Bug#63373: suspicious code in isofs

2000-05-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Package: hurd Version: N/A Hi, I hope I don't make fuss about nothing, in case I don't understand the code. Anyway, it looks strange. In isofs/lookup.c (diskfs_get_directs), there is the first for-loop, which seems to check if there are enough entries available. I want to draw your attention t

Re: International support on Hurd

2000-05-01 Thread Niels Möller
=?Windows-1252?Q?Jes=FAs_Torres?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that the Unicode support eradicate the problems with the characters > set and do the exchange of information between users more easy. I just want to point out that naive unicode support is dangerous. This is because there ar

Re: patch to fix io-seek on readonly stores

2000-05-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:54:33PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Anyway, here is a patch. > > > > Well, I'm not (yet) a hurd hacker[1], but this patch strikes me as > > fun

Re: EXECSERVERS disabled, but why?

2000-05-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > why is the code that allows for user EXECSERVERS commented out? > > You got me. It might just have been buggy, or there might have been a > security concern that we weren't ready to think about hard enough. There > might be some old mailing list a

Re: readonly semantics

2000-05-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. When are you supposed to call diskfs_check_readonly, and when are you > supposed to check the value of diskfs_readonly directly? You are always supposed to use diskfs_check_readonly. You should do it before you actually change the disk, but avoi