Re: Networking and stability (Was: Intro)

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > What, appart from the obvious, does crashme do? IIRC, basically it just generates random code and runs it, to see if the system handles it :) Davey

Re: Networking and stability (Was: Intro)

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > Agreed, but for initial coding, it may be best to run in user space > > till code fairly near to completion. > > There is alot to be said for this as an idea. Its much easier to debug > user space code, and it doesn't bring the system down when it

Re: Intro

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > We dont really have a networking layer. I don't that is in itself a problem > since you can prove you send/receive frames correctly and the rest is someone > elses problem. Agreed. My ne[12]000 code (which should be in the CVS tree by now), should in theor

Re: Y2k

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's SICK! How the h... can anyone take a patent on a time format?! This is only in America, the land of the free and the stupid. Davey

Compile help

1999-11-20 Thread Giles Russell
Ok, I have a problem on compiling ELKS, The error I get is : make[1]: Entering directory `/home/evil/elks/81/elks/fs' bcc -D__KERNEL__ -O -I../include \ -0 -c -o exec.o exec.c exec.c:173.31: error: mh undeclared exec.c:173.35: error: undefined structure element This seems to be linked with the

Re: Y2k

1999-11-20 Thread thorhajo
> This is patented. It is not legal to use this algorithm to deal with y2k > issues. See this link for more info: > http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/01/2047228.shtml ;-) That's SICK! How the h... can anyone take a patent on a time format?! -- Thor`n

Re: date

1999-11-20 Thread Mario Frasca
Phil Kos wrote: > What's wrong with the traditional `date' syntax? Why are we arguing about > changing it? Phil, we're not arguing about changing anything, I just did it! no, this was a joke. now seriously. as I wrote in the message you quote, I believe that using this shorthand makes parsing

compiling init from elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz

1999-11-20 Thread Olivier Latignies
Hi, I try to compile the elks commands from the elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz archive. I can't compile init (in sys_utils). Here is the error. [root@kirk sys_utils]# make init bcc -0 -O -ansi -s init.c utent.o -o init -H 2000 ld86: warning: _utmpname redefined in file /usr/bcc/lib/bcc/i86/libc.a(uten

RE: compiling init from elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz

1999-11-20 Thread Olivier Latignies
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alistair Riddoch Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 7:57 PM To: Olivier Latignies Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: compiling init from elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz Olivier Latignies writes: > > Hi, > > I try

Re: compiling init from elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz

1999-11-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Olivier Latignies writes: > > Hi, > > I try to compile the elks commands from the elkscmd-19991101.tar.gz archive. > > I can't compile init (in sys_utils). Here is the error. > > [root@kirk sys_utils]# make init > bcc -0 -O -ansi -s init.c utent.o -o init -H 2000 > ld86: warning: _utmpname red

Re: Networking and stability (Was: Intro)

1999-11-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Murn writes: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > > > Agreed, but for initial coding, it may be best to run in user space > > > till code fairly near to completion. > > > > There is alot to be said for this as an idea. Its much easier to debug > > user space code, and it d