Pike-devel December 2006

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Process.run
by Peter Bortas (nu med mindre Opera) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

I just checked in a Process.run() in 7.7: http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/cvs/diff.xml?module=Pike&file=7.7/lib/mo… The rational for that is that I was once again reminded by a user this week that getting Process.create_process() or Process.Process right without some corner case blocking is hard. It's not obvious that if you bind pipes to booth stderr and stdout you have to take in to account that OS buffers are not limetless. Process.run() is a thin wrapper around Process.Process that collects stdout, stderr and exitcode and return them in a mapping. This could potentially result in huge strings, but will do what most users want and even already do when they call create_process() with both pipes bound. Something like this should be in 7.8, but I'm open to suggestions for other things that might be usefull to return in the mapping or for changing member names.

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Returning 0 vs throwing errors in Stdio
by Peter Bortas ＠ Pike developers forum 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

I'd like someone to expand on the advantages of the following change in 7.7: > o Stdio > The functions read_file(), read_bytes(), write_file() and > append_file() now always throw errors upon errors, to allow easier > use as errno doesn't have to be checked. read_file() and > read_bytes() still returns 0 if the file does not exists. Specificly for read_file() on files you lack permissions for. > Stdio.read_file("/etc/shadow"); (1) Result: 0 vs > Stdio.read_file("/etc/shadow"); Failed to open "/etc/shadow": Permission denied /pkg/pike/intel-debian3_1/7.7.13/pike/7.7.13/lib/modules/Stdio.pmod/module.pmod:1820: Stdio->read_file("/etc/shadow",UNDEFINED,UNDEFINED) As I see it it only makes it harder to properly handle errors. If Pike had a well developed system for handling errors it would be an improvement, but now it's only going to lead to more and buggier code. Unless someone can come up with a good explanation* for why it should be changed it should be reverted. * Like for example "I've extended and documented the error classes. It's obvious and clear how to use them now!". That'd be nice.

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src/post_modules/GTK/dependencies
by Peter Bortas ＠ Pike developers forum 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Why is 7.6/src/post_modules/GTK/dependencies in CVS? Looks generated to me.

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setxattr
by Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Do we want setxattr as a new efun in Pike 7.8, or should it be hidden in Stdio or System or something?

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Pike 7.6.98 beta
by Peter Bortas ＠ Pike developers forum 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.6.98/Pike-v7.6.98.tar.gz My TODO list for making a new release is now empty.

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Re: why is pike not using utf-8 internally?
by Mirar ＠ Pike developers forum 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

I think lots of systems are using UTF8 internally because adding support for widestrings is a *lot* of work... and for a lot of string operations it doesn't matter that much, for instance regexps. (But even there you will lose the functionality of easily matching different characters that doesn't fit in ASCII, for instance, like "[åäö]", since they will have multiple characters in the UTF8 string.)

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pike project bounty
by Martin Bähr 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

hi, money from the book sales is slowly coming in, together with surplus from conference fees and pledged donations we will soon reach 1000 euro. we have not set up any bounties and i suspect that doing so, as well as finding candidates to implement the projects will take a while. until then we need a place where this money can be stored safely with a trustworthy person. a suitable account must be found THIS MONTH! because i am changing employers, my current employer can not hold the money, and he also can not move it to my private account because then i would have to pay income tax on it. i can not offer to hold the money because i am changing location to often and as i do not trust internetbanking i do not have the ability to send money my account from anywhere but only to get cash out of an ATM which does not help us here. we need another (at least temporary) solution. and we need it quickly. it might also be worth looking at organizations like: https://www.pubsoft.org/ but that is ib the US whereas the money currently is in europe and i suspect that most projects will also be here. international money transfers accross currency boundaries are very expensive. bounty sites might also work but for those we need to have projects defined. suggestions, volunteers? greetings, martin.

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books
by Martin Bähr 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

hi, btw, since we are talking about how to handle the book money, i thought i might mention that there are now only a handful of books left. does IDA want any? greetings, martin.

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