Re: can't boot - sid() fault?

2001-09-29 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hello The problem doesn't occur when cdrom or disk (or both) on second controller is disconnected. I don't know what's wrong, master/slave jumpers are ok, i have only one additional card (sb live on pci) but taking it off doesn't help. Maybe it's hard disks fault, it's quite old 1GB model, i had

Re: mach_port_t vs task_t (really ipc_space_t) in Mach header files

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > There is probably some obscure reason having to do with mig stubs in the > kernel why those ctype declarations are there. At any rate, I'm > disinclined to fiddle with the .defs files. Ah, this is indeed true. A simple test shows

Re: mach_port_t vs task_t (really ipc_space_t) in Mach header files

2001-09-29 Thread Roland McGrath
> I am doing this right now where feasible (like, I am doing it for host_t, > but not for mach_port_name_t, esp as there is no typedef for the latter ;) > It's only used internally to mark a MACH_MSG_TYPE_PORT_NAME parameter). mach_port_name_t is not a port type at all. It is the type of port na

Re: mach_port_t vs task_t (really ipc_space_t) in Mach header files

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:05:20AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > The reason for the types in .defs files is for intran/outtran. I would > tend toward using the specific types generally, because that has more of a > chance to be mapped source-compatibly in some other RPC system. I am doing this

Re: oskit-mach & oskit-20010214: network

2001-09-29 Thread Roland McGrath
I'm glad to hear it's working for you, but that's still not quite the way I'd like to see it. (The only errors I see are in the conservative direction, i.e. it works fine, it just blocks interrupts more of the time than it needs to.) Again, thanks a lot for hacking on this and being so receptive

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are referring to the fact that I would prefer to use a manifest > constant versus sysconf or looping until a fit is found? Clearly I > don't think that is an inferior solution, but rather a practical one. My point is that you are will

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:40:12PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If the Hurd will not define MAXHOSTNAMELEN nor HOST_NAME_MAX, then > > indeed there really isn't a good choice. We'd have to use sysconf or > > _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the Hurd will not define MAXHOSTNAMELEN nor HOST_NAME_MAX, then > indeed there really isn't a good choice. We'd have to use sysconf or > _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX or what we `know' _POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX to be. > I think it's a pity. You s

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:46:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Yes, the Single UNIX specification was in error. This error was taken over > to POSIX draft 6 (from the Austin group), which also said that hostnames > are limited to 255 characters. This was fixed in draft 7 by removing this >

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:25:28PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch.co.uk > > (that's the name of a village). I now found more info at www.recordholders.org: "The longest host name ever used" www.tax.taxadvice.taxation.irs.tax-services.

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And Thomas doesn't live in Wales, UK, where we notice: > > llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch.co.uk So I knew about the name of Llanfair, but I saw this and said "is that real?" So I typed (well, cut-and-pasted): ping lla

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Really? Have you seen proposals for handling internet growth? > Hostnames are already getting longer and longer. I was once at > "unmvax". Then that became "unmvax.unm.edu". Now my laptop has the > attractive address "vp19

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OTOH I don't think that an arbitrarily long hostname makes much > sense. Really? Have you seen proposals for handling internet growth? Hostnames are already getting longer and longer. I was once at "unmvax". Then that became "unmvax.unm.edu".

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:49:36AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > I verified it with draft 7 of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x before posting. > I also confirmed that previous POSIX standards do not define a > suitable constant for gethostname(). And finally, the Single UNIX > Spec

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
[I may be a Heimdal developer, but these are just my personal views.] On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:15:46PM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > I'm posting this message from a heimdal developer to bug-hurd > for discussion on the topic of HOST_NAME_MAX. I don't have a > draft of POSIX so I can't veri

Re: oskit-mach & oskit-20010214: network

2001-09-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
Good news. The applied patch seems to work correctly. I tested oskit-mach for about an hour with a stress test. No panics:) Please look through the patch, and tell me how far away from a good patch I am. wagi Index: osenv_timer.c ==

Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:15:46PM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > However, your 1st note is something I don't agree with. For > example MAXPATHLEN is defined on many systems, but is not the best way > to find the limitations of the system because different filesystems > could have different lim