Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-24 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! What is "..." supposed to be? Instead of cd .. cd .. you can easily cd ... Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, infor

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Florian, What is "..." supposed to be? Aitor Florian Xaver escribió: Hi! Another idea: Why not including "..." ? I am using 4DOS very often, and am happy with it. I mostly don't need more points :-) Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is sp

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-10 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Another idea: Why not including "..." ? I am using 4DOS very often, and am happy with it. I mostly don't need more points :-) Bye, Flo Eric, I have uploaded a test kernel [stable branch] for you to try. http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/kernel.eric.sys It implements the two items you sugg

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: ... So your kernel is still not immune to the problem entirely - it still somehow uses "names" of block device drivers even though those names are optional and not even related to file name processing at all. I will have to check and see if there are other references in the ke

[Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy, that was quick... > > quite straightforward: 1. . .. \ are all no device names and > > 2. dhp->dh_attr should be tested for ATTR_CHAR before comparing > > the IsDevice input to dhp->dh_name. > Eric, I have uploaded a test kernel [stable branch] for you to try. > http://www.fdos.org/ke

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: ... struct dhdr FAR *IsDevice(const char FAR * fname) has a problem here. But why does that only happen with DEVLOAD? ... I hope there are still some readers on the kernel list and we can move the further discussion to that list. A fix should be quite straightforward: 1. .

[Freedos-kernel] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as the KERNEL.dbgdev from fdos.org/kernel works for me in DOSEmu, I could do some DEVLOAD CD .. problem debugging: Unfortunately the debug output is very verbose and multi-line, so I replaced "media_check: no change" by "MC:ok" and replaced "get_near_f_node" and "got near fnode" by "getfnode"