On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:18:31PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > With my better understanding, I would say it this way: If I call
> > mach_host_self() 2^16 and a couple times, and then call
> > mach_port_deallocate on the port name returne
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With my better understanding, I would say it this way: If I call
> mach_host_self() 2^16 and a couple times, and then call
> mach_port_deallocate on the port name returned by these calls 2^16
> times, then the urefs will drop to zero and the port nam
Hi,
I think I found this confusing instruction to be unnecessary:
mach:/ipc/ipc_object.c (ipc_object_alloc.c), line 250:
- *namep = (mach_port_t)object;
kr = ipc_entry_alloc(space, namep, &entry);
(With "-", I mean that this line can be removed).
First, I find it confusing b
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:48:44AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > BTW, what about the count of user refs in the port name entry of the tasks
> > port name space? We don't set any policy here, so I suspect that here a
> > task will simply g
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, what about the count of user refs in the port name entry of the tasks
> port name space? We don't set any policy here, so I suspect that here a
> task will simply get a failure on overrunning the user references.
There are two ref counts to ke
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:57:57PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>
> Hm, this doesn't look like `What Is' but `Mach Internals Guide'. What about
> starting mach-internals-guide.texi (or something like this) in CVS gnumach?
Well, I am currently preparing some code examples with comments and heavily
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:52:13PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote this for inclusion in the What Is area of the web page. It is only
> a first draft, and not complete yet, but after the horrible confusion
> yesterday, it would be nice if someone could skim over it. Any comment
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:19:08PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Overflowing the ip_srights reference count in the port structure.
>
> Right. So since mach_host_self sets OVERFLOW, the result of maxing
> out the user refs is harmless. (
> At some point in the not too distant past I went over the shm interfaces in
> contemplation of a Hurd implementation. I don't really recall anything
> specific about it, but my vague recollection is that I concluded there was
> just one new interface or quirk of functionality that would be requ
> That has always been my plan. I just went for getting tmpfs working as
> fully as possible with semantics as close as possible to right and testing
> it, before considering touching the default pager code.
My current hacking is with the default pager and understanding Mach
internals. What are
> Please separate this into: typo fixes; substantial text additions; and
> miscellaneous rewordings. I will apply the first with cursory review, the
> second with appropriate review for correctness, and the third I will
> probably ignore.
Here is the second part:
2001-05-07 Neal H Walfield <[
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:15:35PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ognyan Kulev) writes:
>
> > cd /root
> > settrans /linux /dev/sda5
> > ln -s /linux/home/ogi/deb .
> > cd deb
> > cd .. (cwd = /root)
> > cd deb
> > ls .. (listing of /linux/home/ogi ???)
>
> The last command is h
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:00:55AM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:45:12PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > I disagree, if we set *USER to NULL on failure, we get the same effect.
> >
> > Ok.
>
> Here are the necessary changes, enjoy.
As you have already approved th
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