Pike-devel November 2008

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13 discussions

negative indices in array ranges
by Martin Baehr 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

hi, instead of having to do: reverse(reverse(foo/"/")[1..]); i'd very much prefer: (foo/"/")[..-2]; are there any reasons that speak against supporting this other than me not being able to offer a patch? greetings, martin.

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negative indices in array ranges
by Mirar ＠ Pike developers forum 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

levels might possibly be from -1 and up, -1 meaning infinite.

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managing comport settings in linux
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

Not a good idea; the design philosophy of Pike is that Pike-level code should never be able to cause memory corruption at C-level. With ioctls there's no way to know what data a specific ioctl wants without reading the documentation for that specific ioctl for that specific OS. ioctls and fcntls are a way for device handlers to hook in APIs that aren't standard across all filedescriptors. / Henrik Grubbström (Lysator) Previous text: >2004-08-17 13:32: >Subject: managing comport settings in linux >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >What would be nice, is a way to define ioctl methods in >Pike. Perhaps something like > >object i = Stdio.IOCTL(4242 /* request_id */ ); >i->add_int_parameter(); >i->add_string_parameter(); >i->set_return_type(STRING); > >string ret = i(fd, 1, "somestring"); > > >That ought to be possible, or..? > > / Marcus Agehall (PacketFront) >

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Re: Playing music using pike and SDL.
by Martin Nilsson (lvl 60) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 13 Mar '26

13 Mar '26

Were you not able to get any C code to play through SDL either? Does your SDL library have a mixer compiled in it (I think it is optional)?

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full MySQL 4.x support. or pike roadmap
by thomas.gusenleitner＠com-bet.com ＠ Pike developers forum 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

HI to all! mysql 4.x support works only with a mysql CFLAGS=-DUSE_OLD_FUNCTIONS is this correct ? are there plans to make a full 4.x support ? bye, thomas

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trademark question
by Martin Bähr 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

hi, i am reviewing the pike entry on wikipedia and noticed that the logo image lacks clear license information. while trying to find out what the actual license is i found that there is no clear information on the pike website either. i think it would be helpful if http://pike.ida.liu.se/about/pike/ contained a phrase like: the pike name and logo are registered trademarks of IDA. i would also like to clarify the license of the logo images on http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/logotype/ i believe there is no problem with making them gpl or mpl since they are protected by a trademark anyways. are there any issues with adding these clarifications on the pike site? greetings, martin.

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shared
by Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Since the current usage of "static" is moving to "protected" and the normal 'static' functionality is going to the modifier "shared", would it be a good idea to reserve "shared" as a keyword before the imminent release of Pike 7.8?

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IMAP Client module
by Marc Dirix 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Hello, I'm currently thinking of implementing a IMAP Client module in pike, which will further in line be integrated in a roxen module. I have looked through several client module implementations, and also into Protocols.Line.imap_style. I'm now trying to decide between whether it is smart to use callbacks internally or not. I've come up with a short list of pros and cons, and was wondering some of the more hardened developers could shed some light on the issue. Pro's * The IMAP protocol per default sends out-of-band data (meaning data which was not requested by the client). This data needs to be handled. In a webenvirenmont the actual client can not easily be notified, but the client module needs to have this ready at least on a reload. Using callbacks the data can be handled module internally. * The module could use the new IMAP IDLE support which updates the selected mailbox out-of-band so reducing the need for polling. Con's * The client needs to at least start the callback backend. If it doesn't the module will never work * Synchronisation. If a client wants to select a different mailbox, the pagereload needs to block until the server reports back with mailbox data. Thanks for considering this, Marc

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Pike 7.9
by Tor Edvardsson ＠ Pike developers forum 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

What is the estimate on creating 7.9 in the repository?

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Pike 7.7
by Tor Edvardsson ＠ Pike developers forum 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Is 7.7 closed now? I'm trying to diff an old src-tree i have locally to the repository and all I get is cvs diff: Diffing . cvs diff: failed to create lock directory for `/pike/data/cvsroot/Pike/7.7' (/pike/data/cvsroot/Pike/7.7/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory cvs diff: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/pike/data/cvsroot/Pike/7.7' cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

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Pike-devel November 2008