Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-05 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:52:35AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, 05 May 2000 02:45:50 Colin Watson wrote: > > And, as a side note, I understand that the reason this is there by > > default is that the hurd-i386 architecture is using the same source for > > the base-files packages as othe

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, 05 May 2000 02:45:50 Colin Watson wrote: > Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 5) > >> `which' and `type' don't work correctly > >> They shows all commands to be /usr/bin/*, > >> what is wrong, althru will work. > > > >Tak

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, 04 May 2000 17:30:51 Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > 4) > > > Is there any fatfs translator ? > > > > I am currently writing one! > > I volunteer to test it. Great. I hope to release it tonight. I got it working for FAT12 so far, and if I didn't do a stupid mistake, it should work on a

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 5) >> `which' and `type' don't work correctly >> They shows all commands to be /usr/bin/*, >> what is wrong, althru will work. > >Take /usr/bin off your $PATH then. And, as a side note, I understan

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:55:50PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > KGI is quite portable (some parts needs to be non-preemptive, possible on > > Mach ?) > > Why does it require that -- does it work on multiprocessors at > all? It was s

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KGI is quite portable (some parts needs to be non-preemptive, possible on > Mach ?) Why does it require that -- does it work on multiprocessors at all? > I'm not going to try compiling gnumach in *near* term. > I had enough bad experience with L

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5) > `which' and `type' don't work correctly > They shows all commands to be /usr/bin/*, > what is wrong, althru will work. Take /usr/bin off your $PATH then.

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:54:31PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:35:19PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > > but why does bash need `mesg' ? > > It's part of your login script (/root/.profile) Thanks, it worked > > 3) > > I have problems with networking > > T

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:39:50PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Therefore there are these possibile reasons, why it is possible to r/w > > hardware ports : > > - I/O Permision Level is way too low > > but asm(pushfl) says IOPL=0 (ke

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-04 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore there are these possibile reasons, why it is possible to r/w > hardware ports : > - I/O Permision Level is way too low > but asm(pushfl) says IOPL=0 (kernel only) > - user programs run in kernel space > I hope not, no test was done

Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:35:19PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > but why does bash need `mesg' ? It's part of your login script (/root/.profile) > 3) > I have problems with networking > There is no eth, only loopback should be used > showtrans says /servers/socket/2 is /hurd/pfinet -i=

Major GNU/Hurd using report

2000-05-03 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
1) bash protests that it can't find `mesg' program when I log in bash is of course right, because there is no `mesg' installed, and `mesg' is part of sysvinit, so it's corrrect it's not installed but why does bash need `mesg' ? 2) Famous I/O problem I tried to check if VGA registers are the only