Re: RFV: Help authoring KC Debian Hurd

2000-10-10 Thread Zack Brown
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:11:14AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote: > Hi folks, > > Now that I've started following bug-hurd and help-hurd, instead of just > debian-hurd, it's actually become a big task for me to do KC Debian Hurd > each week (which is all to the good ;-). I'd like to try to distribute t

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2000-10-10 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
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Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-10 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:27:11 -0400 (EDT) > So the more precise question is: should translators quit when the last > reference to them is gone? It is up to the translator to decide when it is safe and desireable to shut down when there

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2000-10-10 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
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Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-10 Thread Roland McGrath
> A slightly different question: if a stat() call is issued by a program > on, for example, a /dev entry, an open() is issued to the translator to > get a port, then the stat() magic and then a close() to free the port. > What does the stat() actually do, and does it do an open() with O_NORW? > Or

Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-10 Thread Roland McGrath
> So the more precise question is: should translators quit when the last > reference to them is gone? It is up to the translator to decide when it is safe and desireable to shut down when there are no users. The general plan is to do this after a timeout, but the implementations are not entirely

Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-10 Thread Erik Verbruggen
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 07:48:15AM +0530, Pankaj Kaushal wrote: > Erik Verbruggen wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > A short question: when do translators actually quit? > well a translator with -c will stay across reboots > and -a will not stand reboots > > a -a translator will be started with dev

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Re: out-of-line-data clarification

2000-10-10 Thread Roland McGrath
> Does out-of-line data refer to the passing of a pointer to some data that is > not in the RPC call? Yes. I think from something you said earlier that you have some of the old CMU Mach manuals. One of those explains the concept in detail. > Sorry, but I am probably going to be bombarding you

Re: hurd_types.defs help

2000-10-10 Thread Roland McGrath
> I am reading the server writers guide and I was looking through the > hurd_types.defs file and I noticed declarations for INTRAN, OUTTRAN, and > DESTRUCTOR for a number of subsystems. The syntax for these looks different > than how they show it in the Mach guide. Are these just macros? Say for >

out-of-line-data clarification

2000-10-10 Thread Daniel E . Baumann
Does out-of-line data refer to the passing of a pointer to some data that is not in the RPC call? Sorry, but I am probably going to be bombarding you guys with tons of questions. Dan Daniel E. Baumann E-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: hurd_types.defs help

2000-10-10 Thread Daniel E . Baumann
> Also where would I be able to find out what all the types, constants and > structures are? Like if I wanted to know what mach_port_copy_send_t is. Well I think I have found the type/structure definitions in the appendices of the kernel interface document. Dan -

hurd_types.defs help

2000-10-10 Thread Daniel E . Baumann
I am reading the server writers guide and I was looking through the hurd_types.defs file and I noticed declarations for INTRAN, OUTTRAN, and DESTRUCTOR for a number of subsystems. The syntax for these looks different than how they show it in the Mach guide. Are these just macros? Say for instance: