Rob Pike

Results 16 issues of Rob Pike

There is no import comment in the generated code. Also the DO NOT EDIT should be brought up to current standard.

We have found a couple of places that assume a vector has at least one element. It's conceivable that is an unwise assumption.

The concurrency makes for a fun demonstration (see the youtube video), but causes problems when other parts of the system want to interact with the scanner. Races result. Plus various...

NeedsFix

The current interface to client.Put requires the whole file be in memory. For huge files this is impractical. The blocks can be written as they arrive, so an incremental API...

feature

Google Cloud provides a "free tier" for low-level use of its services. (The first dose is free.) The upspin-ui browser's setup flow could provide a switch to use that instead...

Daemons such as upspinfs and cacheserver are usually started automatically and run in the background, where any errors or diagnostics they print are never seen. There should be an automatic...

feature
help wanted

It can't handle certain important use cases. It could be fixed, or perhaps we should build a better example. Tar has similar problems. - copying a read-only tree - migrating...

What character set? What is illegal? Is space allowed? Valid UTF-8 or arbitrary bytes? etc. etc.

If the store endpoint is broken, that is, there is no store server at the endpoint address, cacheserver will work just fine, saving up data until a server is available....

Now (#444) that we have versioned logs, it would be easy to change their format. One important change to make, in say version 2, would be to have markers in...