Re: glibc/io/fts.c, MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-06-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:43:02AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: >Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:49:01 -0500 >From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi, > >io/fts.c has a MAXPATHLEN issue. >The Debian glibc build of 2.2.3-6 (CVS 6-9-2001) fails because >of that. > > I do

Re: glibc/io/fts.c, MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-06-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:49:01PM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > io/fts.c has a MAXPATHLEN issue. > The Debian glibc build of 2.2.3-6 (CVS 6-9-2001) fails because > of that. > > Sorry, no more info as I can't send mail from my local machine > right now. This is the relevant code snip

Re: glibc/io/fts.c, MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:49:01 -0500 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, io/fts.c has a MAXPATHLEN issue. The Debian glibc build of 2.2.3-6 (CVS 6-9-2001) fails because of that. I don't see any problems with the current CVS version. Yes, it uses MAXPATHLEN, but on

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-29 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: TBB> OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For now, I'm afraid of two things about that. One of these is that >> people often write documents and comments differently, of course, >> intentionally. TBB> I agree with Okuji here. The job of the comm

correction to glibc build problem

2001-06-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I think this is the old problem of the installed linker binary ld.so being linked against at build time rather than the installed binary. I forgot if this is a problem with the cross compiler wrapper script or the Makefiles, though. I replaced my /gnu/lib/ld.so with the built version and it

glibc build fails

2001-06-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, the glibc build fails in iconv other: /home/marcus/debian/glibc-2.2.3/i386-gnu/obj/libc.so.0.2: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /home/marcus/debian/glibc-2.2.3/i386-gnu/obj/libc.so.0.2: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This seems to

glibc/io/fts.c, MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-06-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, io/fts.c has a MAXPATHLEN issue. The Debian glibc build of 2.2.3-6 (CVS 6-9-2001) fails because of that. Sorry, no more info as I can't send mail from my local machine right now. Marcus ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu

Re: plex86 and GNU Mach

2001-06-29 Thread Ian Duggan
> > ...plex86... > > What's plex86? It's a project, formerly FreeMWare, that aims to build an emulator for x86 stuff. They already have a couple of OSes working on it. Some of us are trying to get the Hurd on it. The benefit is that you'd be able to work on the Hurd from Linux, without needing

Re: Fix statfs

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 29 Jun 2001 10:55:51 -0700 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way the ext2fs and ufs file system calculate the number of > available blocks can yield a negative number. Since fsblkcont_t is an > unsigned type th

Bug#102437: dealloc analysis for each server function, more bugs!

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It just occured to me that it is probably safe to use malloc()'ed buffers, > as long as you don't use dealloc with them? It's a bit awkward, because > this is mixing Mach level with glibc level stuff. I don't know if it is > safe to return a buffer

Re: plex86 and GNU Mach

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...plex86... What's plex86? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For now, I'm afraid of two things about that. One of these is that > people often write documents and comments differently, of course, > intentionally. Comments tend to be terse, because too long statements > are annoying for programmers, while docume

Re: diskfs_console_stdio

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that there is an error in > libdiskfs/console.c:diskfs_console_stdio. The first line of the > functions is: > > if (getpid () > 0) > > Currently, proc is always pid 0 and the root filesystem is pid 4. As > such, can we eliminate the

Re: Fix statfs

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way the ext2fs and ufs file system calculate the number of > available blocks can yield a negative number. Since fsblkcont_t is an > unsigned type this causes some interesting output from df, when your > filesystem is clogging up. Hrm. Before chec

Re: A bad loop in settrans

2001-06-29 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:31:41PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Funny, isn't it ;) Yes it is! :) > Yes, but maybe a different one than you think. What about the following: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/image bs=1024k count=10 > $ mke2fs /image > $ settrans -a /home /hurd/ext2fs /image > > The

Re: A bad loop in settrans

2001-06-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:31:08PM +0200, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > Hi all, > for a mistake I launched this on command line: > elisia# settrans -a /home /hurd/ext2fs /home > > and then try to enter in /home using cd. I looped out. Funny, isn't it ;) > I think this could be a bug, Yes, but

A bad loop in settrans

2001-06-29 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi all, for a mistake I launched this on command line: elisia# settrans -a /home /hurd/ext2fs /home and then try to enter in /home using cd. I looped out. Unfortunly I was not using screen and I must reboot my laptop. I think this could be a bug, a check on source device and mounting p