Re: [patch] null-pointer exception in hurd/libpipe/pq.c

2006-07-25 Thread Stefan Siegl
Hello! On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > How / why did this happen for you and why didn't it happen for other > people in the past? well, I noticed the bug when I tried to use ssh's ControlMaster feature (see its manpage for details). Short, to reproduce it, sta

Re: GNU Mach glue code update

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:57:38PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > Personally, i am not biased towards porting freebsd or linux drivers. > Using one or the other has its pros and cons. However, linux > device drivers are better documented than than of freebsd's. I > don't think that the freeb

Re: GNU Mach glue code update

2006-07-25 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
I think it is clear that writing glue code is the way to go with the current gnumach driver framework. Personally, i am not biased towards porting freebsd or linux drivers. Using one or the other has its pros and cons. However, linux device drivers are better documented than than of freebsd's. I

Re: [patch] null-pointer exception in hurd/libpipe/pq.c

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:11:04PM +0200, Stefan Siegl wrote: > pipe_send (from libpipe/pipe.c) calls packet_write with a NULL > pointer as the fourth argument (size_t *amount), if a control packet > is to be sent. However packet_write hasn't cared for the NULL > pointer but tried to pass