Re: I'm looking for the gopherfs translator

2001-10-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:20:07PM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > I found a reference to a gopherfs translator by Igor last december. > Does anyone have the source for this translator. Ok, attached are two versions of gopherfs code that I found on my HD. I'm really not sure which one is more rece

libgc-6.0

2001-09-02 Thread Igor Khavkine
A new upstream version of of libgc is in the archive. It contains the patches that I sent upstream, so it should build on Hurd without problems. Unfortunately at the moment I'm unable to test this assertion. Please compile, test and add the autobuilder (that would be Marcus at the moment :-). Igo

Re: [JOB] magpie

2001-08-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:30:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > magpie tries to call a function setfsuid(), whatever that is. > This is not defined, maybe som #ifdef problem. setfsuid() seems to be a linux-specific system call. from /usr/include/sys/fsuid.h (on linux): /* Change uid

Re: [JOB] bonnie++

2001-08-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:54:37AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > bonnie uses sa_sigaction and SA_RESETHAND, which we don't have. > > Marcus If you remember Roland added this functionality to the current glibc tree so it will be in the next release. Igor

Re: stat() and its consequences (was: Re: Strange behavior while copying files)

2001-08-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:50:56PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > As an example, say that I have a translator installed as /dev/foo, and > when started, it also wants to translate some related node /dev/bar. > In this case, I think it is inappropriate for the translator to refer > to the other node

Re: A REAL installation opportunity!

2001-08-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unfortunately Hurd does not support Alpha yet. There was an attempt > > to port gnumach to Alpha, which would go most of the way to porting > > Hurd to t

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:38:49PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:49:05AM -0700, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:56:12PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > > If you truly want to fix this code, you should get the POSIX standard > > extended so that it de

Re: A REAL installation opportunity!

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Ted Rolle wrote: > I inherited an Alpha box with no hard drive. I'm going to Fry's to get a > 30-40G HD and a RW CD-ROM drive. > > I'd like to install Hurd on the box. > > Where to from here? > > Do I have to install Linux first? Can I boot from a flop

Outstanding patches in the BTS

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
There are 5 outstanding Hurd related bugs from me with patches in the Debian BTS. libsaal7: #95881 libgc5: #99084 The maintainer didn't answer any of my emails, the upstream version (libgc6) will have Hurd support when released, but that could still be a while. smail: #99

Re: status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:09AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > Also how much of the pthreads implementation is finished? I want to > try tekNap on hurd, but it needs pthreads. Not useable yet. The development was stalled because I needed to learn more about glibc internals. But then I got si

stat() and its consequences (was: Re: Strange behavior while copying files)

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:38:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The strange thing happens when this is done, if I look in my / I > > have a ton of pty* and tty* device files created there, even though > >

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-10 Thread Igor Khavkine
Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > May I suggest a code generating macro instead: > > > > #define PRINT_FS(pref, fs, suf) \ > > case pref##fs##suf: \ > > printf (#fs "\n"); \ > > break; > > If all operating systems recognized all filesystems, this would be > reasonable

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-10 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:56:12PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:37:11PM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote: > all_fstypes > === > UFS > NFS > GFS > LFS > ... > > a script to convert to C: > > gen_printf_all_fstypes > == > #! /bin/sh > sed 's/.

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-10 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:29:15AM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:26:30PM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote: > > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a member of stat structure fsid. its declared

Re: Strange behavior while copying files

2001-08-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:45:10PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to copy a large directory /sub to a partition mounted > > on /local. /sub contains a functioning Hurd filesystem produced > > from the initial tarball. I used this command > > > > # cd /sub > > # cp -a * /local/ >

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:26:30PM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hi > > > > stat > > some structure/header confusion > > can i make changes in /include/bits/types.h to make stat work... > if yes then i will send the patch. > > i have tried c

Strange behavior while copying files

2001-08-06 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I'm trying to copy a large directory /sub to a partition mounted on /local. /sub contains a functioning Hurd filesystem produced from the initial tarball. I used this command # cd /sub # cp -a * /local/ First, it's very slow, but that's a known problem. After a while it spurts out these messa

Re: gnumach crosscompile

2001-08-03 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Andrea Leofreddi wrote: > It's possible to cross compile GNU/Mach under GNU/Linux? Yes, you will need the i386-gnu-{gcc,mig} packages and hurd installation mounted preferably on /gnu. This comes up quite often on the mailing list. You can check the archive

Re: Call for Projects

2001-07-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:25:50PM +0200, Patrick Strasser wrote: > > I plan to set up and publish every month a list of Hurd projects. > > We have the task manager at savannah.gnu.org. Somebody could put some > thought into whi

Re: liblockfile and libpaper fixes in BTS

2001-07-08 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:09:02AM -0700, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: > > Greetings, > Just to let you all know, I've submitted patches for libpaper and liblockfile > to the bug tracking system that allows them to compile (and persumably work) > on HURD. They both had MAXPATHLEN issues and

Re: Packages

2001-06-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:07:53PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > Any package that says "failed" needs someone to look at it. There are > a number of packages that should only be compiled under linux. There > are packages that have bad debian scripts. Every one fixed gets us > closer to 80%. If

Re: "up to date" CD sets

2001-06-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:53:31AM +0100, first last wrote: >Hi again. I have a couple silly question. > >Where can I get the most up to date CD's for > installing HURD? It has to be on CD, as I download > from > work and install at home. Hopefully I will have > Internet > access at home

Re: remote X applications

2001-06-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:16:18PM +0100, Paul Emsley wrote: > > "MB" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MB> Can you please try to port [mcookie]? > > Actually, it was very easy, I changed __linux__ to __GNU__ in > mcookie.c and typed make. Tada! (I thin

Re: remote X applications

2001-06-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:29:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (And on a completely different topic: (building oskit-mach) > where can I get cpus.h?) It should be located at [gnumach]/cpus.h. If it's not you should redownload your source tree. Igor

Re: Outstanding patches in the BTS

2001-06-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:59:36AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > Hi, there are four outstanding bugs in the BTS from me > > containing Hurd related patches for: > > libsasl7 (#95881) > > libgc5 (#

Outstanding patches in the BTS

2001-06-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, there are four outstanding bugs in the BTS from me containing Hurd related patches for: libsasl7 (#95881) libgc5 (#98084) smail(#98085) w3m (#98086) One bug has been resolved: bsd-games (#98562) bsd-games can be added to the autobuilder if it hasn't been already. But what about th

Re: Exim

2001-06-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:14:08AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:03:32PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:21:10AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > &

Re: Exim

2001-06-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:21:10AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > > Waiting on the new gcc-3.0. The one in the archive is 2.95 > > My screen this morning showed that GCC has compiled, but the packaging > wanted a boehm collector fo

Re: pthreads imported to the Sourceforge CVS

2001-06-15 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:52:59PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I have a couple of questions then. The code relies heavily on the > > use of __spin_lock operations, however they are mach specific. > > Only __spin_lock_solid is actually Mach-specific, and that only in its > implementation and n

Re: pthreads imported to the Sourceforge CVS

2001-06-15 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:28:02PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > The only kind of pthreads implementation that I am interested in long-term > is one that is intended to integrate tightly with glibc as linuxthreads > does, and is written portably in the libc style so as to have a > partially-shared

Re: pthreads imported to the Sourceforge CVS

2001-06-15 Thread Igor Khavkine
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:56:37AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:43:56AM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > > > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > and all the files ended up i

Re: pthreads imported to the Sourceforge CVS

2001-06-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:43:56AM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > and all the files ended up in pthread/libc/libc/ instead of > > pthreads/libc. So can someone with a clue take a look at this mess > > and try and fix it?

pthreads imported to the Sourceforge CVS

2001-06-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, eveyone. I've taken up the pthreads work again. To anyone who's tried to build the pthreads tarball that I "released" the last time, I am sorry to have unleashed such a beast on you. I've added simple Makefiles, and made sure that everything at least compiles without any fuss. Now it's time to

Re: Low level access

2001-06-07 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:15:19PM +0200, Jonathan Liger wrote: > > Hi, I just wanted to know wether mach provided any functions similar to > the linux kernel in[bwl] or out[bwl] ... > > Thank you in advance, :) > > Jonathan Liger. There are in[bwl] and out[bwl] functions defined in the M

Re: gnumach & plex86

2001-06-07 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > if you want to boot gnumach in plex86, make sure you disable FPE by > commenting out the line in i386/bogus/fpe.h Otherwise Mach will panic in > fpe_init(). > > Now it comes as far as probing devices, but I have no time

Re: gnumach & plex86

2001-06-07 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > It's a good thing that I finally got a second box. Right now I'm trying > > to set it up so I could comunicate with it through the serial port. > > BTW, does anyone have suggestions for serial line communication programs > > other

Re: openssh on hurd

2001-05-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:03:37PM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > I haven't gone and made a patch but openssh 2.9 uses setrlimit(). > > It doesn't seem to be in the porting FAQ but it would be a nice place > to have information of getting around setrlimit(). > What's wrong with using setrlimi

Re: More packages ported

2001-05-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:41:01PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > libgc5 - patch taken from Chris Lingard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've tried getting in touch with Chris using the email above. But it bounced on me. Does anyone know his current address? Thanks. Igor

More packages ported

2001-05-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I've just looked at a couple more packages to build on Hurd. They are libgc5 - patch taken from Chris Lingard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w3m smail All build and work properly (tested). I've submitted the appropriate patches as bugs to Debian maintainers. Jeff, once the patches are applied, you can

Re: Hurd's configure.in

2001-05-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > Ok, then it's the case that autoconf-2.50 is incompatible with current libc > also. Why don't you report that to bug-glibc? I'll wait to see how it's > resolved in libc and then do the same for hurd and gnumach. I just sent a mess

Re: Hurd's configure.in

2001-05-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:22:23PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > libc's aclocal.m4 has macros that appear to have the same intent as the one > in the hurd's aclocal.m4 (I'm not entirely clear on what the point of these > actually is). Can you try replacing your hurd aclocal.m4 with the > followin

Re: Hurd's configure.in

2001-05-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
hangeLog === RCS file: /cvs/hurd/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.88 diff -u -r1.88 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2001/03/12 00:43:09 1.88 +++ ChangeLog 2001/05/27 20:27:47 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2001-05-27 Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * aclocal.m4: removed the deprecated macros

Re: Hurd's configure.in

2001-05-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:25:34PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:06:18PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > > script with the command `aclocal; autoconf' I get these erorors: > > > > configure:1336: error: possibly undefined macro: A

Hurd's configure.in

2001-05-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I just pulled the Hurd souces from CVS and tried to build it. However I ran into a problem right away. When trying to generate a configure script with the command `aclocal; autoconf' I get these erorors: configure:1336: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_CC_GNU configure:1313: error: po

Re: Another package ported

2001-05-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:26:48PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > The only changes were the standard MAX*LEN problems. In the case > > of MAXHOSTNAMELEN, I just defined it to 256 following SUSv2. Even > > tho

gpm build

2001-05-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I noticed on your debian page that turte was trying to build gpm. That will not work. I took a look at that package a while back. It contains too many linuxisms. The author even says somewhere in the comments somethink like "it doesn't matters, since this code was never designed to be portable

Another package ported

2001-05-23 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I ported bsdgames. So now it can be added to autobuilder (this part is for you Jeff). The patch is available from my site http://alcor.concordia.ca/~i_khavki/ and I will submit a bug report. The only changes were the standard MAX*LEN problems. In the case of MAXHOSTNAMELEN, I just defined it t

Just tried tarball+apt-get method

2001-05-22 Thread Igor Khavkine
I decied to reinstall Hurd, because my installation was pretty dated. Marcus recommended that I use the tarball and then apt-get. It worked out ok once I got apt going. Except when I tried to install the packages that I need for development. Turns out that there is one single package in the archiv

Re: compiling packages

2001-04-30 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:21:52AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > While doing all of this, I never submitted patches for libsasl (which > appeared to work OK, except you need to use the latest libtool for > similar reasons described above). Please do file a bug report. Ok, I've submitted a bug against

Re: compiling packages

2001-04-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:34:21PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:35:20PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > > I am compiling cyrus-sasl, and have encountered a problem doesn't > > > exist (or am I blind? ): > > > I've already g

Re: Hurd SMP (lack of) progress report.

2001-04-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:59:51AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > Well, I'm hooked up with Cable-Modem internet now though... Yippee! > I have been very busy playing QuakeForge Team Fortress, you know, uh, > debugging it and stuff :-) > > I have successfully compiled OSkit for Hurd and Linux, b

Re: Wow! I just built oskit in Hurd!

2001-04-17 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > ... and the smp sample kernel booted! > > It took a grueling 75 minutes, wherein my spiffy UW SCSI > hard drive made incessant grinding crunchy noises the likes > of which I haven't heard since about 1990 with a ST225 MFM > drive

Re: Trouble with oskit-mach

2001-04-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:40:37PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > Hi all > > I've been attempting to get oskit-mach up and running but get stuck at > booting. I configured CVS oskit-mach to use floppy, ide, ne2k and > ne2kpci drivers, put the compiled oskit-mach in /boot and this in my > GRUB menu.lst: >

Re: Status update

2001-03-18 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:37:47PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: [ snip ] > mutt: Wants libsasl [ snip ] You should add libsasl to your package list, you only need to apply my patch (http://alcor.concordia.ca/~i_khavki/cyrus-sasl-1.5.24.diff.gz) I don't think I ever submitted it to the debian maintain

Re: pthreads in hurd

2001-03-05 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Erik Verbruggen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:09:39PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > Mark Kettenis did substantial work on a native implementation of > > pthreads as part of the glibc. I continued the work and implemented > &

Re: pthreads in hurd

2001-03-05 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:58:18AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:50:50AM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > > The other thing is that bits/pthread.h doesn't have anything that > > > defines _HURD_THREADVAR_THREAD. I have looked through the v

Re: pthreads in hurd

2001-03-05 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:10:14PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:09:39PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > Mark Kettenis did substantial work on a native implementation of > > pthreads as part of the glibc. I continued the work and implemented > >

Re: CORBA vs MIG

2001-03-01 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:53:56PM -0500, Ingmar Schuster wrote: > Hi there... > > As far as I can see no one's talking about that MIG/CORBA thing anymore. I > wouldn't mind if I knew what is happening now. > I'd like to aid with development, but... Is anyone working on an > implementation of Corb

Re: pthreads in hurd

2001-02-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:09:09PM +0100, Erik Verbruggen wrote: > Hi all, > > I checked the *hurd archives, and as far as I can see, no-one is working > on pthreads for Hurd. Is that right? If this is the case, I hereby > volonteer to write a pthread-to-cthread wrapper "package". As far as I > ca

Re: compiling packages

2001-02-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:11:45PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > >>>>> "Igor" == Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Igor> I've already got that package

Re: compiling packages

2001-02-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:20:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > I am compiling cyrus-sasl, and have encountered a problem doesn't > exist (or am I blind? ): > I've already got that package to compile, and I announced it on this list at the same time as the work I did openldap (still not

Re: More info

2001-02-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:56:51PM +0100, Jaroslaw Berezowski wrote: > > Hi > > Could anyone gather links to most important and up-to-date HURD > sites/resources (with short description) and post it from time to time > to this list? > > I could see on some lists that one person is responsible fo

Re: SysV IPC

2001-02-23 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:30:11PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > I don't think anyone has specific plans. I have thought a bit about > implementing the SysV SHM interfaces, which would be pretty easy. > > But SysV IPC is another story. I was not aware that much of anything used > SysV IPC for a

SysV IPC

2001-02-23 Thread Igor Khavkine
Are there any plans to implement SysV type IPC library calls for Hurd (for example msgsnd(), msgrcv(), msgctl(), etc.) or has it been decided that it will not be implemented and all the programs that rely on it will have to be converted? Igor

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-13 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:21:16AM +0100, Farid Hajji wrote: > > We're talking about a microkernel arch, but still I'm > > not sure if turning hurd into gnome is a good idea. > [...] > > Interoperability is a good idea, but if you bloat the > > whole code with interoperability stuff then it blows u

Re: HURD and bochs

2001-02-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:59:54PM -0500, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > I've read some archived messages about this, but has anyone yet > successfully gotten the hurd to run inside a bochs machine? I'm a bit > confused about how to set it up, and any help would be appreciated. I've > been trying to follo

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Mridul Jain wrote: > > > > hi, > > As I was preparing to work on the topic - Corba > > replacement for MIG ; > > Make sure it doesn't turn out to yield a Java level performance. ;) > > That standard called Corba was not tailor

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-07 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:14:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Mridul" == Mridul Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Mridul> protocol is that It is the Corba standard.If I want a > Mridul> "TRUE" Corba implementation in GNUMach/HURD then the > Mridul> protocol should be IIO

Re: Q: Hurd & pthreads

2001-01-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:35:57AM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:37:11PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > I mentioned to Neal before that I started doing some work on that. > > I actually implemented all the missing pthread functions except > > pthread

Re: Q: Hurd & pthreads

2001-01-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:10:37AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > A bit: The hurd is not the one that will support pthreads -- it will be > glibc. > > > What is the best approach to Hurd to implement pthreads? > > Start with what Mark has: http://soliton.wins.uva.nl/~kettenis/pthread/ > I me

Re: installing gtk+1.2.8

2001-01-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:16:22PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > HURD does not have a MAXPATHLEN defined. Anyone know what the best > work-around is for that? Generally, I've just modified a header file to > set it to 2-4k or something. Is there a better way? Generally, people > like alloca

Re: Different roots for each process possible?

2001-01-15 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:33:48AM +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote: > In plan9 it is possible for any process to change its namespace > (i.e. a kind of directory tree) and that of its children independently. > Is such a thing possible in HURD, too? How? Do you need a > translator on / ? > > -- > Ste

Re: Small bug in libnetfs

2000-12-20 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:05:49AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:32:16PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > I came across a potential segfault in the libnetfs code. > > Ah, yup. And that's not the only one of this type. You also find this in >

First go at a translator

2000-12-19 Thread Igor Khavkine
I've decided to dabble in the translator arts. I'm trying to write a simple gopherfs translator, I've looked at example code from ftpfs and libnetfs and I'm basing my code on that. I've written most of it and i'm trying to run it and see where things break, but whenever I try to settrans it on som

Makefile-ish init

2000-12-17 Thread Igor Khavkine
There's been a lot of talk about this here. But someone was actually already working on this for linux. Just saw an announcement for jinit (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.fremlin/programs/linux/jinit/) on freshmeat. Looks very interesting. Igor

Re: Plex86 boots GRUB

2000-12-10 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:54:36AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > plex86 CVS version boots GRUB. This means that you can try to boot gnumach > and eventually the Hurd in plex86. With increasing performance of plex86, > this might be a good alternative to dual boot under some circumstance

Re: Packages needing to be tested

2000-12-06 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:00:06PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > Maybe we can make translators register with /etc/mtab, like processes > > register with proc. ext2fs would register with /etc/mtab, so would > > ufs, but not necessarily ftpfs or tarfs (whenever that's done). > > You want filesys

Re: Packages needing to be tested

2000-12-06 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Cord Beermann wrote: > > Hallo! Du (Neal H Walfield) hast geschrieben: > > > > >So, take a look and try to give one build: > > > > > ># apt-get source --compile package > > > > if i unders

Re: cross compile gnumach and hurd

2000-12-05 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Farid Hajji writes: > [...] > > The biggest problem I encountered in installing a cross-compiled Hurd > > from FreeBSD was, that mke2fs was not available there and e2fstools > > contained too many Linux dependencies to be compilab

Re: OpenLDAP patch

2000-11-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
A follow up... openldap needs libsasl7-dev to compile, that package wasn't in the Debian archive so I had to patch it too. Here is the patch. Igor diff -ur cyrus-sasl-1.5.24/include/saslplug.h cyrus-sasl-1.5.24.new/include/saslplug.h --- cyrus-sasl-1.5.24/include/saslplug.hSun Feb 27 1

Re: gnumach recompilation glitch

2000-11-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:04:06AM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > Expanding on that a bit. You need to get the gcc-i386-gnu and mig-i386-gnu > > packages, as well as set up a few environment viraibles. I put them

OpenLDAP patch

2000-11-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I just happen to have some time between assignments and exams, and so I finished my work on OpenLDAP. The patch is attached and you can also find it on my new site http://multiverse.twu.net/. Just put the patch into the debian/patches directory, the only glitch is that you have to regenerate t

Re: gnumach recompilation glitch

2000-11-26 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:14:59AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:32:06PM -0600, David Leimbach wrote: > > Where is the debian source? > > On any Debian server. > ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/base/gnumach_* > > Use dpkg-source -x *dsc to extract it

Re: PPP port: Quick question about file_name_lookup function

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:30:40AM -0600, Daniel E Baumann wrote: > Hi, I am currently hacking around the routing stuff in PPP by just allowing > you to do "add default HISADDR", which makes the peer at the other end the > gateway and no other routing entries can be made or removed (at least not

Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM

2000-11-02 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > > For the next couple of weeks I'll be lying low because I won't have almost > > any > > time for hurd related work. And in the mean time I leave you to pond

Re: bitchx

2000-11-01 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:44:00PM +, Francis Tyers wrote: > hi, > > for those of you who don't hang out on #hurd, just to let you know the > latest BitchX, version > 1.0c18 includes my patches for hurd and will compile clean without > having to do anything. > > All that is needed now is a .

Re: Porting the Hurd to L4 (glibc dependencies, dropping glibc?)

2000-10-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:57:41PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Perhaps there should just be another mailing for wild speculations about > random development ideas tangentially related to the Hurd development > effort. Then I would read that one when I was in that kind of mood. These > lists re

Re: Second shot at PAM

2000-10-29 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 01:13:20AM +0400, Stefanus Du Toit wrote: > Hi Igor, > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:38:32AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > Ok, I took took heed of the comments that I recieved and I updated > > the patch. So here it is, less __GNU__ and more co

Second shot at PAM

2000-10-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
Ok, I took took heed of the comments that I recieved and I updated the patch. So here it is, less __GNU__ and more common sense. The patch should work for Linux and Hurd so it can be incorporated into the debian package right away, whether it should be submitted to the upstream maintainers should

Re: [Hurd-alpha-devel] Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:14:18AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > MACH uses cthreads, we figured it would keep things easier by going that > > route. If you think otherwise I'd like to know why? > > Isn't your (ultimate) goal to remove Mach-things from Hurd? cthreads > is a Mach-only multith

Re: ssh success

2000-10-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:31:04PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Am Mit, 25 Okt 2000 07:43:37 schrieb Igor Khavkine: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:25:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > >

PAM, first look

2000-10-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
I just gave a shot to compiling PAM for Hurd. It actually went quite smoothly. It builds (well, cross-builds actually) after some light patching without major problems. However when I try to build it natively from Hurd, I get all sorts of weirdness. First suddenly the order of making the `modules'

Re: ssh success

2000-10-25 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:25:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > > openssh itself needed several kludges: I replaced MAXHOSTNAME in a > > > > couple of files with a "enough for everyone" value. Evil, but at the > > > > time I

Re: MAXHOSTNAMLEN

2000-10-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:59:49AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am just wondering whether the values for > > MAXHOSTNAMELEN = 64 > and > MAXPATHLEN = 512 > > are correct for the Hurd. > > > When compiling progs that need these values I had to exchange the variables > w

Re: Oskit-Mach

2000-10-09 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:59:45PM -0600, Chris Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > Where oskit-mach is located? I'd like to give it a try. > > -cls > Just checkout the gnumach source out of the CVS repository on subversions.gnu.org. Make sure you check out the `oskit-branch' branch (it's the -j optio

Re: Trying to compile Epic

2000-09-30 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:40:53PM +, Frederico S. Muñoz wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to compile Epic (partly because I think that GNU/Hurd would > benefict from having an IRC client, and I'm partial to Epic - instead > of BitchX, for example, altough I would really like to have a non

Re: I've got it! (Re: oskit-mach)

2000-09-30 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:41:55PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > The reboot comes from a `panic' call from the `free_for_oskit' routine > > in [gnumach]/oskit/osenv_mem.c. Here's that piece of code: > > Interesting. Can you show me the stack trace? The oskit panic routine > should print out a

I've got it! (Re: oskit-mach)

2000-09-30 Thread Igor Khavkine
Finally, I've been able to find the source of my mysterious reboots when booting oskit-mach. The reboot comes from a `panic' call from the `free_for_oskit' routine in [gnumach]/oskit/osenv_mem.c. Here's that piece of code: --- snip --- if (in_oskit_interrupt) { /* oy */

Oskit-mach followup

2000-09-27 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, after a prolonged absence I'm finally back online. But I've falling behind on the mailing list a bit. My current priority is to try and get oskit-mach to boot on my machine. As I've mentioned before, on my machine when oskit-mach boots it basically crashes and/or instantly reeboots, first when

Re: IPv6?

2000-09-12 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:29:16PM -0500, rt wrote: > > ipv6 is a special case because ipv4 and ipv6 are intimately related. I > > think you want the code to be shared so the server can dtrt for "v4 compat" > > IPv6 addresses. > > > most ip stacks are implemented like this, so i was planni

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