Re: GNU under emulator

2002-06-27 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Christophe AUGIER] I've installed the hurd under bochs and it is awful. It's really too slow to do something with and i've encountered a lot of problems during the installation. (Athlon 700MHz) As bochs is full PC emulation, it will be slow, but at least it's working, right? ;) I

Re: Status of the Hurd t-shirts (oh, and ...)

2002-04-17 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Jan Atle Ramsli] Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: I wonder if anyone knows why B1FF ALWAYS WROTE IN CAPATUL LETTER WITH MISTAKES INEM? If you know this to be true, you might want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the entry in the jargon file on B1FF updated. According to the jargon file, B1FF

Re: recursive commands

2002-04-02 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Craig Allan Jeffree] old = open(.); chdir(foo); delete stuff fchdir(old); delete more stuff Isn't this potentially racey as well? I can see that fchdir(old); will definately take you back to the parent of foo but how can you be sure that the directories aren't moved around

recursive commands

2002-03-26 Thread Oystein Viggen
Hi I was wondering: If a user attaches a translator to a node in /tmp that shows, say, /etc, /sbin, /, or something else, and root runs rm -Rf /tmp, what will happen? Will it be: 1. rm sees a directory, recurses, and deletes a lot of important files? 2. rm sees a directory and recurses, but

Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

2002-03-18 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Niels Möller] Well, translators run as the owner of the node to which they are attached. Don't attach translators you don't trust to your files. And don't attach translators to files you don't trust. I don't think there is anything today that stops me from sending you an ext2 image with

Re: Help Installation

2002-03-01 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Schmidt Péter] * What is the difference between G1, H1, H2 and H3 CD ROM images at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/iso ? Basically, letters further out in the alphabet are better, and for releases with the same number, higher numbers are better. H3 is the newest one. * What would

Re: Looking for Debian/Hurd packages

2002-02-27 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Ludovic Courtès] I am not a Debian expert, but I thought that the Hurd packages could be found in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386/ but this directory is actually empty. I thought so too. At least some of the packages can still be found under

Re: Looking for Debian/Hurd packages

2002-02-27 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Jeff Bailey] All packages uploaded in the year or so should be under debian/pool. The only files left in the binary-hurd-i386 directory will be those that couldn't be rebuilt for some reason. OK. I thought there would be symlinks in binary-hurd-i386 anyway? Or is the point that the

Re: dpkg-source not found

2001-04-30 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Aggredyne: Where do I get dpkg-source? Is it a symlink or something? It is part of the package dpkg-dev. Oystein -- When in doubt: Recompile. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd