Having Another Go

I recently deleted my gitlab and github accounts and for a short while I thought I’d forgotten to back up quinn. Fortunately I found a copy from late last year, so it was not all lost.

I decided to have another go, and I’m pleased to say I’ve fixed pipes (previously when launching the web server in a terminal instead of the console, the output was displayed in the terminal instead of over the web) the problem was I wasn’t closing the pipes file handle when closing the pipe, so when dup ran on the stdin / stdout the resulting pipe wasn’t redirecting stdio as it should.

Anyway, pipes are fixed, and I also discovered I wasn’t closing file handles when processes finished or were terminated. So that is fixed too.

With VMware releasing workstation pro as free, I have that setup instead of Virtual Box (it seems to work better with windows) but the e1000 driver wasn’t picking up the VMWare’s e1000 card – so I added a new device id and it works – however there are lots of interrupts i am not handling from this version of the card. Not sure what they are, but I suppressed the warning and it works fine. I’ll look into why later.

So, this is a new website running on my own computer (so it might be slow or non responsive from time to time) but the test page link up the top will take you to a webpage hosted by Quinn (assuming it’s not crashed.)

That’s all for now 🙂