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Welcome to discussions and questions the Inferno distributed operating system, including the Limbo programming language.

See http://inferno-os.org for information and documentation.

The source and system are available at http://inferno-os.googlecode.com/ and at http://inferno-os.org/inferno/downloads.html.

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clasp126...@icebubble.org, … da...@boddie.org.uk13

Mar 25

Where to get current version of Inferno

On Friday 25 March 2022, clasp126 wrote: But I don't know if Mercurial's e-mail patches and

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Where to get current version of Inferno

On Friday 25 March 2022, clasp126 wrote: But I don't know if Mercurial's e-mail patches and

Mar 25

da...@boddie.org.uk, … Charles Forsyth38

Mar 5

Updated version of the Dis Virtual Machine Specification

The yacc grammar is superficially more permissive: ids ':' Limport exp ';' but

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Updated version of the Dis Virtual Machine Specification

The yacc grammar is superficially more permissive: ids ':' Limport exp ';' but

Mar 5

clasp126...@icebubble.org, da...@boddie.org.uk3

Feb 26

The Inferno way to do a few X-11-type customizations

"da...@boddie.org.uk" <david@boddie.org.uk> writes: >> drab gray is starting to

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The Inferno way to do a few X-11-type customizations

"da...@boddie.org.uk" <david@boddie.org.uk> writes: >> drab gray is starting to

Feb 26

clasp126...@icebubble.org

Feb 23

Minor bug in MUL2 macro in /libmemdraw/draw.c

There appears to be a minor bug at /libmemdraw/draw.c:29: #define MUL2(u, v, x, y) is missing a

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Minor bug in MUL2 macro in /libmemdraw/draw.c

There appears to be a minor bug at /libmemdraw/draw.c:29: #define MUL2(u, v, x, y) is missing a

Feb 23

David Boddie

Feb 22

Preemption on ARM Thumb-2

I've been messing around with the Thumb toolchain to do bare metal programming on a Cortex-M4 MCU

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Preemption on ARM Thumb-2

I've been messing around with the Thumb toolchain to do bare metal programming on a Cortex-M4 MCU

Feb 22

clasp126...@icebubble.org, … Will Cassis5

Feb 19

Advice sought for Inferno library development strategy

I think "bhgv" is the person you're thinking of who got Inferno running on Android (

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Advice sought for Inferno library development strategy

I think "bhgv" is the person you're thinking of who got Inferno running on Android (

Feb 19

Anthony Sorace

Feb 18

Plan 9 applying to GSoC

Plan 9 is applying to GSoC again! The application period closes on Monday, and our formal application

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Plan 9 applying to GSoC

Plan 9 is applying to GSoC again! The application period closes on Monday, and our formal application

Feb 18

da...@boddie.org.uk, … Anthony Sorace14

Feb 15

ARM Thumb assembler

On Tuesday, 15 February 2022 07:23:48 CET Anthony Sorace wrote: > On Feb 13, 2022, at 16:34 ,

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ARM Thumb assembler

On Tuesday, 15 February 2022 07:23:48 CET Anthony Sorace wrote: > On Feb 13, 2022, at 16:34 ,

Feb 15

Go Phone

Jan 28

Some numbers with forth userspace instead of dis/limbo

Hello, Here are some numbers when using a forth user space on native amd64 architecture instead of

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Some numbers with forth userspace instead of dis/limbo

Hello, Here are some numbers when using a forth user space on native amd64 architecture instead of

Jan 28

clasp126...@icebubble.org

Jan 20

Getting Tk mouse event bindings right

Hey, all, I'm trying to figure out how the correct way (or if it's even possible) to specify

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Getting Tk mouse event bindings right

Hey, all, I'm trying to figure out how the correct way (or if it's even possible) to specify

Jan 20

Go Phone

Jan 14

Sh grouping contents of a csv file

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to do grouping with Sh (similar to awk '{total+=$2};END {

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Sh grouping contents of a csv file

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to do grouping with Sh (similar to awk '{total+=$2};END {

Jan 14

Go Phone, Valery Ushakov3

Jan 1

Working jitter

> This inferno tree is about 2 years old, sorry. It's the one I had handy. Thanks, that was

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Working jitter

> This inferno tree is about 2 years old, sorry. It's the one I had handy. Thanks, that was

Jan 1

Brian Stuart, Valery Ushakov6

12/31/21

NetBSD Issue

Gotcha. I might go that route as well, but probably not this evening. Thanks, BLS On Fri, Dec 31,

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NetBSD Issue

Gotcha. I might go that route as well, but probably not this evening. Thanks, BLS On Fri, Dec 31,

12/31/21

clasp126...@icebubble.org, … Brian Stuart5

12/31/21

Booting native kernels

It's been a while since I last tried real hardware, but I just built a floppy image and booted it

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Booting native kernels

It's been a while since I last tried real hardware, but I just built a floppy image and booted it

12/31/21

Go Phone, Charles Forsyth2

12/27/21

read(1) from a pipe

How were you planning to use read with a file argument if you're trying to read from a pipe? Is

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read(1) from a pipe

How were you planning to use read with a file argument if you're trying to read from a pipe? Is

12/27/21

Go Phone, Charles Forsyth5

11/20/21

waserror() usage in inferno.c calls

I did not realize the effect of --nerrlab. That should take care of the return path. Sorry about it.

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waserror() usage in inferno.c calls

I did not realize the effect of --nerrlab. That should take care of the return path. Sorry about it.

11/20/21

Go Phone

10/26/21

Multi threaded dis vm

Hello, Just want to check if anyone explored a multi threaded dis vm. Thanks

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Multi threaded dis vm

Hello, Just want to check if anyone explored a multi threaded dis vm. Thanks

10/26/21

Go Phone, Charles Forsyth2

9/23/21

SMTPD implementations on inferno?

Not that I know. On Sun, 12 Sept 2021 at 22:24, Go Phone <gophone2015@gmail.com> wrote: Hello,

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SMTPD implementations on inferno?

Not that I know. On Sun, 12 Sept 2021 at 22:24, Go Phone <gophone2015@gmail.com> wrote: Hello,

9/23/21

Go Phone, … clasp126...@icebubble.org7

9/20/21

inferno secstored?

Go Phone <gophone2015@gmail.com> writes: > It does not make sense to me to store the key to

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inferno secstored?

Go Phone <gophone2015@gmail.com> writes: > It does not make sense to me to store the key to

9/20/21

Ben Huntsman, hiro2

9/12/21

Inferno development

it's still charles forsyth who has the main inferno branch. which forks and changes are you

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Inferno development

it's still charles forsyth who has the main inferno branch. which forks and changes are you

9/12/21

Go Phone

9/11/21

Machine specific startup configuration

Hello Charles, forum, What is a good place to put machine specific startup configuration scripts (

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Machine specific startup configuration

Hello Charles, forum, What is a good place to put machine specific startup configuration scripts (

9/11/21

Ben Huntsman

9/9/21

amd64 MacOSX

Hi guys! I've seen various mentions of it, and I'd heard from Charles a few weeks ago that

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amd64 MacOSX

Hi guys! I've seen various mentions of it, and I'd heard from Charles a few weeks ago that

9/9/21

Go Phone, Charles Forsyth4

9/7/21

ventisrv(8)

It's almost certainly an oversight that it wasn't merged into the main tree years ago. On Tue

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ventisrv(8)

It's almost certainly an oversight that it wasn't merged into the main tree years ago. On Tue

9/7/21

Aaron....@student.nmt.edu, … da...@boddie.org.uk4

8/14/21

Q&A

Old Lucent Software

The second edition contains a packet filter: https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-2e/src/master/

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Q&A

Old Lucent Software

The second edition contains a packet filter: https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-2e/src/master/

8/14/21

Go Phone

7/24/21

bootstrapping native amd64 inferno

Hello, There is a native amd64 inferno booting to a shell prompt in vmx (9front's) hosted at http

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bootstrapping native amd64 inferno

Hello, There is a native amd64 inferno booting to a shell prompt in vmx (9front's) hosted at http

7/24/21

Go Phone

7/24/21

Bug in disk/mkfs processing to a disk/kfs file system?

Hello, disk/mkfs updates the mtime after creating a directory or file. But, disk/kfs does not allow

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Bug in disk/mkfs processing to a disk/kfs file system?

Hello, disk/mkfs updates the mtime after creating a directory or file. But, disk/kfs does not allow

7/24/21

Go Phone, bhgv4

7/15/21

mount kfs file to /n/local

> I want to know the proper/inferno way of splitting the mount -c {disk/kfs kfs.file} /n/local so

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mount kfs file to /n/local

> I want to know the proper/inferno way of splitting the mount -c {disk/kfs kfs.file} /n/local so

7/15/21

Go Phone, … bhgv6

7/15/21

namespace loaded by wm/logon

> That would fix it. It's just really weird for beginners but the simple ability to have

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namespace loaded by wm/logon

> That would fix it. It's just really weird for beginners but the simple ability to have

7/15/21

Go Phone, … Valery Ushakov7

7/9/21

weird behaviour with os

Yes, I see this on both NetBSD and Linux (64-bit host, 32-bit inferno). On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at

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weird behaviour with os

Yes, I see this on both NetBSD and Linux (64-bit host, 32-bit inferno). On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at

7/9/21

Go Phone

7/8/21

Patches to get acme to work with plumbed addresses

Please find attached the patches to get acme to work with the plumber on inferno-os

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Patches to get acme to work with plumbed addresses

Please find attached the patches to get acme to work with the plumber on inferno-os

7/8/21