Re: Permission models [was: Re: About the login shell]

2002-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
the file. For those interested in reading more about capabilities, I can recommend http://www.eros-os.org/essays/capintro.html as an introduction. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http

Re: About the login shell

2002-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
it won't have any friends. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [Enjoy this bug as long as you can, because when

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
this problem still have it or has it magically disappeared at some point (e.g. with the libio transition)? A proper solution would be welcome. For now, any solution would be. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems it isn't the same problem, as this did not fix it. But it seems something is broken here anyway: hurd:/cdrom/pool/main/s/screen# dpkg -i screen_3.9.11-5_hurd-i386.deb dpkg-split: error reading screen_3.9.11-5_hurd-i386.deb: Input/output error

Installing packages hangs

2002-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
or status file could not be parsed or opened. Thanks in advance for any pointers that help in solving this problem. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
included in the Hurd (Debian) package? If not, it would probably a good idea to add it. As soon as I have that, it might make sense to provide the full log. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http

Re: J1 fails to boot where H1 was working

2002-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Giuseppe Sacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s9 -s That should be root=device:hd0s9 Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking

Re: CD install instructions

2002-08-04 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
. It has been discussed a while ago. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here

Re: J1 iso images available

2002-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang ( who has his priorities right. :) ) -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here

Easy tasks

2002-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
to the Hurd itself, but note that there are many other tasks one can do which are more general and also not too hard, like adding support for Hurd-specific features to external applications. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: Is Hurd good?

2002-07-25 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
an answer to this question. - The centralized design of systems with a monolithic kernel also has performance drawbacks, I suggest you take a look at http://web.walfield.org/papers/gnu-virtual-memory-management-system-lsm-2002-07-14/. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL

Re: Advice for me too....

2002-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
with the C programming language (you should be an expert at it when you want to do serious Hurd work), for which we by the way even have a free book: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ctut-mb-rwhe/ Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: Which packages should I use?

2002-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
this term should be corrected. -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: Which packages should I use?

2002-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
as a difference between Linux and GNU/Linux, so the added GNU/ makes for a completely different meaning. So it certainly is never redundant. When you are too lazy to say GNU Slash Hurd, you can also call it just GNU, but be careful not to confuse people by doing so. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang

Re: Advice

2002-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: alpha.gnu.org Hurd packages

2002-07-22 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Hi! Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/ has disappeared, does anyone know where it has gone? In case anyone needs it, here is a mirror: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/hurd/ Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
for that? Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
I'd like to note that this discussion should probably be moved to bug-hurd, as that's the appropriate list. Daniel Borgmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:31, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: I don't think it should be a pipe. It should make it possible for applications to map

Re: porting nethack-3.4.0 to the Hurd: partial results

2002-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
= auids[0]; *suid = auids[1]; } #define UNMAP(kind) if (kind ## _cnt) munmap (kind ## ids, kind ## _cnt); UNMAP (eu); UNMAP (au); UNMAP (eg); UNMAP (ag); #undef UNMAP return 0; } errno = err; return -1; } Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang

Re: LinuxTag 2002

2002-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
(about 3.00 pm or so). I will be available at the FSF Europe booth, most of the time, where we will not only present a computer running GNU/Hurd, but will also have nice Hurd t-shirts for sale. We could almost rename it to HurdTag. :) Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: hangs on boot

2002-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) (One line.) Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
at times). Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
at least do our own release, in a similar spirit to the current CD-images. No, at least my philosophy is you do something the right way or you don't do it at all. I agree. We want 100% solutions. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU

Re: OT: Naming

2002-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
the people say and think is not relevant for us. Thus I intend to continue calling things by their proper name. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http

Re: joke/Debian secure by default (was Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd)

2002-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
on the list. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-19 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
interface. Thus, this is something completely different. So, why then do we really need /hurd? What are the *real* reasons? The reason is that the stuff in there is semantically different from everything that exists in Unix and ever will exist in Unix. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-19 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
in this libexec thing y'all can't live without? No, as they are started by users. /libexec is for programs which are not started by users. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the] [ cutting edge

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
to follow a Linux-specific file system standard doesn't make a lot of sense, for example... Until then, most requests will fall on deaf ears. Thanks, but we knew this already. ;) Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user

Re: Long term progress, not perfection

2002-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
, does it? Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been

Re: where do NEW packages go?

2002-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
hope that I'm wrong. :-/ Thanks for listening to me. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ [We're way

Re: Porting man-db to the Hurd

2002-05-08 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:39:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: (gdb) bt full #0 0x010c6851 in memset (dstpp=0x1000, c=0, len=68) at ../sysdeps/i386/memset.c:65 len = 68 d0 = 17 dstp = 4096 x = 0 #1

Re: Porting man-db to Hurd

2002-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [machine freeze-up] Funny, I tried it and got a segmentation fault instead of a freeze. I'll look into it in more detail later. It seems I did something wrong last time. But this time, I got the expected

Re: Porting man-db to Hurd

2002-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
for us, but of course, as with any bug, one would like to know what happens so to make sure it doesn't crop up any later time. ;) And maybe the problem won't get solved by switching to libdb3. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: Porting man-db to Hurd

2002-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
[machine freeze-up] Funny, I tried it and got a segmentation fault instead of a freeze. I'll look into it in more detail later. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking

Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing

2002-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
*' yields nothing at all). A part of the archive (including the bsdutils package) is still on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-libio. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org

Re: Hurd T-Shirts - anyone?

2002-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
to help us create a high-quality version suitable for printing on a t-shirt, that would we nice, though. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http

Re: For vim addicts

2002-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
has applied at least parts of my patches and he is working on removing the MAXPATHLENs himself. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org

Re: Roadmap?

2002-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
be started, but must be planned carefully. I can see that some planning has been done, but one of the people working on it would have to comment on the status. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http

Re: Hurd T-Shirts - anyone?

2002-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
? The GNU Hurd - be a part of it! The GNU Hurd - login and get stoned! The GNU Hurd - because Un*x has been obsolete for so many years now Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-:._ Omnis enim res, quae dando Debian GNU/Linux user Debian GNU/Hurd user `-:. non deficit, dum

Re: I can't find the prototypes for eg trivfs_S_io_read

2002-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
implementation or something like that. - what does the _S_ in the function-name mean ? io_read is the name of the RPC. S_io_read indicates that this is the _S_erver implementation. trivfs_S_io_read is the trivfs variant of S_io_read. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: spam-topcis

2002-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
mails. Why have I never found any of those X-RBL headers in a spam mail? Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-:._ Omnis enim res, quae dando Debian GNU/Linux user Debian GNU/Hurd user `-:. non deficit, dum habetur Hurd Hacking Guide - http://stdio.cjb.net/hhg.html ) et

[matz@ruby-lang.org: Re: Porting to GNU/Hurd]

2002-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Good news! :-) - Forwarded message from Yukihiro Matsumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yukihiro Matsumoto) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Porting to GNU/Hurd Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:25:46 +0900 Hi, In message Porting to GNU/Hurd on 02/01/14, Wolfgang Jährling

Re: Ruby status

2002-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Hi Niels! Niels Möller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is NUM a bignum type? INT2NUM() converts a value into a Fixnum if the number is small enough, otherwise it converts it into Bignum. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-:._ Omnis enim res, quae dando Debian GNU/Linux

Ruby status

2002-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
INT2FIX() with INT2NUM() where Ruby converts the errno constants to VALUEs would solve this problem, I did not test this yet. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Jährling [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-:._ Omnis enim res, quae dando Debian GNU/Linux user Debian GNU/Hurd user `-:. non deficit, dum

Re: Age Review and another Hurd webserver

2001-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Hi! James Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang: Thanks for the Hurd Hackers Guide. Is v0.2_1pre7 the latest version? I fear it is. But I will to do an update in the next few days. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang

Re: Average age

2001-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
James Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what the average age of GNU/Hurd users and developers is. I'm 18 since 973029600 (Unix system time :-)). Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang

Re: Debian GNU or Debian GNU/Hurd?

2001-09-08 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Hi! Evandro Fernandes Giovanini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't Debian GNU/Hurd be called Debian GNU? I don't think so; in my understanding, GNU is the name for a system that can be used with different kernels, including Linux and Hurd (which is not really a kernel, but a replacement for a