Re: cannot boot subhurd

Hi, On 09-12-31 上午11:04, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: >> But it always worked before. I can also mount /dev/hd1 to my file >> system. 'settrans -a subhurd /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd1' works on my >> system. > > Have you put a filesystem on /dev/hd1 without partitioning it? That's > certainly unusual.

Re: [bug #28446] No checks are made for unteminated strings in RPC messages

Hi, On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:12:21AM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:42:21PM +, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > > Strings in RPCs, such as the filename argument to a dir_lookup, are > > not checked if they are terminated by '\0'. This could lead to the > >

Re: [bug #28446] No checks are made for unteminated strings in RPC messages

olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 31 Dec 2009 04:12:21 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:42:21PM +, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > > Strings in RPCs, such as the filename argument to a dir_lookup, are > > not checked if they are terminated by '\0'. This could lead to the > > server

Re: cannot boot subhurd

Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > On 09-12-29 ??5:42, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:45:50PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > >> #boot servers.boot /dev/hd1 > > > > Err... /dev/hd1? That's almost certainly wrong. You want to boot > > from

xz (was: Re: review of modifications of eth-multiplexer)

Hi, On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 03:19:26PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 06:12:14PM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > Try xz compression instead of bz2 -- that can make quite a > > difference :-) > > Wow! :-) Thank you! I've heard about the LZMA algorithm, but it's

Re: FOSDEM 2010

Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01:41AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > FOSDEM 2010 is slowly approaching. > > A few Hurd types have shown interest in meeting there, so I created > > for coordination. Beware tha

Re: [bug #28446] No checks are made for unteminated strings in RPC messages

Hi, On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:42:21PM +, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > Strings in RPCs, such as the filename argument to a dir_lookup, are > not checked if they are terminated by '\0'. This could lead to the > server segfaulting if it tries to read the string. > > Making MIG check that stri

Re: SMP, barriers, etc.

On 09-12-28 下午8:32, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> So when a write memory barrier instruction is executed, the processor >> has to remember the order of writes, so the read memory barrier >> instruction executed on another processor can somehow get the >> information? > > In principle, yes. The actual