Re: [9fans] Page ported to plan9port

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

Thanks.

> There are a few things that aren't as well as I'd like:
> 1. I switched to libthread, but I still have to fork/exec for gs,
> because it needs 5 file descriptors, and threadspawnl allows only 3. I
> looked at the threadspawnl code, and it forks/execs itself, and I
> haven't had any issues.

It would be nice to make do with three, since at some
point we'll want to run on other systems, but this is fine for now.

> 2. To get the screen size, I used an ugly hack of spawning "xdpyinfo |
> grep dimensions:" and parsing it. I'd like to know if libdraw provides
> another way to get these.

I should probably add that to the library.  xdpyinfo is fine for now.

> 3. There are some conversion commands which specify programs in fb/,
> which exists neither on plan 9, nor in p9p. Does anyone know what/where
> they were?

These are relics, but not from 8½ -- they're conversion programs
from the second edition.  Don't worry about them.

Russ