Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Alexey Neyman
I think the original author expressed the following concern: - without the GBDE, a failure to write meta-data for a file (say, 'atime' for /etc/passwd) will not result in an unusable system. Whether it was written or not does not matter much: either way, the links to actual file blocks remain i

Re: please help with: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer

2004-10-08 Thread Alexey Neyman
On Friday 08 October 2004 21:25, Sam wrote: > > Are there actually systems out there that don't have "all-zero" NULL pointers? > > > > You have officially shattered my previously held beliefs about the > > sacredness of memset :( > > If there are, I'd be interested to know of them. http://www.es

should pw(8) accept spaces/tabs in passwords?

2003-05-29 Thread Alexey Neyman
Hello, I was just asked why the passwd(1) utility allows to set up a password containing spaces and tabs, and the adduser(8) script does not: the password is stripped of anything past a space or a tab. E.g., "my password" turns into "my". It turned out that it's pw(8) utility that does such str

Re: should pw(8) accept spaces/tabs in passwords?

2003-05-29 Thread Alexey Neyman
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:25, Alexey Neyman wrote: > attached patch makes it behave consistently with passwd(1). Seems that attachments are stripped somewhere on the way; resend inline. Index: pw_user.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/

Re: are /etc/ld.so.conf and ld-elf.so.conf still used byldconfig(8) ?

2003-06-27 Thread Alexey Neyman
hi, there! On Friday 27 June 2003 17:59, Marco Molteni wrote: MM> On -current, according to the ldconfig man page: [ .. skipped .. ] MM> If I am correct, could somebody fix the man page? It is misleading. PR: conf/25527, resting there for more than 2 years... Regards, Alexey. -- A quoi ca sert

Re: telldir()/seekdir() confusion

2003-07-18 Thread Alexey Neyman
hi, there! On Wednesday 09 July 2003 00:30, Dan Nelson wrote: DN> > pos = telldir(dirp); DN> > ent = readdir(dirp); DN> > seekdir(dirp, pos); DN> > printf("First telldir:%d\nSecond telldir:%d\n", pos, telldir(dirp)); DN> I don't think there's any pstandard that says that telldir h