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 … [View More]

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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 > … [View More]

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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,… [View More]

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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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