Pike-devel August 2010

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14 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 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '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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GTK2.TextBuffer
by Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

I find the "len" parameter to some functions in GTK2.TextBuffer rather puzzling. set_text("abcdefghij", 7) - gives 7 characters in the buffer set_text("äbcdefghij", 7) - gives just 6 characters set_text("\u1d8fbcdefghij", 7) - down to 5 characters This seems like complete nonsense. Why do we require the parameter in the first place?

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System.Inotify
by Arne Goedeke 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I merged the Public.System.Inotify module into pike as System.Inotify. Its currently only in my git. You can fetch the branch called 'inotify' at http://laramies.com/git/pike/ I would like to commit this into cvs. However, it seems to me that the current policy is not to commit anything new until 7.9 is there? Also, right now it is seperate from the dnotify in Stdio. The inotify api is different from dnotify, so it might not be possible to merge that. All comments on the code welcome. arne

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sqlite bug on Windows?
by Csürke Tamás 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi! Pike programs (pike version 7.8.316) crash on Windows if I use sql insert with the builtin sqlite module (on Linux there is no problem). Maybe it is a bug? Cheers: Tamás

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Re: Bug#593436: Acknowledgement (pike7.8-core: post-installation fails on Geode system, can't reproduce on a different system though)
by Marc Dirix 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

On 19-08-10 14:55, Magnus Holmgren, Millnet/Lysator/Debian/Mensa @ Pike developers forum wrote: > That's a bit different story (or a different part of the same story > perhaps) than the Debian bug report, where pike -x dump seems to die > from an uncaught SIGALRM. I just retyped the same command which fails in during pike7.8-core.postinst, except without "--distquiet". Commenting the command out in pike7.8-core.postinst let's pike install end normally. /Marc

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Re: Bug#593436: Acknowledgement (pike7.8-core: post-installation fails on Geode system, can't reproduce on a different system though)
by Marc Dirix 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I've reported this to debian, but maybe the dev-list can also shed some light on the the topic. On one system, pike7.8 from debian installs correctly. However on one other, using a AMD Geode processor (if that has anything to do with it), it fails while dumping. I get this when I do the following command by hand: #pike -x dump -r /usr/lib/pike7.8 Error in attached textfile. On 08/18/2010 09:18 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message > has been received. > > Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > Magnus Holmgren <holmgren(a)debian.org> > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to 593436(a)bugs.debian.org. > > Please do not send mail to owner(a)bugs.debian.org unless you wish > to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. > -- Dipl.-Ing. Marc Dirix Electronics Design Schmeddingstraat 24 6361AZ Nuth Tel.: +31(45)7440744 E-Mail: marc(a)electronics-design.nl Internet: www.electronics-design.nl

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