Hi Fabrizio,
Man is broken under the hurd. When one tries to view man pages as root, man
executes su with the -c option. This flag is not supported under the hurd's
su. This patch will fix it to work on the hurd:
--- /bin/manThu Feb 10 10:50:30 2000
+++ man Sun Mar 12 18:57:28 2000
@@ -2,
> I know, but at least for X 3.3 and earlier this seems to be the usual way.
> The X sources in general are platform and not feature based. Also, the Linux
> support is quite complex because it deals with libc5 and various glibc based
> systems, and I better not touch it at all. It should be strai
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:04:17PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> As a general rule, the same feature selections appropriate for Linux/glibc
> are probably the right choices for the Hurd. As always, using #ifdef __linux__
> or #ifdef __GNU__ is the worst way to choose these things, but if that's
> here are further patches for X. I grep'd for linux and checked if all
> places that also apply to the Hurd include __GNU__, too. There are some
> places I didn't understand, and I welcome any help with them. I would
> also appreciate it if someone could revise my changes. Here are my notes,
> an
Hi,
here are further patches for X. I grep'd for linux and checked if all places
that also apply to the Hurd include __GNU__, too. There are some places I
didn't understand, and I welcome any help with them. I would also appreciate
it if someone could revise my changes. Here are my notes, and att
Your message dated Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:56:15 -0500
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and subject line pfinet overhauled
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility
I've fixed the bug, and a Hurd all compiled with gcc-2.95.2 now runs fine.
It turns out there was no particularly interesting reason gcc-2.95.2
exposed this bug, it was just the luck of the optimizer. The bug was that
in the create_startup_proc case, where allocate_proc is called with
MACH_PORT_N
