Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Branden writes: >> I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this.. >I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems. And Debian Hurd? Or does the Hurd not have /dev/random or /dev/urandom? I suspect that /dev/urandom may be the better cho

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kusti writes: >I believe the /dev/mem gets read only in systems where no /dev/(u)random >exists. Actually, the standard configuration is that /dev/mem is read. The code to read from /dev/(u)random isn't activated in any situation in the standard upstream X distrib

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Amery
[Apologies to readers of debian-sparc, who have already received a copy of this] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: [XDM randomness] >/dev/random? /dev/urandom? You are kidding. This randmomness is used >to create authorisation cookies for X which in my understanding provide

Re: Self-hosting Debian NetBSD system available

2002-02-07 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Blech; it would appear fakeroot does an explicit dlopen of >/lib/libc.so.6. Since I don't have root in your chroot, and, well, >fakeroot doesn't work, try changing LIBCPATH at the top of libfakeroot.c >to /usr/lib/libc.so.12 and recompiling.. > Oh, yes

Re: problems using chroot

2002-01-30 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >--8EbpmHtzgx >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Description: message body text >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi, > >chroot /debian /bin/bash is SEGVing on me; attached is the output of >ktrace -i chroot /debian /bin/bash; kdump. >

Re: Proposed patch management/build solution

2002-01-21 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >EVentually yes, but it may well be that we no longer need this system >by the time we are stable enough for a formal autobuilder. I'm >certainly willing to build packages from this tree and make them >appear in MIT AFS space, which is web accessible. > I