Re: Some questions about libports and notification of ports

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:31 +0200, Da Zheng wrote: > I don't want to destroy the port. I just want to check if all ports have > already been destroyed before the goaway routine is called. To check, you use the counting routines provided. > The device file is created by a translator to help other

Re: The patch of glibc which allows the user to override the pfinet server

2008-08-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
hi, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Da Zheng wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:27:06PM +0200, zhengda wrote: >>> - socket_t server; >>> + socket_t server = MACH_PORT_NULL; >> >> As I already said, this is unnecessary -- it will be assigned >> unconditiona

Re: The patch of boot to open a virtual network interface

2008-08-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Da Zheng wrote: > by the way, which letter should be used for the short option? or > should I just use the long option '--device'? I think a short option is rather important, as this is likely to be used often: For running subhurds unprivileged, you

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:30:56PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:11:08PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > The situation about starting the translator could possibly be > > > handled similarly to the way

Re: Some questions about libports and notification of ports

2008-08-25 Thread Da Zheng
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:20 +0200, Da Zheng wrote: Yes, these ports have the receive rights. They are used for the user program, and I want to make sure they have all been destroyed before the translator exits, so the translator knows all user programs connected t

Re: Some questions about libports and notification of ports

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:20 +0200, Da Zheng wrote: > Yes, these ports have the receive rights. > They are used for the user program, and I want to make sure they have > all been destroyed before the translator exits, so the translator knows > all user programs connected to it have all exited and

Re: Some questions about libports and notification of ports

2008-08-25 Thread Da Zheng
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:36 +0200, Da Zheng wrote: As I said above, I have to make sure all ports created for the user program have been destroyed before the translator exits. Are these ports that the translator has the receive rights to? If so, then when th

Re: "Microkernels rule!" and the Hurd

2008-08-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag 25 August 2008 09:20:51 schrieb Neal H. Walfield: > What are you looking for that I didn't say in my note? Something which people can find easily on a Google search :) The note published as public comment on the article site would fill that role nicely, too. (just thinking about get

Re: "Microkernels rule!" and the Hurd

2008-08-25 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:53:05 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Could you write a counter-story/public reply for the Hurd-Wiki? > > It needn't be long, but it should be available online. What are you looking for that I didn't say in my note? Neal