defining _POSIX_SYNCHRONOUS_IO although msync not available?

2000-09-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, is it posixly correct to define _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO although we don't support msync? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAI

apt-get really works

2000-09-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, > > Plus, the architecture issue... > > I got my changes into dpkg CVS, and apt archtable says it is mirrored from > dpkg, so we have a good chance :) You are correct, that did not work, however, my latest hack works wonderfully... After configure runs, change the ARCHITECTURE= line in incl

Re: apt-get works with a hack (msync)

2000-09-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:11:21PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > I promise that your version of apt is broken. For example, it > > doesn't have the right architecture set (it will try to download > > i386 packages). See http://bugs.debian.org/39227. Brent was > > reporting some other > > stuf

Re: apt-get works with a hack (msync)

2000-09-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, > I experienced socket troubles with certain socket options were not > supported under the Hurd. I know Roland made some updates for this, > so perhaps these problems are just a bad memory now... I have done several `apt-get update's over both http and ftp. I also did an apt-get source.

RE: apt-get works with a hack (msync)

2000-09-12 Thread Brent Fulgham
> I promise that your version of apt is broken. For example, it > doesn't have the right architecture set (it will try to download > i386 packages). See http://bugs.debian.org/39227. Brent was > reporting some other > stuff I forgot > about, and we have to check if it can compile the GUI. > I

Re: apt-get works with a hack (msync)

2000-09-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:22:27AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > I have been hacking at apt-get and have discovered that all that is required > to get it working under the hurd is one of two things: > > 1) The attached two line hack which gets rid of the msync support > which the hurd clai

apt-get works with a hack (msync)

2000-09-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Marcus et al, I have been hacking at apt-get and have discovered that all that is required to get it working under the hurd is one of two things: 1) The attached two line hack which gets rid of the msync support which the hurd claims to have but appears not to (at least not fully).

msync and MS_*

2000-09-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, According to my reading of POSIX.4, if _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES and _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO are defined (as they are on the hurd), then msync is available. On the hurd, both are defined, and a prototype for msync is available in sys/mman.h as expected. However, neither this file nor bits/mman.h d