Re: [9fans] Encrypting file systems

2011-03-30 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:42:06PM +, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: Hello, Back in 2009, someone on this list posted about encrypting /usr on a Plan 9 laptop they had. Does anyone know how to encrypt a file system on Plan 9? (I'm talking about encrypting the storage on disk, not just

Re: [9fans] streams

2011-02-21 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:53:30PM +0100, Nemo wrote: i reply myself; i think they use sst to mix multimedia streams, and in that case a lost packet in one stream (say text) would delay other streams (say audio) that do not need to be delayed if you use sst. But otherwise I still think

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2010-03-08 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:22:25PM -0500, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: usb has advanced a little; we can see usb devices now but attempts to read or write them hang. I don't know of progress on flash access or anything else. in the inferno port i've been able to access the nand flash:

Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions

2009-12-07 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 08:24:45AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: ps. if you wanted to hide this ugliness of passing a buffer and fd to a child process instead of just passing an fd, you could still solve it in userland without a syscall. Write a library that does buffered IO. Include unget() if

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-07 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:50:18PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: I'd like to have a hack session the wed. morning before IWP9. What I'd like to propose is a sheeva plugfest. People commit to bringing a plug and we get them set up to run Plan 9. Any interest? inferno might be a good target

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-17 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:50:42AM -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: Suggestions (model, company, etc.) welcome. Although, this thing can do photoscanning, copying, and faxing. I make great use of the former two, along with printing (of course).

Re: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry

2009-07-19 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: perhaps i've been asleep at the swtch, but i don't recall seing writes on closed channels terminate programs with a note. sys: write on closed pipe mainly to kill off a pipeline when the thing at the end has finished. i

Re: [9fans] channels across machines

2009-07-18 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 06:25:19AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: i think the general idea is that if you want to do this between arbitrary machines, you provide a 9p interface. you can think of 9p as a channel with a predefined set of messages. acme does this. kernel devices do this.

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-18 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:54:34AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: as an old example, i think that the lab's use of worm storage for the main file server was incredibly insightful. what could we do today, but don't quite dare? stop writing all programs in C, and start writing them in a

Re: [9fans] security questions

2009-04-17 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:29:47AM +0100, Steve Simon wrote: I am interested in the idea of adding some kind of resource limits to plan9. If they existsed I would probably open it up to external users, however different things would worry me: CPU use Implement the Fair share scheduler

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0500, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: Again, that's not to say that there aren't other valid motivators for some centralized functionality. It's just that in my opinion, we're at the point were if it's raw cycles we need, we'll have to be looking at a large

Re: [9fans] exportfs security question

2009-04-10 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:48:54AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: We haven't brought up SSL yet, so Eve can read our exchanged random numbers... now these values get shoved into SHA-1 (along with the 56 bits of entropy from Kn derived from p9any authentication) before being used to make the

Re: [9fans] plan9port openbsd 4.4

2009-01-29 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:01:55PM -0500, Anthony Sorace wrote: if you want to work on it some, this message talks about getting inferno working on OpenBSD using the rthreads library (the pending replacement for the userland threads russ talked about):

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

2008-11-08 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:16:39PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:15 AM, John Barham wrote: It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard. that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel. Even as a potential substitute for ftp webdav is a farce. Speaking from