Re: OS development

1999-09-07 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books, etc are(preferably on the net) on the theories behind OS/kernel development and maybe how to implement them? I'm hoping there's something out there not necassarily on linux but on

Re: [fs/select] problem with get_user()

1999-08-30 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote: I have NO idea what the code was even supposed to do, but if it is supposed to do what I quessed it could do, then isn't this better: unsigned long peekd(unsigned short *x) { return peekw(x)|(peekw(x[1])16); } Yep. Not quite:

RE: Implementing vfork

1999-07-27 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: : The parent process's data segment is not copied, just re-alloced, and : rather than returning to the parrent process, fork sleeps on the parents : child_wait wait queue. Let me try to remind myself of the vfork semantics Basically, rather than

Re: Microwindows 0.83 released

1999-07-15 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: MicroWindows version 0.83 is released at ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows Do we need your bcc fixes to make it work? I don't suppose there's any chance of a pre-built disk image, is there? Matthew.

RE: Microwindows 0.83 released

1999-07-15 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: : Do we need your bcc fixes to make it work? No, I haven't published my ansi bcc or cross compilation stuff yet. That's kind of what I thought. Cheers. : I don't suppose there's any chance of a pre-built disk : image, is there? Sure - would you

RE: Capabilities

1999-06-04 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: I see. So the large code model is essentially implemented by combining functions together in a 64k segment until no more functions can be added, then starting another segment, with all functions being called using full seg:offset addressing mode. The

RE: Capabilities

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: : : Protected mode stuff. (With Expanded memory support). : :We're a ways off from this, but it'd be nice. I'd like to see : support for 64k segments. : : You then need a 386. 64K is the limit. The original work I did was designed :

Re: Capabilities

1999-06-01 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: Tell me of another editor. :) You're not going to like your more reasonable options, but I'll be blunt: vi or ed should work nicely, when ported. Why would anyone want to use any editor other than vi? Laziness. I invested an hour in

Re: Linux SBLive

1999-04-22 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Mihai Badila wrote: I heard that creative were being awkard about giving out any info to Linux developers about the SB Live, but since I have heard that they have employed some hacker (Alan Cox?) to do future drivers. First, you have no idea who Alan is. Second,

GEM discussions

1999-04-22 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
It may amuse people to learn that DR (now Caldera) have just released the GEM source under the GPL. http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/gemworld.html What fun :) Matthew.

Re: ELKS 0.0.75 released

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Simon Weijgers wrote: The elkscmd package has been imported into the CVS tree. You can use the same account used for the other elks modules (elks and elkspages). Name of the module: elkscmd. For those without CVS access, there are also nightly tarballs (of both CVS

elks vs. dosemu 0.9x

1999-02-15 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
Hi, Under dosemu 0.6x, I had a nice setup where I had "virtual floppy" devices for two floppies where I could test ELKS without having to mess around with floppies, c. Unfortunately, the syntax of dosemu.conf has changed completely in 0.9x and I can't make head nor tail of the new stuff. Does