Re: Automatic updates (was Re: How long for -stable...)

2000-10-05 Thread jdp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does exactly what you say you want it to do. The sequence goes > > something like this: > > Awesome! Thanks; I knew I should have just asked you in the > first place. :) One caveat (ok, two caveats): it doesn't c

Re: anonymous memory map vs mmap on /dev/zero

2000-10-05 Thread jdp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, FengYue wrote: > > > It seems that mmap on /dev/zero is more portable. > > no really, It won't work at all correctly on linux, and on Tru64 it does > the totally wrong thing, but the (fd = -1, MAP_

Re: Automatic updates (was Re: How long for -stable...)

2000-10-05 Thread jdp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that we can do a lot with cvsupd. I've used cvsupd to grab > > binaries on an experimental basis and it seems to work great. I've > > Hmmm. Does cvsupd also move a target out of the way if it already > exist

Re: atomic operations

2000-10-03 Thread jdp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +typedef struct { volatile int a; } atomic_t; > + > +#define atomic_init(p, v)do { p->a = v; } while(0) > +#define atomic_destroy(p)do { ; } while(0) I don't see the need for the do ... while(0) construct he

Re: dlopen() & objc initializer...

2000-10-03 Thread jdp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ObjC shared object compiled in this way: > > gcc -shared -rdynamic -o Bundle BreakTest.o SetTestCase.o -lSenFoundation >-lSenTestingKit > > When I load this object with dlopen() the __objc_exec_class() initializer > of the