comp.os.plan9 Google Group

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

2010-01-05T15:55:59Z

Nothing new under the sun I'am afraid, however if you go ahead
this might be interesting.
[link]
-Steve

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05T15:25:39Z

i think you misunderstand the problem. cookiefs' fs interface
is not the issue. cookiefs' robustness when storing the cookies
on the fileserver in the face of multiple concurrently running
cookiefs' is.
- erik

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05T15:17:05Z

Just curious: can an 9P server cleanly differenciate between clients ?
This would be a great help for transaction isolation, IMHO.
w/o having looked at cookiefs yet, but I would do it like that:
* get cookies by reading /site-cookies/<site>
* set cookies by writing "<site>: foo=bar" to /set pipe

Re: [9fans] Got a phd? getting a phd?

2010-01-05T15:04:01Z

What are the exact prerequisites ?
Especially for, lets say, Germany ?
cu

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

2010-01-05T13:59:51Z

Not sure how things work on Plan9, but on GNU/Linux you could
even use LD_PRELOAD to overlay the read() libc function to
hide that magic, or even tweak libc for that.
BTW: how to do you in general think about having tweaked libc's
instead of all these "cross-platform libraries" ? For example,
I'm thinking about whether it's worth to change uclibc in a way

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05T13:28:14Z

That, of course, would be the very most worstcase that can ever happen ;-)
cu

Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices

2010-01-05T12:42:04Z

hmm, do you know how did it and if there's any code on that yet ?
cu

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05T12:41:36Z

hmm, I think the Toasters work w/ SSDs or maybe some kind of
nano corememory, at least the mechanical ones. This could also
their extreme suspectibility to certain radiations. But no idea
what causes that effect on the humanoid ones ... ;-o
cu

Re: [9fans] secuser bugs

2010-01-04T22:27:57Z

i suppose that it has the benefit that it conflicts
with the fileserver's dump format. plus it sorts incorrectly.
- erik

Re: [9fans] secstore account expired, how fix it using only drawterm

2010-01-04T21:59:08Z

a version of cec(8), the client, is available in the
distribution. also, a better-for-debugging version
is available as contrib quanstro/cec. see the -e
flag. cec(3), the server, is available in 9atom.
i've been using cec heavily recently as i've been
working on a driver and have been too lazy to

Re: [9fans] secuser bugs

2010-01-04T21:24:59Z

We, on this side of the pond, find that format rather modern and exciting;
not in the least bit old... ☺

Re: [9fans] secstore account expired, how fix it using only drawterm

2010-01-04T21:23:37Z

The problem is not drawterm, it is by design. keyfs (and I assume secstored)
create a virtual filesystem that the command line apps use to communicate with
the running daemon.
Due to plan9's per process namespace and because your drawterm session is not
decended from the console's shell (where /mnt/keys was created) you cannot see

[9fans] secuser bugs

2010-01-04T21:19:14Z

i submitted a patch to secuser. i noticed that the
month printed was off by one. according to secuser
one year from today would be (in the odd ddmmyyyyy
format it used) 04002011.
i changed that to yyyymmdd and fixed a handful of
bugs. one year from today is now 20110104.
- erik

Re: [9fans] secstore account expired, how fix it using only drawterm

2010-01-04T19:58:24Z

Thank you Erik.
I managed to log in as bootes with drawterm and then went and edited
/adm/secstore/who/$user by hand to give it a new expiration epoch value.
I'm not sure why the auth commands hang in a vanilla drawterm (no rio). I
get the impression that setting the console to raw doesn't work with

Re: [9fans] secstore account expired, how fix it using only drawterm

2010-01-04T19:56:34Z

I think (I haven't tried this) you can drawterm in as bootes
and then manually edit the file /adm/secstore/who/$user and change
the number after exp. I guess this number is the number of secs since 1/1/70
butthe source for secstored wil tell you.
-Steve