case bar dobar ca

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Anthony Martin
Pavel Zholkover once said: > I'm not sure I understand the reason 9vx will fail to reserve 768mb > with brk() while my Plan 9 install on kvm+qemu with 128mb or ram works > fine, as long as it is not written to. The reason is because 9vx gives user processes a virtual address space of only 256mb.

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> The reason it doesn't work on 9vx is because the 32 bit Go runtime > reserves a large chunk of address space (currently 768mb). On all > other platforms, this is accomplised with an mmap equivalient, which > we all know won't work on Plan 9. > if i read the thread on this topic correctly, this

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Pavel Zholkover
I'm not sure I understand the reason 9vx will fail to reserve 768mb with brk() while my Plan 9 install on kvm+qemu with 128mb or ram works fine, as long as it is not written to. The -s is no longer needed, 8l generates a.out symbols correctly. Pavel On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Marti

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Anthony Martin
Anthony Martin once said: > Right now, if you want to run Go binaries on Plan 9, you have to > apply the patch at the bottom of this message. In the future we > should probably have the runtime use the segment(3) device. That should have been '9vx' instead of 'Plan 9'. Sorry. Anthony

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Anthony Martin
andrey mirtchovski once said: > cross-compilation (GOOS=plan9, GOARCH=386, link with -s), but there > are a few issues -- the build fails at crypto, so fmt is not compiled. > for a hello world you need to manually make install pkg/strconv and > pkg/reflect and pkg/fmt. Everything works fine for m

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:50:20PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote: > > A month or so ago I got the go compiler chain to build on plan9, > port is too grand a term, it was just fixing a few nits. > That makes a third version. I seem to remember Erik's version compiled clean and I have to ask Steve now

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:20:25AM -0700, Rob Pike wrote: > > I'm not sure I follow. The 6c and 6g compilers in the Go distribution > are compiled with the local compiler, such as gcc on Linux and OS X. > I don't believe it's possible they have Plan 9-specific features in > their source. I can b

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Steve Simon
A month or so ago I got the go compiler chain to build on plan9, port is too grand a term, it was just fixing a few nits. I wrote mkfiles and fixed a few minor bugs. The bigest problem was my knowledge of yacc was not sufficent to rework the error generation magic go uses from the bison based code

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Pike
I'm not sure I follow. The 6c and 6g compilers in the Go distribution are compiled with the local compiler, such as gcc on Linux and OS X. I don't believe it's possible they have Plan 9-specific features in their source. I can believe they would have problems compiling on Plan 9, but that's the i

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:43:53PM -0400, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > Does -fplan9-extensions not do that? Its in the latest gcc for gccgo... That would be great. I don't even pretend to keep track of what the GCC group does, I guess I owe you thanks for correcting me. If that's how one goes abo

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Apr 3 12:27:29 EDT 2011, skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: > Why can't we use linuxemu to run the build? > sure we could, but then you have to maintain linuxemu, and go. that seems silly. > Does -fplan9-extensions not do that? Its in the latest gcc for gccgo... what does gcc have to d

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Does -fplan9-extensions not do that? Its in the latest gcc for gccgo... On Apr 3, 2011 11:26 AM, "Lucio De Re" wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:34:28AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >> but there definately are some difficult bits. this hacked >> inclusion of stdio.h is a problem on plan 9. >>

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:49:06PM +0300, Pavel Zholkover wrote: > What about the old gcc3 port? Is it enough for bootstrapping the compilers? > On Apr 3, 2011 7:28 PM, "Skip Tavakkolian" > wrote: You'd perpetuate an alien binary format, which sounds like a bad idea to me. But I'm so muddled up

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Pavel Zholkover
What about the old gcc3 port? Is it enough for bootstrapping the compilers? On Apr 3, 2011 7:28 PM, "Skip Tavakkolian" wrote:

Re: [9fans] GSoC Widget library

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
While browsing in 9fans today I discovered that some people actually have written cool user interfaces in Plan9: http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558827311549&w=2 http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena.gif http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena2.gif On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:1

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Why can't we use linuxemu to run the build? -Skip On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:43 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> As GNU says, GNU is not Unix (or Plan 9). There is no #ifdef-free >> way to satisfy both toolchains unless one wants to pervert the Plan 9 >> toolchain. One trivial change to GCC, namely Pla

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> As GNU says, GNU is not Unix (or Plan 9). There is no #ifdef-free > way to satisfy both toolchains unless one wants to pervert the Plan 9 > toolchain. One trivial change to GCC, namely Plan 9's use of empty names > to represent unused arguments, would improve GCC greatly, but is unlikely > to b

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:34:28AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > a real solution would be one of > 0 copy u.h; hack to taste > 1 add the hacks to the real u.h > 2 come to a concensus with go about what the defined-bit-width > types should be called. change both plan 9 and go to conform. >

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:34:28AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > but there definately are some difficult bits. this hacked > inclusion of stdio.h is a problem on plan 9. > > http://code.google.com/p/go-plan9/source/diff?spec=svnd6ec95bd4f9b2e9af2d10f08d9869aa2ca49d851&r=d6ec95bd4f9b2e9af2d10f

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Lucio De Re
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:48:14PM -0700, Rob Pike wrote: > > We'll get the Plan 9 implementation up to scratch. It's not there yet, > though. Once things look solid we'll need a volunteer to set up a > builder so we can automatically make sure the Plan 9 port stays > current. > That's code for

Re: [9fans] tr2post ignores \X'anything' troff lines

2011-04-03 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 3 April 2011 13:21, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > I found that tr2post (at least on p9p) seems to discard [not process] > lines produced with \X'anything' in troff, so an input like > > hello > \X'ps: exec 1 0 0 setrgbcolor' > blabla > > results in output *without* the setrgbcolor lin

[9fans] tr2post ignores \X'anything' troff lines

2011-04-03 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello 9fans, I found that tr2post (at least on p9p) seems to discard [not process] lines produced with \X'anything' in troff, so an input like hello \X'ps: exec 1 0 0 setrgbcolor' blabla results in output *without* the setrgbcolor line. (using lines like this one can achieve coloured .ps, in thi

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> Could you comment on your changes at http://code.google.com/p/go-plan9/ ? > Can they be pushed to mainline ? i don't think they can in total. we should push the silly print format fixes and the added USED() that 8c caught and gcc didn't. but there definately are some difficult bits. this hack

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Pavel Zholkover
On Apr 3, 2011 12:18 PM, "erik quanstrom" wrote: > okay, i volunteer. just to make sure, we're talking > about a plan 9 port, not a cross compile? > > just let me know what i need to get set up. i can > easily do 386 and arm at this point. > > - erik > I think Rob meant it would be a cross compi

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Apr 2 22:49:25 EDT 2011, robp...@gmail.com wrote: > We'll get the Plan 9 implementation up to scratch. It's not there yet, > though. Once things look solid we'll need a volunteer to set up a > builder so we can automatically make sure the Plan 9 port stays > current. okay, i volunteer. j

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Pavel Zholkover
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:52 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > So wait... We can get the toolchain built on plan 9. Or we can target plan 9 > via cross compiler?  Either way is pretty awesome!  Nice work! We are cross-compiling unless someone syncs http://code.google.com/p/go-plan9/ with mainline. Pav

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread andrey mirtchovski
my paatch is not correct. i've "fixed" it here, but i'd love to be able to get a gotest binary to run on plan9 to make sure my fix is right. On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Pavel Zholkover wrote: > I've set up a Mercurial patch queue with some instructions on building > at https://bitbucket.org/p

Re: [9fans] Go Plan 9

2011-04-03 Thread Pavel Zholkover
I've set up a Mercurial patch queue with some instructions on building at https://bitbucket.org/paulzhol/golang-plan9-runtime-patches/ with Andrey and Taru's patches. I'll try to keep it updated :) Pavel