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Re: [9fans] libndb 0 25 (3/7/2004 2:21:33 AM) comp.os.plan9 >| These do the same thing csgetval, ndbgetval and ndbloolval but take a >| length for the buffer that gets filled. > >How do they signal that it wasn't big enough? I put out new versions that set the errstr t... presotto

[9fans] libndb 1 13 (3/7/2004 12:21:36 AM) comp.os.plan9 Big changes. The fixed length for the value of attr/value pairs was getting to be a pain so I made it variable. Shouldn't affect most things that use it but to be on the safe side I created: Ndbtuple* csgetv... presotto

[9fans] confusion re auth and cpu #2 0 10 (3/6/2004 1:18:35 AM) comp.os.plan9 >Now I cpu to one of the 9grid machines - where I am known as >steve.simon. > > term% cat /dev/user > steve > term% cpu -h g.grid.bell-labs.com > cpu% bind /mnt/term/net /net > cpu% cpu larch.snellwilcox.com > ... presotto

Re: [9fans] scrollbar #2 #2 1 21 (3/5/2004 2:59:39 PM) comp.os.plan9 > and bah fonguilo Bill. You need to work on your accent. ... presotto

[9fans] ape math 1 19 (3/5/2004 2:07:25 PM) comp.os.plan9 What do you call 2 bannanas + 2 bannanas = 3 banannas? I've added isinf and isnan macros to the ape math.h's. I'm not ready to nuke ape. Could anyone that hates ape please just ignore that its there unless y... presotto

Re: [9fans] APE paper 1 12 (3/5/2004 4:17:41 AM) comp.os.plan9 Its clear I had no idea how troff works when I wrote ms2html. This isn't going to be fixed any time soon. It isn't just the APE paper. ... presotto

[9fans] (no subject) #2 #13 1 36 (3/4/2004 5:58:24 PM) comp.os.plan9 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-sixockelpyfcjbkjydehvspaqs Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Costs if you're in the us... presotto

Re: [9fans] Re: advantages of limbo 1 34 (3/2/2004 8:03:28 AM) comp.os.plan9 On the topic of garbage collectors, one of the main reasons for reference counting objects and immediately releasing them when they become unreachable was to use garbage collection to allow control not only of ... presotto

[9fans] journal of really reproducable results 1 21 (2/29/2004 2:37:42 AM) comp.os.plan9 Just in case anyone cares... I try to keep track of where my spam comes from. 6 months ago about 60% came from the US. My last weeks figures are now only 42% US origin. The rest of the world has caught up. ... presotto

[9fans] web problems with plan9.bell-labs.com 0 21 (2/24/2004 10:14:42 PM) comp.os.plan9 I found that we didn't seem to be handling conditional web queries correctly. Why it was happening was beyond me, i.e., the source showed the right action, so I rebuilt and restarted. It's working correctly n... presotto

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[9fans] COND LIST on vlong 1 20 (3/5/2004 1:28:35 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi, COND LIST and COMMA are not supported by C compiler for vlong. Is it a feature or an omission? ... dvd (191)

[9fans] graphviz-1.10 port #2 1 27 (3/5/2004 10:31:44 PM) comp.os.plan9 I'm sorry for the empty message, have done something wrong. Hi, I've made an ape port of graphviz. dot and neato are working (the generated Postscript and SVG is the same as on other platforms, just better). ... dvd (191)

[9fans] dhcp & metanames 1 15 (3/7/2004 10:09:35 AM) comp.os.plan9 I'm getting my IP setup from a (non-Plan 9) DHCP server. It doesn't contain the name of the mail server. Hence, /net/ndb doesn't contain it. Hence, mail isn't working. Setting smtp=3D... in /lib/ndb/local has n... t.lankots (140)

[9fans] making emalloc a library function 2 19 (3/7/2004 11:33:38 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello Quite many programs define emalloc, which does the same thing. I was thinking of ripping these out and replacing with a library. I have two alternative routes. Either make libemalloc which contains emal... ekarttun (6)

RE: [9fans] dhcp & metanames 2 11 (3/7/2004 1:16:25 PM) comp.os.plan9 > /net/ndb is used by cs and dns before /lib/ndb. If you have=20 > an entry for > the network in /lib/ndb/local with the smtp=3D, it will be found. It was _not_ found. That's the whole problem that made me wo... t.lankots (140)

RE: [9fans] dhcp & metanames #2 #3 1 18 (3/7/2004 1:59:36 PM) comp.os.plan9 > This means that the system, by reading the RTC on boot, will be in > the wrong time zone till timesync gets in there. Boot can't do > any better because the file system with the timezone files hasn't > star... t.lankots (140)

[9fans] boot.c -> bad nvram key 2 18 (3/7/2004 2:13:34 PM) comp.os.plan9 I have make a new installation of a plan 9 terminal in a clean disk (actually, it is a vmware "machine"). After loading the kernel, boot(8) prints these lines: > root is from (il, tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fs... alcortes (8)

[9fans] directories in server registry (#s) 1 36 (3/7/2004 4:37:27 PM) comp.os.plan9 Would supporting subdirectories in /srv be a bad idea? It seems because of '#s's global nature, it would be useful if an application (or its user) could confine itself to a subdirectory. Perhaps too much kerne... 9nut

[9fans] 'fp: stack overflow' 2 20 (3/4/2004 6:29:34 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi, I am getting 'fp: stack overfow' on a pretty simple code from graphviz building Bezier curves. The code literally just computes a mean of two numbers t=(high+low)/2.0 , and when t is about to become 0.937... dvd (191)

[9fans] APE paper 3 16 (3/5/2004 12:05:34 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hi, The paper about APE at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.html has turned to be much longer than I though it was. I am not saying it is a excuse for the story with hypot, but in my browser, it ends o... dvd (191)