Time passes

[ewx]

Rib not fixed but it's definitely been causing a lot less trouble lately, particularly over the weekend. Back into the office tomorrow morning, I think.

Had a nice walk on Saturday, having a look at this ruined folly with Becky. We couldn't (legitimately l-) get inside but we could see that it's just brickwork clad with stone rather than stone all the way through. Very few people around Wimpole Hall this time of year, previous times I've been there it's been much busier. Curry and Xena later on. They seem to have abandoned any notion that the widely-appreciated subtext is actually sub- for season six.

(I still have photos from last weekend's walk, among other things, waiting to be posted.)

I've spent quite a bit of time this weekend improving my backup software. It's now capable of backing over SFTP to a remote host, though I came across an annoying problem with OpemSSH's sftp along the way. Still, apart from that it went pretty smoothly. (For the intrepid and Arch-enabled, get rjk@greenend.org.uk--2004/hbackup--mainline--0.)

I've also made another release of lj2news, which can be used to post LJ articles into a newsgroup.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Was that what was at the end of that demi-footpath?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

We didn't do that one in the end.

[emperor]

Hmm, maybe it should fall back to using rename() if link() isn't supported.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The difficulty is that the specification says that the rename should fail if the destination already exists, and AFAICT there's no way to do this in UNIX if you don't have link() (if you test then rename then the file could be created by another process after the test but before the rename). Draft 12 specifies options allowing the client to ask for different overwrite/atomicity properties, and some combination should allow for plain old rename(), but I think that's for the future...

[pm215]

Ah. I usually encounter this one in the other direction: you can't get unix-style rename() semantics if your fs/OS want to do "rename fails if target exists". The whole world should just be POSIX, eh?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm getting that too - part of problem is that sftp's implementation of non-UNIX rename semantics fails to work on non-UNIX filesystems.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Are you actually allowed to walk up to it? I've always been deterred by the big signs saying "go away" a the bottom of the field.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

There's a fence to stop you getting closer than a few meters but that's it. In fact you can get closer if you go round the back...

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Did you just fail to get my messages about meeting up to relieve the boredom of being stuck at home last week..?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Sorry, was working from home on Thursday/Friday, and mostly on the phone on Wednesday finding out about takeover stuff. And about as good at turning cellphone on as usual.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

What a sad-looking icon!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, I went back and applied it to other posts where I was complaining about my rib...