Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends

Hello! On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:59:44PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > I appreciate the intent of your suggestion, but I don't think it can > actually meet its goals. I agree. I surrender. I have to. On a technical basis. Thanks for pointing this out. I totally missed the two cases ``globa

Whence Hurd (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?)

Hello! On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > I think tb has covered the essence here already. tschwinge, your comments > here are really not apropos, and frankly they seem gratuitously hostile to > the basic principles that have always driven Hurd development. I apolo

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

I appreciate the intent of your suggestion, but I don't think it can actually meet its goals. I don't think that defining PATH_MAX invalidly will actually be a net gain at all. If defined, PATH_MAX must be a constant. If you have a plan and you cannot compile: static char name[PATH_MAX]

Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?

I think tb has covered the essence here already. tschwinge, your comments here are really not apropos, and frankly they seem gratuitously hostile to the basic principles that have always driven Hurd development. I really do appreciate your frustrations. We've felt them for a very long time too.

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

> W00t, welcome Fredrik, and good luck!!! > > Barry deFreese (aka bddebian) Thanks Barry! Fredrik ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > Hi! > bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on > , ``designing and writing libchannel, > a library for streams'', as a Google Summer of Code 2

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on , ``designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams'', as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Richard Braun will officially be his mentor, but of cour

Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel (was: Google Summer of Code 2007)

Hello! bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on , ``designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams'', as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Richard Braun will officially be his mentor, but of course we all will support th