Re: Porting Bind

2001-08-15 Thread James Morrison
--- Dios Del Tiempo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Well, _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX isn't always defined. So that isn't a > good > > direct way to do things. However, xgethostname uses sysconf > > if it can, but also deals with the problem if the name i

Re: Porting Bind

2001-08-15 Thread Dios Del Tiempo
--- James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Well, _SC_HOST_NAME_MAX isn't always defined. So that isn't a good > direct way to do things. However, xgethostname uses sysconf > if it can, but also deals with the problem if the name is too > long. Yes, I noticed that the last time I tried

Re: Porting Bind

2001-08-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:37:25AM +0200, Dios Del Tiempo wrote: > But I have a doubt: is xgethostname enough portable? Do you think I'll be > accepted as a patch for bind? It's the most portable we can do. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: Porting Bind

2001-08-15 Thread Dios Del Tiempo
--- Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > ftp://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/xgethostname. It is in the public > domain and meant as a drop in replacement for gethostname. Yes, I got it Monday and I like it; I'll use it to fix the easiest part of bind. The MAXPATHLENG issue comes next

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:54:26PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > We don't recommend trying to cross-install packages from Linux. What I > would recommend is that you use your Linux system to download everything > you want onto your disk (you can write your Hurd partitions from Linux, or > access

Re: programming help

2001-08-15 Thread Niels Möller
Matthew Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering if anyone could give me direction or tips with > beginning C on the Hurd. I take it you don't have much experience with C? Plain ANSI-C works on the hurd, i.e. you can use things like fopen, stdin, getc, so examples and exercises from an

programming help

2001-08-15 Thread Matthew Grant
Hi Folks, I have been enjoying using Hurd a lot I got it on my laptop, and workstation at work and home. You guy's are doing a great job with this OS. Well anyway I am wondering if anyone could give me direction or tips with beginning C on the Hurd. I got a book on C, going to take some classe

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Tristan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just installed Debian GNU/Hurd for the first time using the > F2 cds, and have managed to install most of the packages i need. But > since I use a dialup internet connection and ppp is not ready for > use (and i assume it won't be ready for quite a whil