Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?)

2007-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:56:18 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:01 -0700, > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > We're still being again and again annoyed by p

Re: Announcing the slow burial of the Hurd Wiki

2007-04-11 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On 4/11/07, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! Hi there! :-) On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:19:59AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > On 8/11/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thomas Schwinge has been working on finding a replacement for the wiki, > >but he is on vacati

Re: Announcing the slow burial of the Hurd Wiki

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:19:59AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > On 8/11/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thomas Schwinge has been working on finding a replacement for the wiki, > >but he is on vacation currently and will be back in September. > > OK, sounds good. Sorry f

Re: Setting ones's priorities (was: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends)

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:57 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:10:01PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX' > > > unconditio

Re: Patch for mach ne

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
Well, looking at the kernel, this driver was moved from ne.c to ne2k because ne.c was for ISA and then ne2k was created for PCI NE2000 cards. The card is at the absolute bottom of the list. Anyway, I took a peak at the ne.c and ne2k.c drivers in Linux-2.6.17: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/l

Re: I/O permission control in OSKit-Mach

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:16:25PM +0200, I wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:26:51PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > The old device_emulation_ops stuff in i386at is similar, > > i.e. it provides hooks to implement the device RPCs. > > But where would be the correct place in GNU Mach to

Re: Patch for mach ne

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:23:17AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > For anyone who's been following the epic story unfolding in IRC, > after a few days of fighting with it, I was able to get it working > (it was surprisingly easy after Tom got me pointed in the right > direction).

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: gnumach ChangeLog config.status.dep.patch [gnumach-1-branch]]

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:50:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > 12:22:41 up 6 days, 6:00, 20 users, load average: 145.63, 71.19, 28.72 > Does somebody want to try that on a GNU/Hurd system? ;-) I "tried" that when I built the Debian gcc-4.1 package from experimental it had something like "

Setting ones's priorities (was: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends)

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:10:01PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX' > > unconditionally. > > Why stop with this one? So, if I interpret things correct

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: gnumach ChangeLog config.status.dep.patch [gnumach-1-branch]]

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! | mach doesn't like being built with -j2 Indeed. I installed the following to fix this: #v+ CVSROOT:/cvsroot/hurd Module name:gnumach Branch: gnumach-1-branch Changes by: Thomas Schwinge 07/04/11 10:41:54 Modified files: . : ChangeLog c

Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?)

2007-04-11 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:18AM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Legacy compatibility has always ruled the day. Standards compatibility, not bug compatibility... -antrik- ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?)

2007-04-11 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:01 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > Hello! > > > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX' > > unconditionally. > > Why stop with this one?

Patch for mach ne

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
For anyone who's been following the epic story unfolding in IRC, after a few days of fighting with it, I was able to get it working (it was surprisingly easy after Tom got me pointed in the right direction). Anyway, here's my patch, and the changelog entry: 2007-04-11 Michael Casadevall *