Re: io-seek fixes.

2004-09-26 Thread Roland McGrath
Seeing all that repeated change makes me think we should have an iohelp function to do the computation and checking for you, e.g. error_t iohelp_seek (off_t *stored_pos, off_t end_pos, off_t offs, int whence, off_t *new_offs); Would you like to do that? Thanks, Roland ___

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Harley D. Eades III
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Added to that, if anyone has a patch, just send it in. I am willing > to proof read every patch that makes sense. And I am sure a lot of > people will do the same. I would be happy to. I am possibly going to have a small patch for the ref manual here

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
no one is interested in working on the Hurd Reference Guide. I am. I can not remember a single patch for it sent to the mailinglists as long as I am subscribed (almost 3 years). Then you have utterly crappy memory. James has sent patches for it on occassions during these 3 years you n

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yaakov Nemoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It can be better than one Wiki, but I think that we need a on-line >> version that the people can read the newest modifications. Because >> If only a group, or one person, works in this job the manual could >> turn boring and discourage people to send f

Bug#273507: Final solution for SUID programs

2004-09-26 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Package: hurd Version: 20040508-4 UNRELEASED Severity: important Tags: sid patch SVN hurd package doesn't really set SUID bit for /bin/login because chmod u+s is not executed on the correct file. The attached patch sets SUID of /bin/login and other SUID programs. Regards, ogi Index: rules =

Bug#273508: Fix for invocation of e2fsprogs's fsck

2004-09-26 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Package: hurd Version: 20040508-4 UNRELEASED Tags: sid patch The fsck is called with options -C -R -A. But -R option is for not fsck:ing the root filesystem. The attached patch fixes this, and also correctly remounts the root filesystem. Regards, ogi --- rc 2004-09-26 19:58:38.0 +0300

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Why oh why won't you two shutup and start writting documentation instead? :-) You _will_ have to send a patch here no matter what, you _will_ have convert it from the wiki format to texinfo and back again-- waste of time, IMHO. Why not skip those extra steps and just do it the way it was meant to

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
> > > It can be better than one Wiki, but I think that we need a on-line version that > > > the people can read the newest modifications. Because If only a group, or one > > > person, works in this job the manual could turn boring and discourage people to > > > send fixes. I think that we need m

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Leonardo Pereira
> > > > It can be better than one Wiki, but I think that we need a on-line version that > > the people can read the newest modifications. Because If only a group, or one > > person, works in this job the manual could turn boring and discourage people to > > send fixes. I think that we need most

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
> > It can be better than one Wiki, but I think that we need a on-line version that the > people can read the newest modifications. Because If only a group, or one person, > works in this job the manual could turn boring and discourage people to send fixes. > I think that we need most people po

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Leonardo Pereira
> "Leonardo Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had said that frow Wiki one person can get the texts, confer they and write the > > others kind of manual. This can be used only to create the new manual, because > > it's faster, after you can get the new manual and update it how do you w

Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Leonardo Pereira
I had said that frow Wiki one person can get the texts, confer they and write the others kind of manual. This can be used only to create the new manual, because it's faster, after you can get the new manual and update it how do you want. -- __ Check o

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Re: The Hurd Reference Manual - overhaul

2004-09-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
GNU manuals have always been intended to serve as both good introductions that can be read straight through, and as reference manuals. You don't have to give a manual a meaningless structure to make it easy to find things by name. Good indexes and good menus can do that. Well, the