From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:58:05 -0500 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Page ported to plan9port In-Reply-To: <20070208231022.GR30291@fw.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070208231022.GR30291@fw.home> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f5fea58-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 8=BD -- they're conversion programs from the second edition. Don't worry about them. Russ