Re: Console client plug-in options

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:48:41PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > It is hard to write a nice parser. [...] > The syntax would be: > console {OPTIONS} {-d DRIVER [suboptions]} CONSOLE I can not see how this solves the problem that it is hard to write a nice parser. The suboptions-variant has the di

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:36:56PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote: > I think all my questions are answered right now, with the exception of > file_get_translator and file_set_translator. Those two functions are > undocumented and I'd like to know if I used them the right way. They are documented in fs.d

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > My biggest problem is autoconf. It doesn't even work perfectly for the > orginal sourcecode. I've added a test to check for the Hurd by looking > for hurd.h, is that correct? Check for individual features; for example, when the featu

Re: How do I set the keyboard layout?

2003-02-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Sorry for the late reply. On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:43:46PM +0100, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > After successfully booting the Hurd, I tried in vain to find a setting for the > keyboard layout. How do I switch to the German layout? I'm sick of having to > search for every special character by trial-

Re: Unionfs

2002-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:04:11AM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Also, I find it a bit unfortunate that a simple `ls' triggers this > > already: > > > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ settrans -ac foo unionfs .. / > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ ls foo/unionfs/ > > ls: foo/unionfs/foo: Too many levels of symbolic li

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:56:14PM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > But seriously, there's lots of us out there looking forward to a stable, > fast and efficient release of the GNU/Hurd. Press on, and good luck. > I'll see if I can marshall the resources to contribute in some humble > way. The

Re: Unionfs

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:06:09PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Have fun/Happy hacking. I was just playing around with it a bit and glancing over the code; when compiling, I got the messages: gcc -o unionfs main.o node.o lnode.o ulfs.o options.o \ ncache.o netfs.o lib.o -lnetfs -lfshelp -lioh

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Possibly you want to fix your mailer to appreciate `Reply-to' headers. On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:21:46AM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > start_possible_flame() > > GNU/Hurd ultimately needs to be 'THE OS'. We can't compromise on that, > can we ?? > > end_possible_flame(). I don't know wha

Re: [OT]: Hurd microkernel portability.

2002-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:37:20PM +0600, Cherry George Mathew wrote: > Sorry to barge into the filesystems discussion, but I'm wondering > whether the hurd team has decided on what level exactly to bind the hurd > to a microkernel ? The last I heard of this on the l4-hurd list was a > discussion a

Re: NEED TO COMPLETE YOUR SOFTWARE PROJECT YESTERDAY?

2002-12-06 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:22:23AM +0600, Boris wrote: > if the deadline breakings became ordinary thing for you, > do not hesitate, consult us right now, and we answer you immediately! > Simply reply to this email or write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and we solve your problems in time. Yes, we need s

Re: client-server-IPC

2002-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:39:06AM -0800, Frank Saar wrote: > Hm, well I did. > But in the meantime I succeeded in getting a working version (thanks to > marcus) and the server is running now as a translator. But in the beginning > I didnt want to run it as a translator. Instead I wanted the server

Re: client-server-IPC

2002-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Frank Saar wrote: > But when I copy the server to /servers/testserver and run the client I get > get_random_failed -303 as error. You hopefully did not copy to the binary to this place, did you? Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang _

libcons: Opening a vcons multiple times

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Hi! `libcons/vcons-close.c:37' says that ``The same virtual console should never be opened twice''. Some part of the code seem to take into account that it might be opened multiple times, though: - `cons_vcons_open ()' does not set `vcons_entry->vcons' to `*r_vcons' itself, but leaves this to

First release of the Guile console driver

2002-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Hi! Today I quickly hacked together a console-client module that adds Guile scripting support. Currently, there are only three procedures provided (additional to all of what Guile provides already): console-switch ID Switch to console number ID. console-switch-delta DELTA Switch to another

Re: configuration files for Hurd servers?

2002-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:38:16PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Configuration file parsing could be easily done by linking the servers > against libguile (wasn't it the plan once the use Guile as a "system > scripting-language"? ...). Given that Guile should be linked into every program anyway,

Re: [Hurd-devel-readers] Re: pthread roadmap

2002-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:34:07PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > what is this cancellation stuff? is there documentation about it > somewhere? And more importantly, is this also the case when writing new servers with pthreads? (Ignoring that we need a pthreads-aware libports to make that possibl

Re: ReiserFS Translator

2002-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
> I have been talking with Wolfgang about that and he say that it will > be more interesting and usefull to implement shadowfs. Actually it was James' idea, I just said that he's a genious to come up with it. ;-) Especially given that work on different journaling file systems (if it happens at t