Re: A niche for the Hurd - dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb

2008-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 02 Nov 2008 01:03:47 +0100, a écrit : > Am Montag 20 Oktober 2008 15:00:22 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > - Nice features: dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb > > Could you explain what this does? It installs (-i) the deb packages from the bar/ path of server foo, but only i

Re: A niche for the Hurd - dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb

2008-11-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag 20 Oktober 2008 15:00:22 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > - Nice features: dpkg -iO ftp://foo/bar/*.deb Could you explain what this does? Best wishes, Arne -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - si

What shall the filter do to bottommost translators

2008-11-01 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello! I've just encountered a problem in developing the filter for static translator stacks for nsmux. Let me explain the current architecture so that my question becomes clear. When nsmux is asked to do a magic lookup, it creates a new mirror node and sets the requested translator(s) on it. Whe

Re: Weird O_RDWR flag definition

2008-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Tkac, le Fri 31 Oct 2008 23:56:27 +0100, a écrit : > I think O_RDWR definition should be revised, isn't it? See POSIX: « In historical implementations the value of O_RDONLY is zero. Because of that, it is not possible to detect the presence of O_RDONLY and another option. Future implementati

Weird O_RDWR flag definition

2008-11-01 Thread Adam Tkac
Hi all, I've found weird issue with O_RDWR access flag. When you want check if file is opened for read-only or read-write access you can write code like: if (mode & O_WRONLY) die(); That piece of code should fail only if file is opened with write-only access mode. Main problem is that G