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commit 6f2389dd759b6655bc68d489f4e7f77dacd6b4c9
parent d49cbbb8edbe5209a6180ef90634cc7c8cd01598
Author: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:38:18 +0100

la la la

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MTHOUGHTS.txt | 57+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/THOUGHTS.txt b/THOUGHTS.txt @@ -2256,7 +2256,7 @@ the complexity of acquire-lan-prefix would go away. The other half is because it subscribes to changes in the outputs instead of just running once. Perhaps there's a better way to do that? -Could separate prefixes and addresses something like this... +Could separate prefixes and addresses something like this... outputs/prefix/2001\:8b0\:de3a\:40dc\:\:/prefix outputs/prefix/2001\:8b0\:de3a\:40dc\:\:/length @@ -2279,9 +2279,62 @@ outputs/prefix/2001-8b0-de3a-40dc--/prefix Also: we should write some kind of test for this... -Tue Sep 5 21:36:39 BST 2023 +Tue Sep 5 21:36:39 BST 2023 How do we set the cpu governor? +Fri Sep 8 21:26:36 BST 2023 + +We want a fennel thing that reads a filesystem tree into a nested +table. And a thing to diff two tables + +Sat Sep 9 22:40:50 BST 2023 + +Subscribers to odhcp6c outputs need to be able to tell which addresses +are new and which have been removed since the last run, which now we +have ohdcp-script producing parsed data means they need to compare +tables by value. Which is a faff. + +What if the directory name were a hash of all the relevant fields +such that clients could just say "new directory, must be new address" + +We can have literal prefix, then need to encode +length,preferred,valid,extra space-efficiently. I cannot currently see +any way to use whatever hashing Lua uses for its table lookups, +which is a bit disapppointing, so we might have to make our own + + +https://gist.github.com/scheler/26a942d34fb5576a68c111b05ac3fabe +this is DJBHash, though doesn't appear to deal with integer overflow + + +function hash(str) + h = 5381; + + for c in str:gmatch"." do + h = ((h << 5) + h) + string.byte(c) + end + return h +end + + +Mon Sep 11 20:31:25 BST 2023 + +acquire-lan/wan-foo have no tests, and the test setup is a bit of a +faff as they are both waiting on the filesystem + +also, testing lua scripts is a faff without splitting them into +script/module + +am wondering if we could do some kind of convention that we only write +modules not scripts but something in the fennel->lua can call the +module's `run` method. + +Tuesday + +Here is a working shebang for write-fennel: + +#!/nix/store/5iwv3h2jjbk2vib2bpwx3g9knpb02x3y-lua-5.3.6/bin/lua -e dofile(arg[0]).run() +