Re: [PATCH 3/4] pci-arbiter: Fix a -Wstringop-truncation warning

2019-11-03 Thread James Clarke
;%04x", device->domain); >> + snprintf (entry_name, NAME_SIZE - 1, "%04x", device->domain); > > Perhaps replace the whole memset with just setting > entry_name[NAME_SIZE-1] = 0 > ? and ditto below. snprintf guarantees NUL termination, so this now over-truncates. James

Re: mapped-time interface

2019-07-19 Thread James Clarke
einlibc/maptime.[ch]; it's exposed through /dev/time and/or the "time" mach device. James > > 1: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/Host-Time.html > -- > Andrew Eggenberger

Re: Error with gnumach compilation

2019-02-15 Thread James Clarke
On 15 Feb 2019, at 13:33, Almudena Garcia wrote: > El vie., 15 feb. 2019 a las 14:28, James Clarke () > escribió: >> On 15 Feb 2019, at 13:21, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > >> > Almudena Garcia, le ven. 15 févr. 2019 14:13:17 +0100, a ecrit: >> >> This

Re: Error with gnumach compilation

2019-02-15 Thread James Clarke
a few minutes for me. You've had more than enough information from us to pinpoint the problem; this mailing list is really not for simple programming questions like this. James [1] https://github.com/AlmuHS/GNUMach_SMP/commit/371df36e565f4408737948ccc3d25acf2e1ccb57

Re: Enable SMP support

2018-06-08 Thread James Clarke
[ $mach_ncpus -gt 1 ]; then] > AC_DEFINE([MULTIPROCESSOR], [1], [set things up for a multiprocessor]) > [fi] So enabling it is just a case of tweaking that constant or making it a configurable option. James

Re: Samuel: Do you have permission to _enable_ the gccgo patches again?

2018-03-26 Thread James Clarke
r you (or him), see #894080. > > Next step is to send them to golang-dev for upstream adoption. gcc-patches > seems > to be a null sink. Sending patches there gives no reply whatsoever: Recent > examples gdb and gccgo. The best place for them is https://go-review.googlesource.com against go-frontend. James

Re: Glibc port: commit clenup

2018-02-17 Thread James Clarke
agesize >> >> I have completely changed the fix there, and commited upstream. > > Maybe I can try to help out here after being AFK for a month. Where is > upstream? Noting visible at > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/glibc.git/ > except your commit?? That's

Re: [PATCH] LwIP translator

2017-12-18 Thread James Clarke
On 18 Dec 2017, at 17:09, Samuel Thibault wrote: > James Clarke, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 17:06:28 +, wrote: >> On 18 Dec 2017, at 16:28, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Joan Lledó, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 17:10:42 +0100, wrote: >>>> 2017-12-18 14:46 GMT+01:00 Samuel Th

Re: [PATCH] LwIP translator

2017-12-18 Thread James Clarke
ive which last saw an upload in 2012, so might be worth unifying them if possible (it seems to be a fork from a while ago[1], probably before IPv6 was added upstream). Regards, James [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/view-os/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/lwipv6/

Re: [PATCH] eth-multiplxer: Implement ds_device_close()

2017-09-20 Thread James Clarke
; +CFLAGS += -I$(top_srcdir)/libbpf -ggdb -O0 I don't think you meant to include this hunk? :) James

Re: [PATCH] LwIP translator

2017-08-24 Thread James Clarke
ypt. > HAVE_LIBGCRYPT = @HAVE_LIBGCRYPT@ > > +# Whether we found libgcrypt. Copy-paste error :) James

Re: gnumach 1.7 issue

2016-06-04 Thread James Clarke
> On 4 Jun 2016, at 15:04, James Clarke wrote: > >> On 3 Jun 2016, at 19:36, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> Samuel Thibault, on Fri 03 Jun 2016 20:35:13 +0200, wrote: >>> Adam Richards, on Fri 03 Jun 2016 19:30:40 +0100, wrote: >>>> On rebooting and

Re: gnumach 1.7 issue

2016-06-04 Thread James Clarke
tions with a red-black tree I shall try building a kernel with 1db202e reverted. James [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?id=8d63d9c0d3b84e8496248093ce333c959fe985c9 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: Coppyright assignment (was: RFC: Lightweight synchronization mechanism for gnumach)

2016-03-03 Thread James Clarke
're to contribute >> more to GNU/Hurd, it'd be useful that you already assign copyright for >> GNUMACH, HURD, GLIBC. > > You forgot MIG. Unless it’s changed since I assigned copyright last year, MIG is an individual project and you can’t assign copyright for it. Ja

[PATCH v2] Fixed leaks in _netfs_translator_callback2_fn

2016-02-07 Thread James Clarke
* libnetfs/trans-callback.c (_netfs_translator_callback2_fn): Fixed leaking iouser and peropen structs on error. --- libnetfs/trans-callback.c | 10 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libnetfs/trans-callback.c b/libnetfs/trans-callback.c index 3f1aee6..ed21aa2

Re: [PATCH] Fixed leaks in _netfs_translator_callback2_fn

2016-02-07 Thread James Clarke
po = netfs_make_peropen (node, flags, cookie2); > if (! po) > -return errno; > +{ > + err = errno; > + iohelp_free_iouser (user); > + return err; > +} or can we assume the free functions don’t set errno? James signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

[PATCH] Fixed leaks in _netfs_translator_callback2_fn

2016-02-07 Thread James Clarke
* libnetfs/trans-callback.c (_netfs_translator_callback2_fn): Fixed leaking iouser and peropen structs on error. --- libnetfs/trans-callback.c | 6 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libnetfs/trans-callback.c b/libnetfs/trans-callback.c index 3f1aee6..7816bd1 10064

Re: [PATCH] Check for a return value in netfs_make_peropen before using it in netfs_make_protid.

2016-02-07 Thread James Clarke
On 7 Feb 2016, at 14:51, Flavio Cruz wrote: > - cred = netfs_make_protid (netfs_make_peropen (node, flags, cookie2), > - user); > + po = netfs_make_peropen (node, flags, cookie2); > + if (! po) > +return errno; You need to free user. James

Re: PATCH: Hurd FTBFS with perl 5.22

2016-01-04 Thread James Clarke
die "Usage: $0 HZ\n"; > } > > @val = @{$canned_values{$hz}}; > - if (!defined(@val)) { > + if (!@val) { > @val = compute_values($hz); > } > output($hz, @val); > } > exit 0; James [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/r

[PATCH] sulogin: Use fallback method on the Hurd for detecting consoles

2015-10-09 Thread James Clarke
Signed-off-by: James Clarke --- login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c | 8 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c b/login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c index 39d24d2..1b05b38 100644 --- a/login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c +++ b/login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c

[PATCH 0/1] Add missing null checks in libshouldbeinlibc

2015-09-30 Thread James Clarke
This stops /bin/login segfaulting when giving it a bad UID. However, the fact that the UID does not exist is still leaked, since libshouldbeinlibc/idvec-verify.c:verify_id falls back on asking for the root password, and indicates this by changing the prompt to "Password for root". James

[PATCH 1/1] Add missing null checks in libshouldbeinlibc

2015-09-30 Thread James Clarke
The getpwnam_r and similar functions only return non-zero on error, but not finding the given name/UID/GID does not count as an error. When they return 0, the value of the result (*result when looking at the arguments in the man pages) still needs to be checked for null. * libshouldbeinlibc/idvec-

Re: Hurd Login Utility

2015-09-30 Thread James Clarke
This seems to be caused by a segfault, so I imagine this is not intended! Tracking down the cause... James On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, James Clarke wrote: Whilst looking through the code in utils/login.c, I noticed a security issue. Even if --paranoid is set, if you give it a UID that doesn’t

Hurd Login Utility

2015-09-29 Thread James Clarke
prompt for a username, and then exec login, which seems unnecessary). Thoughts? James

Re: (Newbie question) Failed building hurd on Debian GNU Hurd

2015-09-24 Thread James Clarke
That’s an issue with the current Hurd repo on Savannah. You need this patch http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/teythoon/packaging/hurd.git/blob/HEAD:/debian/patches/proc-task-notify-0005-proc-fix-build.patch, from what I gather (at least it fixes it for me). James > On 24 Sep 2015, at 13

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ANSI.SYS SCP/RCP escape codes

2015-09-12 Thread James Clarke
CP/RCP, because ANSI.SYS called them Save/Restore Cursor Position, and everywhere seems to refer to them by that acronym (they're even listed on Wikipedia in the table of codes, despite not being in ECMA-48, nor being implemented by the VT100). James > On 12 Sep 2015, at 10:15, Samuel Thib

[PATCH] Add support for ANSI.SYS SCP/RCP escape codes

2015-09-11 Thread James Clarke
This adds support for CSI s and u, which are equivalent to ESC 7 and 8, saving/restoring the cursor position. * console/display.c (handle_esc_bracket): Added support for CSI s and u. --- console/display.c | 12 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/console/display.c b/consol

[PATCH] Install port-deref-deferred.h header for ports.h

2015-09-10 Thread James Clarke
* libports/Makefile (installhdrs): Add port-deref-deferred.h for ports.h --- libports/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libports/Makefile b/libports/Makefile index b8b82ee..af881f8 100644 --- a/libports/Makefile +++ b/libports/Makefile @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ S

Re: [RFC] Fix printk not handling ANSI escape codes

2015-08-29 Thread James Clarke
Yes, that was a mistake, it should call kd_putc_esc. James > On 29 Aug 2015, at 11:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > James Clarke, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 11:53:57 +0100, a écrit : >> I never gave that as an option? > > ? I understand even less. AIUI, before kd_start had esc

Re: [RFC] Fix printk not handling ANSI escape codes

2015-08-29 Thread James Clarke
I never gave that as an option? James > On 29 Aug 2015, at 11:44, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > James Clarke, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 11:42:38 +0100, a écrit : >> Yes, it should be; since I didn't catch that I'd guess nothing in Mach/Hurd >> is actually using escap

Re: [RFC] Fix printk not handling ANSI escape codes

2015-08-29 Thread James Clarke
you think that was the right decision? James > On 29 Aug 2015, at 11:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > James Clarke, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 11:15:29 +0100, a écrit : >> @@ -1069,33 +1068,12 @@ kdstart(struct tty *tp) >>break; >>if ((tp->t_outq.c_cc

[RFC] Fix printk not handling ANSI escape codes

2015-08-29 Thread James Clarke
* i386/i386at/kd.c (kdstart): Moved escape sequence handling to new kd_putc_esc function. (kd_putc_esc): New function with logic from kdstart. (kdcnputc): Call kd_putc_esc rather than kd_putc to allow for ANSI escape codes. * i386/i386at/kd.h (kd_putc_esc): New function. --- i386/i386at/kd.c | 63

[PATCH] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-08-27 Thread James Clarke
On some systems, ext2fs.static would regularly hang at startup, as a race condition meant it would process paging requests while remounting. To fix this, libpager has been altered to allow inhibiting and resuming its worker threads, and ext2fs uses this to inhibit paging while remounting. * consol

Re: [PATCH v3] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-08-15 Thread James Clarke
Not sure how I missed that; will grep for any others. James > On 14 Aug 2015, at 13:16, Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> > wrote: > > Quoting James Clarke (2015-07-23 19:33:42) >> diff --git a/libdiskfs/disk-pager.c b/libdiskfs/disk-pager.c >>

[PATCH v3] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-07-23 Thread James Clarke
On some systems, ext2fs.static would regularly hang at startup, as a race condition meant it would process paging requests while remounting. To fix this, libpager has been altered to allow inhibiting and resuming its worker threads, and ext2fs uses this to inhibit paging while remounting. * consol

Re: [PATCH] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-07-22 Thread James Clarke
Perhaps; I was following what diskfs_remount does when inhibiting RPCs, which stay inhibited on error. James > On 23 Jul 2015, at 00:51, Diego Nieto Cid wrote: > > Hi > > This is me being picky about a corner case :-) > > 2015-07-22 19:42 GMT-03:00 James

[PATCH v2] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-07-22 Thread James Clarke
On some systems, ext2fs.static would regularly hang at startup, as a race condition meant it would process paging requests while remounting. To fix this, libpager has been altered to allow inhibiting and resuming its worker threads, and ext2fs uses this to inhibit paging while remounting. * consol

[PATCH] Fix race condition in ext2fs when remounting

2015-07-22 Thread James Clarke
On some systems, ext2fs.static would regularly hang at startup, as a race condition meant it would process paging requests while reounting. To fix this, libpager has been altered to allow inhibiting and resuming its worker threads. * console/pager.c (pager_requests): New variable. (user_pager_init

[PATCH] WIP: Fix ext2fs remount race condition

2015-07-21 Thread James Clarke
--- ext2fs/ext2fs.c | 18 +++ ext2fs/ext2fs.h | 6 +++ ext2fs/pager.c | 35 +- fatfs/fatfs.h| 2 + fatfs/pager.c| 35 +- libdiskfs/disk-pager.c | 3 +- libdiskfs/diskfs-pager.h | 1 + libpager/demuxer.c

Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-07-20 Thread James Clarke
debugger), so I need to do some more debugging to see why. James > On 19 Jul 2015, at 15:00, Richard Braun wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 02:25:14PM +0100, James Clarke wrote: >> Yeah, I tried inhibiting both buckets, but the paging RPCs still got >> through, so my g

Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-07-19 Thread James Clarke
n/worker threads, as pager_start_workers just takes a bucket and returns void. Is there a way we can instead make the main thread and/or workers able to block ports_inhibit_X_rpcs like normal RPC handlers and be cancelled etc? If possible I think that would be a cleaner solution. James > On 19 Jul 2015,

Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-07-15 Thread James Clarke
hat's happening, and it's that the *file* pager is trying to read from disk. Any thoughts? James > On 14 Jul 2015, at 20:54, Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> > wrote: > > Hi James :) > > you found a long-standing bug in ext2fs. Fixing it allows us

Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-07-12 Thread James Clarke
That doesn’t seem to boot at all. I had tried changing it to inhibiting all RPCs (it looks like you’ve inhibited an extra class?), but it seems that paging is needed? Perhaps part of ext2fs gets paged out, and it needs to be paged in when remounting? James > On 12 Jul 2015, at 00:27, Jus

Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-07-11 Thread James Clarke
-request.c:113 (_pager_S_memory_object_data_request) 5 libpager/memory_objectServer.c:443 (_Xmemory_object_data_request) 6 libpager/demuxer.c:215 (worker_func) 7 libpthread/pthread/pt-create.c:64 (entry_point) James Clarke > On 27 Jun 2015, at 20:34, Richard Braun wrote: > > On Sa

VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

2015-06-27 Thread James Clarke
k. Does anyone have an idea how this situation could be occurring? James Clarke

re involved

2013-04-13 Thread James Simko
do you still need a technical writer to do documentation?

GNU emacs on Hurd

2012-07-05 Thread James Collier
ebian/ sid/main hurd-i386 Packages I would appreciate some advice on what to do next. Should I forward the bug to Debian (I can't find it on the debian bug tracker) with the patch? Thanks very much, James

Re: GSoC 2007: GNU Hurd

2007-03-18 Thread James Youngman
he moment.) Applied. Thanks. James. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Mailing list administration

2006-04-20 Thread James A. Morrison
Please, go ahead and admin the lists. -- Thanks, Jim http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~ja2morri/ http://phython.blogspot.com http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?page=jim ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Dresden 1945

2005-05-15 Thread james
Lese selbst: http://www.kommunisten-online.de/blackchanel/dresden3.htm ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: pthread headers

2005-01-11 Thread James A. Morrison
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, you seem to have completely missed *my* point. "extern inline" > will change semantics sooner or later, and I would assume that "extern > __inline__" does too. If you can tell me that my assumption is false, > be my guest, but -ansi is n

Re: rollover translator

2004-10-30 Thread James A. Morrison
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, > > I got this funky idea today, but I'm not sure what would be the best > way to implement it. What it would essentially do is provide a > "circular file", so when you get to the end of the file you start from > position 0. With the nice o

16 Years IT Experience

2004-09-29 Thread James R Bourgeois
16 years building and maintaining PCs, solid networking experience LAN/WAN/VPN, application development, HTML/ASP website development, departmental management, good organizational skills. Relocating to the Houston Area My resume is attached. I look forward to hearing from you. James R

Re: Gratuitous error with ext2fs on boot

2004-09-20 Thread James A. Morrison
I Juha Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tried to boot GNU/Hurd on my PC (asus a7a266 motherboard, duron and > 40GB maxtor hard disk). The Hurd partition size is 1.7GB. I have > managed to boot Debian GNU/Hurd with the serverboot.gz thing, which > has become obsolete, but not with the new met

Re: GCC 3.4 fixes and small io_seek fix

2004-05-07 Thread James Morrison
Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first part of this patch makes the Hurd compile with gcc > 3.4. Because gcc 3.4 omits all unused code, you've to give it the > attribute(used) instead of unused. It also gives errors when there are > labels at the end of a statement and the linux c

Re: Events in libcons

2004-04-04 Thread James Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Ok, so KGI (despite the bad name) is the Linux version of what I was > calling HIL. Then we should obviously just implement the existing > interface as best as possible; presumably it will all work > wonderfully. > > I'm delighted to hear of

Re: uptime (coreutils)

2004-03-13 Thread James Morrison
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Shouldn't fetch_boot_time be part of libps? > > As I said, fetch_boot_time() is a bad example, I personally don't see > a need for it to be in any library. But often when I hack coreutils > todo something Hurdish, I end up rippnig out code fro

Re: uptime (coreutils)

2004-03-13 Thread James Morrison
Shouldn't fetch_boot_time be part of libps? Jim ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Weird GNUMach crash

2004-02-07 Thread James Morrison
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is your crash server setup to do? Have you tried attached gdb to > > the crash server? > > It is set to --suspend. I have not yet tried to debug the crash &

Re: Weird GNUMach crash

2004-02-07 Thread James Morrison
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > While I tried to generate a segfault it crashed GNUMach (1.x, I have > tested both CVS and 1.2) with this error: > > panic: zalloc: zone kalloc.8192 exhausted > (There is a small pause here and a bit of disk activity/ flashing IDE LEDs) > hd1

Re: Fix partition detection in GNUMach

2004-01-18 Thread James Morrison
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:32:32AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi, > > This patch fixes the partition detection in GNUMach 1.x. Now an error > is displayed when there is an extended partition on the harddrive. > See bug #6378 on savannah for details. So with this patch the annoying error mess

Re: filesystem access security

2003-11-29 Thread James Buchanan
ke itself seems like a good idea. While giving users as much freedom as possible is wonderful, it doesn't make a lot of sense to give them the ability to set a translator for critical system parts that affect everyone in the multiuser environment, does it? James

Who's doing what on the HURD

2003-11-27 Thread James Buchanan
Is anyone fixing the 2GB partition limit on the HURD? How about using the latest March 2002 St Patrick's Day OSKit sources in the Mach? Is anyone working on the Mach and the HURD, if so, what is everyone doing? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: Fwd: [Introspector-developers] status report

2003-10-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
--- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:13:59AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > Yes, it is very consistent and abstract. But, it is also > incredible > > > slow > > > and resource heavy, and enforces a lot of

Re: Fwd: [Introspector-developers] status report

2003-10-18 Thread James Michael DuPont
--- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:52:14PM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > I was a bit surprised at your assertions about Mach and Hurd, > too. > > > > I think that mach has a very interesting and clean ap

Re: Fwd: [Introspector-developers] status report

2003-10-17 Thread James Michael DuPont
--- Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:03:58AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > No it doesn't. > > > No it isn't. > > > > Looks like you have been watching too much Monty Python : > [...] > >

Re: Fwd: [Introspector-developers] status report

2003-10-17 Thread James Michael DuPont
on : http://jokes4u.port5.com/montypython/ArgumentSkit.html "" PUNTER It isn't. Argument's an intellectual process - contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says. BENNETT No it isn't. PUNTER Yes it IS! BENNETT Not at all.""

Fwd: [Introspector-developers] status report

2003-10-16 Thread James Michael DuPont
Dear all, you might find this of relevance, soon we will be able to connnect the semantic information of the MiG interfaces to the information extracted from the gcc. mike --- James Michael DuPont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From James Michael DuPont Thu Oct 16 01:28:05 2003 >

Re: [patch #1599] [Patch #1599] store_typed_open on file namedoesn't call store_open

2003-08-03 Thread James Morrison
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Savannah-Server: savannah.gnu.org:443 [199.232.41.3] > X-Savannah-Project: hurd > X-Savannah-Artifact: patch > X-Savannah-Artifact-ID: 1599 > X-Apparently-From: 212.23.136.22 > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:17:39 -0400 > Cc: > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Spam-Status: N

Re: [patch #406] [Patch #406] A small clean up of vmstat

2003-08-03 Thread James Morrison
> Patch #406 has been updated. > > Project: > Category: None > Status: Open > Summary: A small clean up of vmstat > > Follow-Ups: > > Date: Thu 07/31/2003 at 22:44 > By: marcus > > Comment: > I am not sure what the problem is with the current code. In your mail you said that > vmstat woul

Re: CVS error for GnuMach

2003-07-15 Thread James Morrison
> From: "J. Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:09:56 +1000 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.

Re: Parted bug?

2003-07-13 Thread James Morrison
> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:14:34 +0200 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK > version=2.20 > X-Spam-Level: > >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: F

Re: Hurd program output for --help, --usage, and --version

2003-06-24 Thread James Morrison
>ifsock: all arguments yeild "must be started as a translator" This >may be valid output??? > > Valid since its a translator. --help, et al should still work. > >init: --help and --usage yield: "can only be run by a bootstrap >system" > > This is a bug IMHO, --help should a

mlock for the Hurd

2003-03-25 Thread James A Morrison
ter a minute or so. The error was something like panic: alloc pt zone exhausted", which I assume means the kernel was wiring the memory and ran out. I'm posting this here because I haven't had a chance to try the read loop. If the read loop works properly then we can proba

Re: please apply patches in bts

2003-03-19 Thread James A. Morrison
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:50, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:49:22PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > #177486: POSIX semaphore > > > > This implementation is not POSIX compliant. > > Oops, sorry, I mixed this up with something else. Fact is I don't have an > opinion on

Re: Bug#156600: marked as done (FTBFS: hurd should build-depend onautoconf2.13)

2003-03-13 Thread James A. Morrison
00 (EDT) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Authentication-Warning: rees.math: ja2morri set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using > -f > From: James A Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FTBFS: hurd should build-depend on autoconf2.13 > Deliv

Re: question about hurd

2003-03-11 Thread James A. Morrison
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:39, Sebastien DI MERCURIO wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a couple of question when looking at Hurd boot sequence. To > start the system, Grub (or any other multiboot bootloader) launch 3 > modules : the kernel, the exec server and the filesystem server. But, > how thoses

Re: Projects in the Hurd

2003-01-29 Thread James Morrison
task list in CVS or on savannah is up to date. There has been many requests for journalling file systems. You could also look at the projects at http://savannah.nongnu.org/hurdextras . There are also a lot of things that can be done with a lot of GNU programs such that they take advantage of

Re: init patch

2003-01-23 Thread James Morrison
() to >retry start_child as it needs to and crashes the system if nothing >works. > > Does it report a usefull message when crashing? I doubt it, I haven't got around to crashing my system by having no console. = James Morrison University of Waterloo C

Re: oskit mach needs patch?

2003-01-22 Thread James Morrison
-r -o $@ \ -Wl,-\( $^ -L$(OSKIT_LIBDIR)/.. $(OSKIT_LIBS) -Wl,-\) -lgcc = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

Re: init patch

2003-01-22 Thread James A Morrison
launch_something () to retry start_child as it needs to and crashes the system if nothing works. James A. Morrison 2003-01-22 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * init.c (start_child): Return err on error. Index:

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-21 Thread James Morrison
> Nope. Won't work. > > Any amount of clue appreciated. /hurd/console and the getty's appear > in a ps listing. > > -- > Lionel What does showtrans /hurd/console give you? = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hard

Re: init patch

2003-01-21 Thread James Morrison
--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This patch allows the computer to reboot if the user does not enter >a value for the path to a server. > > Didn't I post something similar a while back? Sorry, I did NOT find any similar patches.

Re: init patch

2003-01-21 Thread James Morrison
--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This patch allows the computer to reboot if the user does not enter >a value for the path to a server. > > Didn't I post something similar a while back? Humm, if you did I did find it in the

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-21 Thread James Morrison
milar. I could kill the vga console client, then when I restarted it the screen was full of funny characters. I fixed it by ensuring a bdf font was always found. That is why I did that simple font patch. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-20 Thread James Morrison
--- Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:16:25AM -0800, James Morrison wrote: > > >> If it can't execute /hurd/auth, init (...) > > > I'm curious, how did you make this happen? Did you remove auth? > > Launc

init patch

2003-01-20 Thread James A Morrison
This patch allows the computer to reboot if the user does not enter a value for the path to a server. James A. Morrison 2003-01-20 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * init.c (getstring): Return 0 if the user only presses enter. Index:

Re: userspace drivers

2003-01-20 Thread James Morrison
drivers. If you want to look specifically mach user space drivers you can read the mach 3 Kernel Interface[1]. If you aren't specifically looking at mach drivers, perhaps you may want to acquint yourself with oskit, and how GNU Mach in cvs uses the interfaces in oskit. [1] http://www

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-18 Thread James Morrison
mpty filename) > > -- > Lionel I'm curious, how did you make this happen? Did you remove auth? = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be

1024MB+ of Ram and OSKit

2003-01-10 Thread James Morrison
Has anyone checked to see if GNU Mach v2 can boot on a machine with >= 1024MB or ram? ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be e

Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-05 Thread James Morrison
a serial console or you could try using the kernel in the gnumach-dbg package, I think it stops on boot failures as opposed to rebooting. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to th

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread James Morrison
ter place for them. Even though it is useful to be able to read and use X fonts, in pcf/pcx format, I think having a /share/hurd/fonts directory for bdf fonts would be really useful. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B co-op http:

rpc trace and standard msg lists

2003-01-05 Thread James A Morrison
$(installed-headers))) cat $^ > $@ to Makefile.in would work, but I keep getting make: *** No rule to make target `device/device.msgids', needed by `mach.msgids' . Stop. James A. Morrison 2002-12-01 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * rpctrace.c: Add option

simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread James A Morrison
Hi, After discovering I could recover my vga console by specifying a font, I decided I wanted a system font directory, so I made one. Here is the patch. James A. Morrison 2003-01-05 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * vga.c (DEFAULT_VGA_FONT_PATH): Default path f

Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-04 Thread James A Morrison
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:41:44 +0100 From: Gerardo Pirla Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Hi James, First, many thanks for your help. The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!! I've tried:

Re: Help wanted to boot Hurd-J2

2002-12-31 Thread James Morrison
issue was > resolved tho. > > Thanks > Matt G. > There is no reason to physically remove ram from a machine. GRUB has an option, uppermem, that limits the amount of RAM the os booting from GRUB sees. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardw

Re: [Newbie] Bug in Gnumach's Makefile.in

2002-12-21 Thread James Morrison
problem with function 'panic', 'smalloc', ... in the oskit lib ) but > it > is another problem :-)) What platform are you compiling on? What version of oskit are you using? > I hope this will help. > > bye > > Laurent Gualdi = James Morrison

Re: gnumach + oskit + pcmcia boot failure:

2002-11-16 Thread James Morrison
> page fault linear address c001c > At one point GNUmach would crash if you pressed a button/key on boot. This could be what you are seeing. Stay well away from the keyboard when booting, see if that helps. = James Morrison Universit

some nfs clean up's I found

2002-11-09 Thread James A Morrison
some more error checking. James A. Morrison 2002-11-09 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * ops.c (netfs_attempt_mkfile): Use asprintf instead of sprintf. (netfs_attempt_unlink): Likewise. (netfs_report_access): Pass !ERR to process_returned_stat as similar

TODO items

2002-11-05 Thread James A Morrison
Hi, While searching for round_page, I started reading the TODO list. I found what seems to be an older reference to switching to libio. Anyway, the actual point of this is to ask where the BFD exec server has been resurected or if it has been excised yet. James A. Morrison

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