Re: heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
> --- "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regardless, the next version of POSIX specifies HOST_NAME_MAX. We > > should probably be using HOST_NAME_MAX instead of MAXHOSTNAMELEN > > in the Heimdal sources, or at least do something such as Note that no system is required to defin

heimdal on GNU HURD

2001-09-28 Thread James Morrison
I'm posting this message from a heimdal developer to bug-hurd for discussion on the topic of HOST_NAME_MAX. I don't have a draft of POSIX so I can't verify this. However, your 1st note is something I don't agree with. For example MAXPATHLEN is defined on many systems, but is not the best w

Re: nbd-server

2001-09-28 Thread Roland McGrath
> OK, but what I actually meant to ask was whether I need to apply some > patches to nbd-client or nbd-server to make it work with The Hurd. I can't speak to the build issues, though you should get some feedback here. nbd-client is not used at all on the Hurd; the code I wrote does the entirety

Re: nbd-server

2001-09-28 Thread wouter
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Roland McGrath wrote: > The code is in the Hurd development CVS repository (in libstore/nbd.c). > See http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd/ for how to access that. OK, but what I actually meant to ask was whether I need to apply some patches to nbd-client or nbd-server to m

Re: nbd-server

2001-09-28 Thread Roland McGrath
The code is in the Hurd development CVS repository (in libstore/nbd.c). See http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd/ for how to access that. But I wouldn't recommend that you try this code unless you are already comfortable with compiling the Hurd and have (successful) experience with running your

can't boot - sid() fault?

2001-09-28 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hi linux/dev/drivers/block/genhd.c::device_setup() is called at boot time. All is going fine until sti() is called - it never returns, boot process freezes. sti() is some asm magic, i couldn't figure out what it is doing. After pressing enter, eip points to dequeue_head() The kernel is compil

Re: Kernel Divide error trap

2001-09-28 Thread Niklas Hoglund
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:43:31PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > Well that's only one side of the truth. AMD had in those K6 series an > very fast loop optimation. It was so fast, that Windows couldn't boot > correctly, because they did also counting down a counter. The result was > used as a divi

Re: mach.info 0.2 available (was: Re: help needed with mach.texi)

2001-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, http://people.debian.org/~brinkmd/mach/mach-0.3.tar.gz is available (~78kb). The mach.tex is now about 300kb large, and the mach.pdf file has oer 140 pages. * Inter Process Communication:: Step 2 is done. New! * Virtual Memory Interface::Step 2 is done. New! * External Memory Managem

Re: nbd-server

2001-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Roland McGrath wrote: > I took a quick look at nbd and it's so simple that I just implemented the > client side for the Hurd. That is, I've added an "nbd" store type to libstore. > So to use it do e.g.: > > settrans /dev/nb0 /hurd/storeio -Tnbd hostname:1234 > > to c

Re: mach_port_t vs task_t (really ipc_space_t) in Mach header files

2001-09-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are probably a few weird hacks that rely on true port polymorphism. > But most of the uses can be described as interface subtyping (e.g. file_t > and socket_t are subtypes of io_t). The auth server, for example, hands ports around, and they are