Re: libc & libpthread circular dependency

Hi! On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:11:09 +0100, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: > It used to be that Savannah’s libc could be compiled without libpthread, > because none of the source files would explicitly include . > > This is no longer the case with the recent changes where t

Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

Hi, In package uptimed-0.3.16 the following function is defined: void bg(void) { int i; /* Simple fork to run proces in the background. */ switch(fork()) { case 0: break; case -1: perror

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 11:49:48 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > In package uptimed-0.3.16 the following function is defined: > void bg(void) > { [...] > /* Close probably all file descriptors */ > for (i = 0; i close(i); [...] > } > Two questions arrives after discuss

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

Hi, On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > In package uptimed-0.3.16 the following function is defined: BTW, I had a look at uptimed before, and the main problem I faced (IIRC), was making it crash safe. uptimed is writing the current uptime into a file, and even on GN

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 13:34 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 11:49:48 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > In package uptimed-0.3.16 the following function is defined: > > void bg(void) Updated code snippet below, OK? void bg(void) { int i, fdmax; /* Simple fork to

Debian installer and /run/lock

Hi everyone, After a fresh install of debian GNU/Hurd, running aptitude was leading to the error message: E: Could not open lock file /var/lock/aptitude - open (1073741826: No such file or directory) I noticed that /var/lock is a symlink to /run/lock, but then the folder /run/lock hadn't

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 15:57:53 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Updated code snippet below, OK? > > void bg(void) > { > int i, fdmax; [...] > /* Close probably all file descriptors */ > #ifdef __USE_BSD > if ((fdmax = getdtablesize()) == -1) exit(1); > #else > if ((fd

Re: Debian installer and /run/lock

Etenil, le Tue 01 Nov 2011 14:01:13 +, a écrit : > From a bit of discussion with on the #hurd IRC, the problem might be from > the base-files package. Actually, it's because we don't start rcS.d yet. That contains a boot script which recreates /run at each reboot. In the next hurd package uplo

Re: Porting uptimed: Usage of daemon and replacement of NOFILE

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 22:30 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 15:57:53 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: .. > __USE_BSD is an internal macro used by glibc and should not be relied > on. Add a check to configure.ac instead, something like this: > > AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getdtablesize]) Ok,

Re: libc & libpthread circular dependency

Hi Thomas, Thomas Schwinge skribis: > Here is what I'm doing in cross-gnu; simply install the libpthread > headers before building glibc: > . Indeed. I’ve done the same i

[PATCH,HURD] Fix sgttyb ioctl value

Hello, Struct sgttyb contains 4 characters, not 6. Samuel 2011-11-02 Samuel Thibault * bits/ioctl-types.h (_IOT_sgttyb): Set number of chars to 4. diff --git a/bits/ioctl-types.h b/bits/ioctl-types.h index 58b78a6..ccfa4de 100644 --- a/bits/ioctl-types.h +++ b/bits/ioctl-types.h @@ -64,7 +6