Re: [9fans] Acme and Git

[Sigrid Haflinadóttir]

"X e" works just as well for me.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Steve Simon  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a sam user who uses subversion (via a substandard OS).
>
> when I do an update I always do 'X/./e' to re-read all files - bit of a
> sledgehammer
> but at least it stops me getting quite so angry at svn.
>
> -Steve
>
>

Re: [9fans] Partition problems

[Sigrid Haflinadóttir]

He didn't ask about 9front.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Iruatã Souza  wrote:

> 9front solved that 5 years ago.
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:20 AM,   wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:07:03PM +, Steve Simon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I run a modified labs kernel with a few bits of 9atom to support my atom
> >> Motherboard.
> >>
> >> I have added an ssd to the mirrored disks in my plan9 server.
> >> The initialisation of devfs fails without a helpful error message
> (something I will sort out)
> >>
> >> However the source of the problem seems to be boot/parts.c which fails
> to instantiate the last partition on my disks. This causes devfs to give up
> rather than continuing to retry other partitions. My kernel then cannot
> find its venti partition and dies with a panic.
> >>
> >> If I boot using a different partition structure I can bring up the
> machine, and see that this one partition is indeed missing.
> >>
> >> If I run disk/prep on the disk and rewrite the partition table
> unchanged, the missing partition appears.
> >>
> >> Anyone seen problems with the partition table generation code in
> boot/part.c?
> >> If not I will keep digging but I thought it was worth asking.
> >
> > I had a problem (and still have) with the plan9 program because the code
> > rewrites the whole partition entry, recomputing the values of the start
> > and so on even with partitions "untouched" rendering the machine
> > unbootable because the starting block was not the correct one.
> >
> > I have never found neither the time nor the incentive to correct this
> > part.
> >
> > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem at hand.
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Thierry Laronde 
> >  http://www.kergis.com/
> > Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89  250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
> >
>
>

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

[Sigrid Haflinadóttir]

How do I register on GitLab though? It tries to show me a captcha, but it
seems mothra doesn't support it! What do I do???

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Kurt H Maier  wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:19:13PM -0500, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/19/2016 05:27 PM, David Arnold wrote:
> > > On 17 Nov 2016, at 12:18, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:55:38PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote:
> > >
> > >>> Also does anyone want to host the source tree in a repository?
> > >>
> > >> This sounds like a lot of work.  Who would undertake this??
> > >
> > > GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket all provide gratis repository hosting for
> Git and/or Mercurial.  If one of those were adopted, the work involved for
> ongoing maintenance is minimal.
> >
> > We use gitlab on our team for both repos and task management. I'd be
> > happy to create and maintain a group for Plan9.
> >
> > In fact while I was thinking about it I just did. It's at
> > https://gitlab.com/nine-continent
>
>
> Very kind!  Where can I download your Plan 9 git client?
>
> khm
>
>

Re: [9fans] libtask

[Sigrid Haflinadóttir]

https://github.com/ftrvxmtrx/c9
That one I wrote specifically for highly constrained environments. That's
also the reason it has no memory allocation nor higher level API. Sorry,
there are no examples that are open-source.
Hopefully someone will find it useful.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Stanley Lieber  wrote:

> Steve Simon  wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am using libtask on an embedded system with great success,
> >however I would like to add remote file access to the system...
> >
> >9p seems a good fit ☺
> >
> >Anyone written or ported a small simple 9p library;
> >I am after client and server but anything would be good.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-Steve
>
> http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations
>
> sl
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