Re: RFC: [PATCH] SCM_CREDS support

2013-10-24 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:38:11 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Well, the question is quite simple: what happens when the sender > > provides faked ports, e.g. pointing to other proc/auth servers? That's > > where having to explain how the patch is working would possibly even > > work out the securi

Re: [PATCH 3/5] console-client: replace function epilogue with console_exit

2013-10-10 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:08:20 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > * console-client/console.c (main): Replace epilogue with console_exit. > --- > console-client/console.c |3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/console-client/console.c b/console-client/console.c >

Re: Hacking gnumach to track parental relationship of tasks

2013-09-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:57:41 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > I made two rather small and (as I thought) straight forward changes to > gnumach to keep track of a tasks father task and to make this > information available. What happens when the parent task is destroyed? Are the children destroyed wit

Re: [PATCH 10/16] hurd: add fsys_get_children

2013-07-30 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:44:22 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:20:32PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > > fsys_get_children returns any active translators bound to nodes of the > > > receiving filesystem as an argz vector containing file names re

Re: [PATCH 10/16] hurd: add fsys_get_children

2013-07-30 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:59:18 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > fsys_get_children returns any active translators bound to nodes of the > receiving filesystem as an argz vector containing file names relative > to the root of the receiving translator. What if the caller is chrooted? The filenames sho

uploaders

2013-07-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
ev > + xkb-data, gawk, flex, bison, autotools-dev, libdaemon-dev > Uploaders: Jeff Bailey , > Neal H. Walfield , Michael Banck , > Samuel Thibault I just noticed this. I'm not a DD any more. And, Jeff hasn't been active in years. It might be appropriate to prune the

Re: Hurd stacks, some more (was: RFC: ruby1.9.1 FTBFS)

2013-07-04 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:06:09 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > I wonder: if MAP_STACK is set, would it even be > reasonable for mmap to ignore the supplied length, and instead use the > one "proper" value, 0x20? I think that this is only acceptable if the length exceeds the supplied length. This

Re: Comments on libmemcached patch?

2011-09-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> For this patch, the amount of data dynamically allocated is not large, a > few strings of size much less than PATH_MAX of 4096 bytes. According to > the manpage for malloc the default MMAP_THRESHOLD is at 128kB. > > Alternately asprintf could be used instead of malloc+snprintf, but > asprintf is

Re: getpeercred() on the Hurd

2008-06-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:56:53 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Well, I guess he doesn't have a running Hurd system. > > Actually I guess we could easily add SO_PASSCRED to pflocal sockets, by > using auth_user_authenticate/auth_server_authenticate indeed. The problem is which credentials: remember

Re: getpeercred() on the Hurd

2008-06-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:41:48 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > At Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:20:10 +0200 (CEST), > Arthur de Jong wrote: > > > One question you should consider is: why do you need this information? > > [...] > > > > I agree with your point in genera

Re: getpeercred() on the Hurd

2008-06-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:20:10 +0200 (CEST), Arthur de Jong wrote: > > One question you should consider is: why do you need this information? > [...] > > I agree with your point in general and think there are better ways to > do access control. > > nss-ldapd is an NSS module that does lookups in a

Re: getpeercred() on the Hurd

2008-06-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:49:16 +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > Hello list (I'm not subscribed so please keep me in Cc). > > I'm the maintainer of nss-ldapd. I saw that the package was recently > built for GNU Hurd. I haven't tested the package on Hurd but there is > one (not very critical) thing t

Re: memory usage

2007-08-20 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:30:41 -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > > 1: I think it should be raised in gnumach itself, not just in the > > Debian > > version. > > > I agree. The value should also be dymanically changeable by the > user if possible (I am not familiar enough with the code in question

Hurd/L4 History

2007-08-02 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:30:20 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:17:49PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > > > Hurdng - the project of porting hurd translators to another > > microkernel beside mach such as L4. > > That is not fully correct. The original port to L4 was

Re: Please test DHCP on gnuab

2007-06-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:29:12 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > [1 ] > Hello! > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:29:47AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Michael Banck, le Wed 13 Jun 2007 14:27:22 +0200, a ?crit : > > > I finally uploaded dhcp-client packages to gnuab, please give them a > > > test.

Re: Bug#79358: is select still broken on hurd ?

2007-06-10 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:15:20 +0200, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neal H. Walfield, le Sat 09 Jun 2007 00:29:38 +0200, a écrit : > > The theory is that we don't trust the server to honor the timeout: it > > may be malicious and trick the client int

Re: Bug#79358: is select still broken on hurd ?

2007-06-08 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:30:49 +0800, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, on the Hurd, a timeout of 0 probably doesn't make sense (since > we at least need to give back cpu to the server). What I'd propose is > the attached patch (not tested), that rounds up the timeout value, and >

Re: mono

2006-11-26 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:34:14 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > As setting the stack size is optional (it is only done if > pthread_attr_setstacksize() is available in the first place), mono > shouldn't abort if it fails, either. That's right. > For more discussion see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_b

Bug#313560: /dev/{null,zero,full} should not be run as root

2005-06-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Package: Hurd /dev/{null,zero,full} should not be run as root: they don't need root access to operate correctly. Because they are translators and the node is owned by root, the file system starts them with root permission. Ideally, they should be run with no user ids but as an interim measure, t

Re: kde on hurd

2005-06-09 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:35:55 +0200, Oleksandr Shneyder wrote: > But unfortunately I have found new problem - I try to compile my own old > simple qt project to test how qt work. This is very simple project without > processes or threads. With no-threaded qt version all work just fine, but > with

Re: panic: kmem_suballoc

2005-06-07 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:18:48 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila wrote: > After an apt-get upgrade today, my Hurd didn't boot properly anymore, > giving this error message: > > panic: kmem_suballoc > > and rebooting afterwards. > > I was able to fix this by reducing the value of uppermem in menu.lst > (t

Re: sshd help: setresgid() isn't working

2005-06-01 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 26 May 2005 12:08:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I've fixed all the Hurd build problems in openssh 1:4.0p1-1, which I'll > be uploading to experimental shortly. However, I still can't get sshd to > work, and it's beginning to look like a bug in glibc's Hurd support. > > sshd's debug log l

Re: GNOME partly working

2005-05-19 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 17 May 2005 23:57:24 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > 3. There is a pretty severe issue with pthread_attr_setstacksize() > from libgthread resulting in nautilus to abort. I hacked around that > in glib for now, Neal might be able to look into that later on. Our current libpthread doesn't sup

Re: RfC: Hurd console by default

2005-03-09 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:41 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:06:22PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Michael Banck, le mer 09 mar 2005 17:58:05 +0100, a dit : > > > 3. Running the Hurd console in a tight endless loop results in mayhem if > > > the user introduces errors

FOSDEM: Hurd Developers' Mini-Symposium Roundup

2005-03-07 Thread Neal H. Walfield
wards Extensibility Neal H. Walfield - Interactions in a Multiserver Operating System: The Importance of a good RPC Framework Marcus Brinkmann - L4/Hurd driver model Peter 'p2' De Schrijver - GRUB 2 Marco Gerards - Debian GNU/Hurd Michael Banck Thanks, Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Problems building K8 / L1 CDs

2004-12-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> I am getting errors with the trial build of the K8 set which was built > using the latest archives. > > These messages were copied by hand. > > When booting. > > hd0: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveRady SeekCompleteError } > hd0: dma_intr: error 0x84 { BadCRC DriveStatusError } > LBAsect=4

Re: FTBFS: python

2003-11-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
I just remember there being issues about constructors not being called if -lpthread was not on the link line. I think perl did this but I forget.

Re: FTBFS: python

2003-11-02 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:53:31 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila wrote: > > And this is what happens when compiling python2.3: > > gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing > -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -DWITH_BLT=1 -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. > -I/build/buildd/pyth

Re: acl: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

2003-10-10 Thread Neal H. Walfield
__USE_LARGEFILE64 and __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED are *not* user macros. You want to use _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and _XOPEN_EXTENDED respectively. However, these must be defined before any includes are done and (at least the former) should be done across all files. I suggest that they be added to the CFLAGS (

Re: why was um-pppd removed?

2003-06-29 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> but modern *BSDs use a kernel-space "Linux approach". are you sure > um-pppd is still maintained? Last update was on June 19, 2003 [1]. I attempted to submit my patches to Brian several times, however, I never got any type of response. [1] http://www.awfulhak.org/~brian/

Re: How to debug translators?

2003-05-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > should be enough, not? Again, I only see 'translator died'. > > How can I gather further info? Try setting an active translator (i.e. `settrans -a') so that all output goes to your terminal instead of /dev/null. > Second: I should probably recompile th

Re: filesystem hosed once more...

2003-05-04 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> > > I have typescripts of dumpe2fs and e2fsck available, if anyone would > > > like to examine them, please let me know. > > > > Sure. > > After the failure to send email to you, I've uploaded the logs to > http://home.arcor.de/j.rohr/hurd-logs/hurd-fs-crash-logs.tar.bz2 I have emailed the adm

Re: filesystem hosed once more...

2003-05-03 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> I have typescripts of dumpe2fs and e2fsck available, if anyone would > like to examine them, please let me know. Sure.

Re: Translated Hurd-Install-Guide

2003-03-02 Thread Neal H. Walfield
I have added what appears to be [1] the latest version of your translation to [2]. In the future please respect my mail Mail-Copies-To header when replying to me. [1] http://std-err.de/hurd-install-guide/german [2] http://walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/german.

Re: Translated Hurd-Install-Guide

2003-02-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> i have translate the Hurd-Installation-Guide from Neal H. Walfield > to german so this post is writing in german, sorry :) Thanks, but if you want it to be integrated it, you will need to translate the texinfo file.

Re: [BUG] ext2 fs corruption

2003-02-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Can you please send the output of `tune2fs /dev/partition' where This should be `tune2fs -l /dev/partition'

Re: [BUG] ext2 fs corruption

2003-02-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Can you please send the output of `tune2fs /dev/partition' where partition is the partition on which your GNU/Hurd installation resides.

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread Neal H. Walfield
>1) no ssh >2) ssh with no security > >you have advocated (2), right? It is that statement which I am >arguing against. > > No, I have advocated against including a unsecure random translator. > You are forgetting the third alternative, making ssh use its own > random pool. Assu

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-19 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> If our only alternatives are > > 1) no ssh > 2) ssh with no security Wrong, which just proves that you have not read this thread: we are arguing about entropy; ssh is only a side argument.

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-18 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> > Why do I feel like repeating this old mantra: Bad security is worse > > than no security. > > Sez you. Many disagree. Especially for a system in development, with > already has bad security. I think that we can all accept that there are currently a variety of security holes in the Hurd. Th

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

2002-12-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> > Your argument is absurd. Network security considerations are different > > than local system security considerations. We have control over who can > > have an account on our systems. We don't necessarily have control over > > who has access to our IP ports. > > These are all excellent reaso

Re: ssh, /dev/urandom (was: Re: K1 images - final report?)

2002-12-16 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> I support the addition of ssh, *even* with a weak random. ssh is not being excluded; it is in the archive, if you want it, you just have to set it up yourself. By helping the user with this horrible kludge--essentially installing pregenerated host keys--we are creating a false sense of security

Re: Induced crashes

2002-12-16 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Disk hardware guarantees that a sector write can always be completed > even if the power goes out partway through. That means that writing a > single sector *is* always atomic. The size of a single sector does not necessarily equal the size of of a disk block.

Re: Induced crashes

2002-12-16 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> ext2fs should be quite robust: Even pulling the plug at any time should not > corrupt the filesystem beyond what e2fsck can repair. Let us assume that ext2fs writes a block of metadata to disk. In the kernel, in the middle of the DMA operation, the kernel panics. There is no guarantee that e2f

Re: Induced crashes

2002-12-16 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> OK folk, what is causing the problem? This is not an ext2fs bug; something is causing a Mach panic. The reason that your file system has been corrupted is that the data was not synch'ed to disk (when Mach panics, it takes the whole system down). The correct solution is to fix Mach. Determinin

Re: Perl 5.8 and pthreads?

2002-12-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Thanks. Is this long-term the right solution? If yes, I'll prepare the > patch to hint/gnu.sh and send it upstream. I do not know what the problem is but it would seem to be something to do with symbol resolution. I had hoped that Roland might have been able to comment on it during the last d

Re: Perl 5.8 and pthreads?

2002-12-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Remove `-lc' from the link line.

Re: setting date stops networking?

2002-12-11 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> At that point, I'm not sure how I can do a backtrace, because session is > disconnected. Then you should attach via the console. If you are losing network access then I doubt time is the problem; it is likely pfinet.

Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin

2002-11-09 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> 1) /sbin should be added to every users path on i386-gnu systems. The > concept of a binary that is completely unusable for regular users is > almost unheard of for us. (The only few that come to mind is init, > fdisk, and grub). Why would a normal user not want to run fdisk or grub? Think bo

Re: Some questions about the J2 CD.....

2002-11-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> You can get up as much as 2gb if I heard other reports correctly. I am > using 1.5gb today. The exact limit is not known. It might depend on where > libraries are loaded. > > BTW, the higher this value is the lower is the number and size of files you > can have read/write at the same time. E

Re: Hurd Newsbee: Cant Boot After Installation

2002-11-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html Old and out of date. > http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/hurd.html Ancient and out of date. > I just would like to know which guide and mainly download source is most > up-to-date and useable for me. Please follow the prescribed way. You can find refere

Re: Hurd Newsbee: Cant Boot After Installation

2002-11-04 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> root(hd0,0) ; /dev/hda1 in Linux-speak, /dev/hd0s1 in HURD-Speak > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=/dev/hd0s0 > module /boot/serverboot.gz > boot > > This is all detailed in the cookbook file (which seems out of date) - > mix those instructions with instructions given by the > ./native-install.sh

Hurd Orientation

2002-11-03 Thread Neal H . Walfield
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Re: kernel / system header files

2002-10-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
apt-get build-dep hurd. You should read the documentation.

Re: Talks at the University of Waterloo

2002-10-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
My slides are now online[1]. [1] http://web.walfield.org/papers/better-best-effort-20021026/

Hurd Orientation

2002-10-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
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libpthread

2002-09-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
I am extremely pleased to announce the first release of RMGPT, the "Rubbish, I asked for mine with Minced Garlic, Please Take this back" release [1]. RMGPT is (or rather, aspires to one day be) a complete, portable implementation of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 threads as known as POSIX threads. A projec

Hurd Orientation

2002-09-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Hurd 0.3 is not released

2002-08-24 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Now that the Hurd 0.3 is out It is not. No release has been made.

Hurd Orientation

2002-08-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: UML and the Hurd

2002-07-22 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:32:15PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > > That's a more interesting project IMO (makeing debugging and the like > > much easier presumably). However, If you are interested in a HURD on > > top of UN*X, I'd like to suggest a different approach: The HURD will > > (hopefu

Hurd Orientation

2002-07-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static

2002-06-15 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> When I try to boot using the module statements from the installation > instructions (I did copy and paste), it always hangs up. The message > where it hangs up is: > "start /hurd/ext2fs.static:" > right after loading the modules. > > This is pasted from my menu.lst: > > --- snip --- > title

Hurd Orientation

2002-06-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Hurd Orientation

2002-05-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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ftp/http proxy

2002-04-24 Thread Neal H Walfield
> It should be noted that I don't have alpha.gnu.org in my > sources list only ftp.debian.org. The reason for this is because I need to > use a http proxy to get out to the net and alpha.gnu.org appears to only > support ftp. Most http proxies also support ftp requests. apt respects both ftp_prox

Re: Boot Messages

2002-04-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
> What am I doing wrong here? I do not know, however, I think it might have something to do with not passing --prefix= to configure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

< 4kb disk blocks

2002-04-08 Thread Neal H Walfield
> (Well, it kept me busy for about > 5 days: the machine is low on cpu, low on memory and low on diskspace. > And it occasionally crashes. O well.) You will certainly see large speedups in I/O if you use 4kb pages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Hurd Orientation

2002-04-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: A simple desktop

2002-04-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I´d like to know how to install a X-windows on Hurd, but I don´t know > how do use dpkg and don´t known which CD has the X-windows. I > downloaded the CD´s H2 cds 1 and 2. Do not use dpkg directly; use apt-get. This, however, you have have to install by hand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: dselect/apt & fsck

2002-04-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
> This is what showed > on the screen directly attached to the Hurd machine: > > memory_object_data_request(0x0, 0x0, 0x43000, 0x1000, 0x3) failed, > 268435459 When the kernel requests data from a manager and the manager dies before it can send a response, the kernel emits this message. > ... An

Re: system crash when much disk io

2002-04-01 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I think that this patch will solve your problem: I have committed this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system crash when much disk io

2002-03-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > Running dselect or apt-get very often gets my hurd box on it's knees. > > When it's 'Reading Package Lists...' , the system hangs, after giving: > > > > ext2fs.static: ../../ext2fs/pager.c:396: file_pager_write_page: > > Assertion `block' failed. Can you send us the output of `tune2fs -l /dev/

Re: New oskit-mach debugging log - failed assertion 'port->ip_srights > 0'

2002-03-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> The typos are "-T typed" and ${root} These are not typos. There is something wrong with the way oskit-mach is parsing the arguments.

Re: New oskit-mach debugging log - failed assertion 'port->ip_srights > 0'

2002-03-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I don't know where you got the idea you should use `-T typed'. > -T device is what you need for the store name you are using. We use -T typed so that root can be set using either the device type, e.g. device:hd0s2 or the part type, e.g. part:2:device:hd0.

Re: cp'ing passive translators

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > > Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing > > > is for the cp -R case. > > > > > > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and > > > set it on the copy. > > > > I am not clear what you mean here. > > Open the node with O_NOTRANS. > Fetch t

Hurd Orientation

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: cp'ing passive translators

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing > is for the cp -R case. > > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and > set it on the copy. I am not clear what you mean here.

Re: oskit-mach: gdb_break_stub() confusion

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > > cp should not copy passive translator settings. > > > > Why not? And what is the right way to copy them? > > Because cp is supposed to copy the data of the file; it should read > the data. > > For example, on Linux, if you do > mknod /dev/foo ... > cp /dev/foo /tmp/bar > > then /tmp/b

Re: oskit-mach: gdb_break_stub() confusion

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> cp should not copy passive translator settings. Why not? And what is the right way to copy them?

Re: oskit-mach: gdb_break_stub() confusion

2002-03-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > When you attach gdb the kernel, set a breakpoint at > > gdb_break_stub. Then start you kernel (pressing 'c'). Say you want > > to debug a function in the kernel where you don't have break point, > > start your compiled gdb-break program on the console. Now you should > > hit the gdb_break_stub

Re: Emacs21

2002-02-26 Thread Neal H Walfield
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:16:24PM +0100, Marco Parrone wrote: > > Hi all. > > Emacs21 for hurd-i386 is linked to xlibs, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, > > libXaw3d (and possibly others), but the package don't depend on them. > > I think it is a bug. The i386 (linux) package don't have this problem. >

Re: OSKit-Mach - It worked! Was(Re: oskit-mach possible bug)

2002-02-24 Thread Neal H Walfield
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:14:44PM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > > Hi, I followed your instructions and I got the thing to boot like it > > is supposed to! I had to make the asm("cli") modification, and in > > order to build "kernel-ide" and "kernel-ide+scsi" I edited the > > top level makefi

Re: about sysvinit

2002-02-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
> But the reason why they depend on sysvinit might be many, and I don't have > an overview of what the common reasons are. That I ported sysvinit at all > was a kludge for Debian GNU/Hurd by itself: The Hurd doesn't really > need it. In that case, the Debian Hurd package could perhaps provide sy

Re: hurd installation

2002-02-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I'm new to Hurd and I've just installed it. I used the scripts from > debian.org for installation. Those instructions are a bit old (and the procedure they describe is no longer supported). Can you please try the updated documentation found here [1]? [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd

Re: usage of reserved C++-keyword in cthreads.h

2002-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I didn't say it was difficult. It's easy. It's also silly. Why > should I worry all the time about such adaptation? > > How many languages do you want me to support? > > C++ is an *incompatible* extension of C. Extension yes, compatible, > no. Just a weeks ago, you were arguing on one of

Hurd Orientation

2002-02-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Welcome to the GNU Hurd === Welcome to the GNU Hurd. This email is automatically sent at the begining of each month to the help-hurd@gnu.org and debian-hurd@lists.debian.org mailing lists. This message is intended for a quick or

Re: H3 images

2002-01-30 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I intend to build the H3 images in the next few days. > > Are there any issues I should be aware of? > > This could well be the last set before ABI is implemented. We need a new emacs21 package. I just compiled it and it worked, however, I then managed to mess up the .deb file. I will redo t

Re: Not enough entropy in RNG

2002-01-28 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Has anyone run into a "Not enough entropy in RNG" error when running > ssh-keygen? First, you need /dev/{u,}random (see ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random-latest.tar.gz), then, you need entropy. The only way to give the random translator entropy is to `feed' it. There is no one

Re: Meta files for files without new interfaces

2002-01-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
> There was a discussion about some bugs in processing empty file names > but while reading it i didn't notice the special nature of these file > names. We were referring to the file "" inside of a symlink (i.e. what happens when we look up a symlink whose target is ""; `ln -s "" foo'). Here you a

Re: Modified Cry for Help

2002-01-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Setting this up isn't hard at all. It always is placed in | > /servers/socket/*2*|, because that's where glibc will look for it. > So be sure to install it this way: |settrans /servers/socket/*1* > /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 OPTIONS|, where |OPTIONS| specify your > IP addre

Re: too much RAM issue

2002-01-09 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Reducing memory from 768meg to 512meg did the trick tho. GNU Mach is known to work with up to 640 MB of ram and fail with more than 768 MB.

Hurd Orientation

2002-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: which image?

2001-12-20 Thread Neal H Walfield
> In the "GNU Hurd Hardware Compatibility Guide" > (http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/hurd/hurd-hardware.html) I > read "that the Debian GNU Mach package does NOT include the NCR > drivers.". > I have an NCR scsi controller, so where can I found the drivers? > (maybe one CD) 1) Use the upda

Re: Confessing my ignorance...

2001-12-20 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Has someone made a floppy image or three that can format a HURD partition > and start an ftp install, sort of like FreeBSD does? There is the cd image, but no floppies -- at least not yet.

Re: vi, X

2001-12-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Can i get a vi editor for GNU/HURD? Yes, use apt. > Can i configure X for Hurd? Yes, read the install guide and the FAQ.

Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?

2001-12-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Are you saying that this stuff is still missing from the kernel? I certainly > hope not ;-) Userlevel stack allocation is handled within NGPT already. > Looking at the threading interface posted on the Hurd website, I don't think > it will take much to port NGPT over to Hurd. Are you volun

Re: ppp

2001-12-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Has anyone got ppp running on hurd. I am a newbie and I tried > compiling the source which I got from the ftp site from the sid tree. > when I ran ./configure it said that hurd system was not supported. I > would appreciate some pointers to docs/sites where it is given in > detail. The one ppp

Re: problems for a HURD new-bee!

2001-12-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> When i try to mount the CD with > > settrans -a /cdrom /hurd/isofs /dev/hd2 > > i get the following errors: > > /hurd/isofs: Could not find valid superblock > settrans: /hurd/isofs : Translator died Did you actually make the /dev/hd2 device? > nano editor is not working well, it is getting load

Re: hurd translator

2001-12-07 Thread Neal H Walfield
> This is not something that can be done this way in Unix, so a program would > not expect it to work the way it is written above, so in the Unix world this > is not a useful feature to have. Try this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ (0)$ mkfifo foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ (0)$ while /bin/true; d

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