Second shot at PAM

2000-10-28 Thread Igor Khavkine
Ok, I took took heed of the comments that I recieved and I updated the patch. So here it is, less __GNU__ and more common sense. The patch should work for Linux and Hurd so it can be incorporated into the debian package right away, whether it should be submitted to the upstream maintainers should

Re: Porting issues...

2000-10-28 Thread Ramakrishnan.M
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:19:02 +0200 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started a bit at www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian, but it's far > from complete. Great. This page is very useful. It would have been good if you can update the above page itself atleast occasionally...

Re: Porting issues...

2000-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:59:39PM +0530, Ramakrishnan.M wrote: > Hello >is there a webpage which lists the proting issues (and solutions..:-) > ) encountered by the developers while porting programs from linux/bsd to > GNU/Mach? I started a bit at www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-d

Re: Devel beginner

2000-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 05:56:49PM +0200, Ondøej Hurt wrote: > I am new to Hurd. I want to develop for it but I must learn first. > What would you recommend a beginner to read and in what order ? You already found the Hurd reference manual and the mach papers (did you find Mach Server Writer and m

Devel beginner

2000-10-28 Thread Ondřej Hurt
Hi, I am new to Hurd. I want to develop for it but I must learn first. What would you recommend a beginner to read and in what order ? I read "The hurd reference manual" a bit but it did not make much sense to me. I have also studied a few mach papers (manual, threads,machsys,machuse). I understoo

Porting issues...

2000-10-28 Thread Ramakrishnan.M
Hello is there a webpage which lists the proting issues (and solutions..:-) ) encountered by the developers while porting programs from linux/bsd to GNU/Mach? -- Ramakrishnan

libc0.2 problems

2000-10-28 Thread Ramakrishnan.M
Hello all, I managed to compile gnumach from the sources(obtained from debian repositories with patch 7) and got rid of the booting problems.(It was hanging after detecting fd0). I am using the same /home partition as that used by GNU/Linux. I pulled the hurd sources from

Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-28 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:38:17PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > I agree, if Mach is taken out of the picture there is no reason to stick with > Mach legacy like cthreads and even MIG. MIG is not a very good IDL language > it's highly Mach specific (duh Mach Interface Generator) and only supports

Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-28 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:17:49PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello all; Hello, > > Many of us have had a discussion in #hurd on irc.openprojects.net. The > discussion was about replacing gnumach with L4. > > Reasons for doing this: > [..] > > There is real interest in doing this, so please