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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:26:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx (is this the right list)? import issue
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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I think that oserrstr should be fixed.
You want "interrupted" to be the error string
for many places not just right here.
Other programs look for strstr(error, "interrupt") for example

Russ

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, so what happens in 9vx.
>
> mount sources
> cd /n/blah/blah
> grep full *.c
> hit DEL
> devip.c read on Qdata fails, and we do this:
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0if(r < 0){
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0oserrstr();
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0nexterror();
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0}
>
> So just need to fix oserrstr() or fix this in devip itself? I vote
> oserrstr, lucho votes fix this little bit of
> code.
>
> Anyway, there it is.
>
> We're watching this talk on nested VMs on the x86 machines. Oops.
> hardware botch. You have to do strange things to make it all work. I
> can't believe nobody read the IBM papers before they designed this
> stuff in.
>
> ron
>
>