Inferno Distributed Operating System

Extended deadline for IWP9 paper submission Spyros Lalis has posted to 9fans to announce that the deadline for submitting papers to the third International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno has been extended to Monday September the eighth. If your ... [More] paper is still in progress and you need some extra time, you can contact Program Committee chair, Richard Miller, miller at hamnavoe dot com. [Less]

Spyros Lalis has posted to 9fans to announce that the deadline for submitting papers to the [third](http://iwp9.cat-v.org/2008/) [International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno](http://iwp9.cat-v.org) has been extended to Monday September the Eigth. ... [More] If your paper is still in progress and you need some extra time, you can contact Program Committee chair, Richard Miller, miller at hamnavoe dot com. [Less]

New rc shell feature Based on an original idea and initial code by Erik Quanstrom, Russ Cox has implemented a new feature in the rc shell to allow subscripts that select a sequence (ie., range) of items. The extended syntax for subscript notation ... [More] is like this: ; foo = (a b c d) ; echo $foo(2-3) b c echo $foo(2-) b c d Russ points out in the patch(1) he submitted to sources that this allows to replace the old idiom: ; *=($x); shift; x=($*) with the much cleaner: ; x=$x(2-) This change was committed a few weeks ago to both the main (native) Plan 9 tree and the Plan 9 from User Space tree. [Less]

New rc shell feature Based on an original idea and initial code by Erik Quanstrom, Russ Cox has implemented a new feature in the rc shell to allow subscripts that select a sequence (ie., range) of items. The extended syntax for subscript notation ... [More] is like this: ; foo = (a b c d) ; echo $foo(2-3) b c echo $foo(2-) b c d Russ points out in the patch(1) he submitted to sources that this allows to replace the old idiom: ; *=($x); shift; x=($*) with the much cleaner: ; x=$x(2-) This change was committed a few weeks ago to both the main (native) Plan 9 tree and the Plan 9 from User Space tree. [Less]

Based on an original idea and initial code by Erik Quanstrom, Russ Cox has implemented a new feature in [the rc shell](http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc) to allow subscripts that select a sequence (ie., range) of items. The extended ... [More] syntax for subscript notation is like this: ; foo = (a b c d) ; echo $foo(2-3) b c echo $foo(2-) b c d Russ points out in the patch(1) he submitted to sources that this allows to replace the old idiom: ; *=($x); shift; x=($*) with the much cleaner: ; x=$x(2-) This change was committed a few weeks ago to both the main (native) Plan 9 tree and the [Plan 9 from User Space](http://plan9.us) tree. [Less]

Sources downtime Geoff Collyer posted a note in 9fans saying that sources.cs.bell-labs.com venti arenas partition has run out of space and will be down for a couple of days until more disk space can be added. He plans to fix this on Wednesday and ... [More] things should be back to normal by Thursday. Update: Sources has been back up and running for almost a day on new hardware and using a much bigger venti. Thanks Geoff! [Less]

New 9mount release Sqweek announced in the 9p-hackers mailinglist the release of version 1.3 of his 9mount helper utilities to mount (unmount and bind) 9P file systems in Linux systems with v9fs. Changes in this release include support for most ... [More] v9fs options, including virtio and fd transports, setting of msize and exclusive attach/access mode. 9umount can now unmount non-9p filesystems (if they were mounted in your home directory), which should make 9bind more usable. Also the license has been set to the very simple and clean MIT/BSD-like ISC license. Links: Home page: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ Manual page: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/docs Download: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/download [Less]

New 9mount release Sqweek announced in the 9p-hackers mailinglist the release of version 1.3 of his 9mount helper utilities to mount (unmount and bind) 9P file systems in Linux systems with v9fs. Changes in this release include support for most ... [More] v9fs options, including virtio and fd transports, setting of msize and exclusive attach/access mode. 9umount can now unmount non-9p filesystems (if they were mounted in your home directory), which should make 9bind more usable. Also the license has been set to the very simple and clean MIT/BSD-like ISC license. Links: Home page: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ Manual page: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/docs Download: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/download [Less]

Sources downtime Geoff Collyer posted a note in 9fans saying that sources.cs.bell-labs.com venti arenas partition has run out of space and will be down for a couple of days until more disk space can be added. He plans to fix this on Wednesday and ... [More] things should be back to normal by Thursday. Update: Sources has been back up and running for almost a day on new hardware and using a much bigger venti. Thanks Geoff! [Less]

Geoff Collyer posted a note in 9fans saying that sources.cs.bell-labs.com venti arenas partition has run out of space and will be down for a couple of days until more disk space can be added. He plans to fix this on Wednesday and things should be back to normal by Thursday.