Re: C ????

2002-05-30 Thread Matthias Buelow
echo dev writes: >I am coding a scheduler. It is going to paste a msg to the screen after a >certain time. How might i run this in the background? I tried just casting >it into the background with the name& but it did'nt work. I need it to asked >the questions and then put it self into the bac

Re: any file --> symbol in .o file

2002-05-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
E.B. Dreger writes: >I'm about to whip up a utility that will take any arbitrary >file and store the contents in a .o file (complete with symbol >names so one can actually link, of course). Why don't you just write a script (sed, awk, perl, whatever) to write the C source for you, from a plainte

Re: What hardware do you use ?

2002-05-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Josef Grosch writes: >This question came up at last night BAFUG meeting. What hardware do people >use and/or recommend? Specifically, if you were going to build a machine, >using commonly available parts and just to run a generic kernel, what >ethernet, video, motherboards, etc, would you use and

Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2

2002-04-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this: It may be useful but it is nonstandard. >In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in this >respect, and *BSD is correct. How do you define "correctness"? Solaris ls(1) non

Re: SYS_NMLN strange value

2002-03-29 Thread Matthias Buelow
Sansonetti Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi hackers, > >Just a little question about utsname.h (on a 4.4-release), is it normal >to see a value of 32 for SYS_NMLN instead of 256 (like other >implementations such as OpenBSD 3.0) ? I've just sent in a PR regarding this; Solaris 8 has it at

Re: ports/36307: nmh port cuts off last part of sender domain

2002-03-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
I wrote: > printf("sysname: %s\nnodename: %s\nrelease: %s\nmachine: %s\n", > u.sysname, u.nodename, u.release, u.version, u.machine); Actually here's an obvious bug in the quick test program, I just want to mention it, it doesn't effect anything in the rest of the mail, thoug

Re: ports/36307: nmh port cuts off last part of sender domain

2002-03-27 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (freebsd-hackers, please see comment about sys/utsname.h / SYS_NMLN below; you might ignore the nmh bug correspondence above.) >OK...it looks like there's this zotnet/mts/mts.c file with a LocalName() >function that calls various functions (uname(),

Re: How to prevent a system call from restart?

1999-10-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Zhihui Zhang wrote: >I modify the day time client program from the Stevens' book and run it on >both a Sun workstation and a FreeBSD machine. In the program, I use >signal() and alarm() to set a 5 seconds timeout. The program works as >expected on Sun (after I comment out the daytime line in th

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1999-10-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bcc: Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Type 'man 3 fetch', scroll down to the BUGS section, and see the >light. Next, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to >contact :) (fetch