FHS (Re: translator for /dev/random and /dev/urandom)

2001-06-24 Thread Joshua Rosen
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 06:47:12PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote: > > Quoth Marcus Brinkmann: > > > > > Use --seed-file to store a seed file across reboots (in /var/run). > > > > At least in Debian GNU hurd, the boot scripts seem to do this: > > > > if test -d /var/run

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Joshua Rosen
Eray Ozkural (exa) writes: > For instance, do you really need to write hurd servers in different languages? > How useful/suitable would a server written in "perl" be? Whell, I, for one, would love to see RMS's original projection that "Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming lan

Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient]

2000-12-23 Thread Joshua Rosen
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:51:34PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:10:45AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > > If you are going to take that approach, i.e. a memory-based disk rather > > > > than a memory-based filesystem, I would suggest

Re: No more Mails please.

2000-10-11 Thread Joshua Rosen
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes: > On 20001011T130325+0000, Joshua Rosen wrote: > > Why do you say that? > > I imagine that it's to keep you from messing up *other* persons' > > subscriptions. > > Of course it is. But it is also keeping (or rather slowing)

Re: No more Mails please.

2000-10-11 Thread Joshua Rosen
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes: > On 20001010T070348-0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > When you get your password in the mail, you can use it in the first > > page to unsubscribe. > > > > IMHO any mailing list that requires passwords to unsubscribe is broken. Why do you say that? I imagine th