Kurt H Maier k...@sciops.net wrote:
I mangled some webshit earlier today on that server (bad timing I guess).
Correct link to the hg repo is https://code.9front.org/hg/awk
This appears to be based on Brian Kernighan's awk from sometime in 1999
and not written from scratch.
There have been
Have the MKS sources ever been released?
I don't believe so. I think they were the basis for z/OS, which is
a POSIX environment on top of IBM's MVS.
The MKS awk made its way out into the world via Solaris, which for some
reason chose that code base, instead of a more recent version of BWK's
There have been many fixes to BWK's code since then. If you're going to
start over, it should be done from his current code, available from
his Princeton home page.
9atom's awk has been updated with bwk's recent source. it also has a fix for
the problem
sometimes seen with plan 9 installs
On May 30, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Kurt H Maier k...@sciops.net wrote:
pretty difficult to do if there is a desire to use git or hg.
does hgfs use APE? I haven't investigated too closely.
hgfs is a read-only Hg tool written in Limbo. You still need hg running
on your host to pull/commit/push
On May 30, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote:
On May 30, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Kurt H Maier k...@sciops.net wrote:
pretty difficult to do if there is a desire to use git or hg.
does hgfs use APE? I haven't investigated too closely.
hgfs is a read-only Hg
On May 30, 2015, at 11:54 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.
i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with some minor tweaks to
fit the
environment. it works well,
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za:
It is the Plan 9 Way (TM) to avoid nested inclusion of header files,
although I guess the APE may be exempted.
while I agree it's not very plan-9-like, the posix standard is horrible and
broken and nobody should be surprised that the easy way to implement it
this doesn't seem like motiviation to rewrite awk. there must be another
reason?
I think rewrite is a mischaracterization (nobody is talking about re-
implementing the awk interpreter), so arguing against that seems to be beside
the point. Probably, port awk to Plan 9 without using APE is
lu...@proxima.alt.za:
It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
for GAWK that can be used here?
The gawk test suite is part of the dist. See test/Makefile.am for the
list of tests that are general and those that are gawk specific.
I've tried to keep the separation
On Sat May 30 13:36:14 PDT 2015, s...@9front.org wrote:
On May 30, 2015, at 11:54 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.
i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with
On Sat May 30 21:43:03 PDT 2015, k...@sciops.net wrote:
Quoting arn...@skeeve.com:
BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think
it's in his README file.
Yes, it was explained to me that plan 9 malloc does useful things instead
of just shoving things into the
Quoting arn...@skeeve.com:
BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think
it's in his README file.
Yes, it was explained to me that plan 9 malloc does useful things instead
of just shoving things into the first available hole like APE malloc.
I'm reasonably certain
Quoting erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net:
instead of guessing, you could see if the pool library's checks are
really a bottleneck.
it is straightforward to add header and tail magic and the callerpc
stuff to ape
malloc and run the comparsion again.
otherwise, it seems far more likely
On Sat May 30 22:02:11 PDT 2015, quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Sat May 30 21:43:03 PDT 2015, k...@sciops.net wrote:
Quoting arn...@skeeve.com:
BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think
it's in his README file.
Yes, it was explained to me that plan 9
and the
MKS awk as found in the various OpenSolaris derivatives
MKS was my introduction to Unix, I was a PCDOS user back then :-)
It's interesting to hear about that port. I still tread carefully in
vi because of a minor nit (which my fingers remember better than my
brain) with backspace in
It is the Plan 9 Way (TM) to avoid nested inclusion of header files,
$ arch/dat.h includes port/portdat.h in kernel. Exempted too?
That's out of necessity, the alternative(s) would be considerably less
practical. If memory serves, port/portdat.h is not strictly a header
file in the
Quoting Kurt H Maier k...@sciops.net:
Paul wrote it from scratch.
No he didn't; he started with Boyd's awk. Been a while since
I looked at the commit history. Sorry.
khm
Den 30 maj 2015 08:41 skrev lu...@proxima.alt.za:
does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
Build it and they'll come :-)
URL? Is it portable? How carefully was it ported?
It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
for GAWK that can be used here?
Lucio.
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za:
does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
Build it and they'll come :-)
URL? Is it portable? How carefully was it ported?
It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
for GAWK that can be used here?
Lucio.
Paul wrote it from
On 30 May 2015 at 08:21, Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote:
am also interested in seeing how compatible the ported m4 is with GNU m4
if there are good tests
GNU m4 is insane, and completely missed the point about GPM (and thus m4).
My m4 port is based on Ritchie's m4, although I might
Den 30 maj 2015 10:23 skrev Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com:
On 30 May 2015 at 08:21, Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote:
am also interested in seeing how compatible the ported m4 is with GNU m4
if there are good tests
GNU m4 is insane, and completely missed the point about GPM
I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.
In my wild dreams I wish for a native version of ghostscript (the only
justified use of APE, if you believe in fairness (or fairy tales :-)).
But maybe Go will eventually stimulate development
does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
Build it and they'll come :-)
URL? Is it portable? How carefully was it ported?
It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
for GAWK that can be used here?
Lucio.
I am not saying that they are the ideal or good tools - just that most 3rd
party source expect certain behavior and a compatibility environment
(like APE) has as first priority to deal with 3rd party stuff. Enabling as
much as possible without judgement is at least to me desirable.
Remember
I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.
i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with some minor tweaks to
fit the
environment. it works well, and allows portable awk to be written. can you
explain what is to be gained by
Personally, it's just one more reason to reduce our nation's dependence on
foreign code -- does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
pretty difficult to do if there is a desire to use git or hg.
- erik
Quoting erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net:
i don't understand this.
It is a personal preference not rooted in any technological excuses.
pretty difficult to do if there is a desire to use git or hg.
does hgfs use APE? I haven't investigated too closely.
khm
Which version?
The id_t and pid_t types shall be defined as described in
sys/types.h. in issue 6
The sys/wait.h header shall define the id_t and pid_t types as
described in sys/types.h. in issue 7
in the sys/wait.h part of the headers section of base definitions
I haven't looked
It is the Plan 9 Way (TM) to avoid nested inclusion of header files,
$ arch/dat.h includes port/portdat.h in kernel. Exempted too?
Álvaro Jurado Cuevas
http://colmenar.biz.tm
El 30/05/2015 07:11, lu...@proxima.alt.za escribió:
Which version?
The id_t and pid_t types shall be defined as
On Wed May 27 12:51:19 PDT 2015, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
A potential bug in APE sys/wait.h : the header does not make sure that
pid_t
has been defined.
Compiling sbase on Plan9/APE ended up in situations where there were lots
of
compilation faliures simply because
i did a google search for it and found this:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/wait.h.html
which stated:
The id_t and pid_t types shall be defined as described in sys/types.h.
and also looked in openbsd's sys/wait.h which did #include sys/types.h
which was good
Quoting erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net:
On Wed May 27 12:51:19 PDT 2015, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
A potential bug in APE sys/wait.h : the header does not make sure
that pid_t
has been defined.
Compiling sbase on Plan9/APE ended up in situations where there
were lots of
A potential bug in APE sys/wait.h : the header does not make sure that pid_t
has been defined.
Compiling sbase on Plan9/APE ended up in situations where there were lots of
compilation faliures simply because sys/wait.h was included without
sys/types.h being included before.
fixed.
--
On Friday 15 May 2015 07:53:39 cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
commited the fix.
Playing with the ports has so far uncovered 3 bugs (hget, zip and the one
below) so rather fruitful playing :)
A potential bug in APE sys/wait.h : the header does not make sure that pid_t
has been defined.
On Friday 15 May 2015 07:53:39 cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
fixed, its a bug in gunzip. the extra-len field in the gzip header has two
byte length field instead of one byte.
commited the fix.
awesome!
now it works
haha, this appears to be an apache bug, and mozilla has work arrounds
for this. we might need todo similar thing and check for content type
as well.
--
cinap
commited a work arround for this now.
--
cinap
nope, apache is wired.
--
cinap
cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
|found it. the server sends Content-Encoding header which causes hget
|to add a decompression filter, so you get as output a tarball.
|
|- Content-Type: application/x-gzip
|- Content-Encoding: gzip
|
|this is clearly silly, as the file is already
fixed, its a bug in gunzip. the extra-len field in the gzip header has two
byte length field instead of one byte.
commited the fix.
--
cinap
On Thursday 14 May 2015 16:37:05 cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
pretty sure this is apache bug/misconfiguration. googled for it
and the issue seems to be known problem.
The zlib archive works fine now :)
by the way, did you try the mksh archive after hget was fixed? I still get the
same error
I tried out the sbase zip on my system. That seems to work fine. Heres the log:
cpu% lc
sbase-master.zip
cpu% unzip -f sbase-master.zip
cpu% lc
sbase-master/ sbase-master.zip
cpu% cd sbase-master/
cpu% lc
LICENSE comm.1 find.1 md5.h readlink.c
On Thursday 14 May 2015 12:52:48 cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
i just tried this and it works all fine:
hget http://bitbucket.org/9front/plan9front/get/tip.tar.gz | gunzip | tar t
so please give a example command with a url that gives you issues.
Hi
sorry about the lack of details before
found it. the server sends Content-Encoding header which causes hget
to add a decompression filter, so you get as output a tarball.
- Content-Type: application/x-gzip
- Content-Encoding: gzip
from the w3c:
The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the
media-type.
When
On Thursday 14 May 2015 13:10:20 Jens Staal wrote:
This might be a vbox bug (known for flaky network? I use the recommended
settings from 9front wiki), so I will try in qemu instead.
I just tried with the archives in qemu too and got the same error (and the
same deviant md5sum) - so hget is
the sbase works fine for me, tho i can reproduce the mksh-R50f.tgz gzip
problem.
lemme do some debugging on that.
--
cinap
Den 12 maj 2015 07:47 skrev mve...@mveety.com:
Thanks Jens! I can add you to the bitbucket if you wish so you can
contribute at your leisure. Also, if anyone else wants commit access,
just ask. :) (I think bitbucket has some dumb limited commit bit
thing though. Hopefully I'll get off it
could you be more specific what files fail to unpack with tar?
--
cinap
Both tar.gz (zlib official site) and tar.bz2 (mksh official site). I just
wonder if they get corrupted during transfer with hget or if there is a
different issue.
Den 14 maj 2015 10:49 skrev cinap_len...@felloff.net:
could you be more specific what files fail to unpack with tar?
--
cinap
why can't you just give a url so someone can try to reproduce it?
--
cinap
i just tried this and it works all fine:
hget http://bitbucket.org/9front/plan9front/get/tip.tar.gz | gunzip | tar t
so please give a example command with a url that gives you issues.
--
cinap
Den 12 maj 2015 04:13 skrev mve...@mveety.com:
Hey 9fans,
I wrote a ports tree for 9front, but it should work fine on
labs Plan 9. It's a bit light on software and probably has bugs,
so I would really love comments on it and mkfiles for new software.
Take a look at the code, try it
Thanks Jens! I can add you to the bitbucket if you wish so you can
contribute at your leisure. Also, if anyone else wants commit access,
just ask. :) (I think bitbucket has some dumb limited commit bit
thing though. Hopefully I'll get off it soon.)
--
Veety
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