Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Mo McKinlay
selves have named forks (or streams, or whatever you wish to call them) associated with them. Read the archives on this issue :) Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ekto.org Read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-02-02 Thread Mo McKinlay
le to ftp but > (sometimes) show with their `ls`, and never with nlist. > Maybe you can still download stuff if you are running from a > Web Crawler, but it doesn't work with `ftp` anymore. We've had no problem reports, and it works fine for me. Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay -- GN

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-29 Thread Mo McKinlay
ame of an EA > vop_eattr_serialize - export all the EAs as a stream of entries. > > Thoughts? You mught want to refer back to the paper to get the whole EAs > proposal... I shall, and get back to you this evening (workworkworkwork... :) Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Mo McKinlay
it always uses the same inode number > (11), but I don't know if that is anywhere enforced. I seem to recall e2fsck complaining when I renamed lost+found, but that may well be a consistency check. Don't quote me on this, though. Mo.

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-21 Thread Mo McKinlay
ng thy next line .. > now I know why I never read the bible. ..or Monty Python... - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-20 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just wait. My crystal ball is infallible. One of these days, that line will be your downfall :-) *grins* Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, Michael Rothwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mo McKinlay wrote: > > > Nono, that's not what I mean - each of the filesystems fails if it > > doesn't support what you're trying to do, that'

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
a completely different kind of inconsistency. Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
lame you to high heaven for that last suggestion if he was paying much attention to this thread :-) - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
t still allow ':'? Your solution as it stands would break in that situation (assuming I've not missed something :) Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
pen() (O_RDONLY, et al). openstream() then returns an fd which can be read/written/sendfiled/closed as the programmer wishes. How daft does this sound? Apart from the additional of a new open()-type call, your paper seems to be fairly solid. Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-19 Thread Mo McKinlay
h isn't really there? (Pretty much why I'm more in favour of a specific API for reading streams, extended attributes and whatnot, over any of the other solutions thus suggested). Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ---

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-18 Thread Mo McKinlay
s was my standpoint the last time around - a clear concise portable API for accessing streams (even if it *started out* Linux-specific) - without imposing silly semantics on existing applications which currently ignore streams anyway. Mo. - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-17 Thread Mo McKinlay
sleading. Apply a new accessor (which the colon would be great for, as it is already used for this purpose -- apart from the fact that POSIX already allows applications to use it in filenames). - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, David Lang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mo McKinlay wrote: > > > > The off button need not and _does not_ remove power instantly (if at > > > all) on many appliances. > > &g

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
o you make it so that it's acceptable? - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For inf

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
> > > > > it's essential for embedded devices. Answer your question? - -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-28 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > does anyone other than me think that the pm code is *way* too agressive about > spinning down the hard drive? my 256mb laptop (2.2.16) will only spin down the > disk for about 30 seconds before it decides it's got something else it feels >

Re: ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Mo McKinlay
you get the current maestro open driver to recognize the chip > at least the mixer will start to work. Aha - Many thanks! I shall go and experiment, then :) -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 10

ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Mo McKinlay
n - and any attempts to use the Linux soundblaster stuff seems to fail miserably :/] Any hints/clues/etc welcome. Many thanks, Mo. -- Mo McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GnuPG/PGP Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 - To u

Re: Posting to this list without 500 bounces?

2000-09-28 Thread Mo McKinlay
this, ISPs should start configuring their mail servers properly and close those damned open relays. THAT is who MAPS should be putting pressure on, not the innocent end-users. My serveral cents, Mo [who is now praying that his ISP's mail server has decided to work tod

Re: routing kernel

2000-09-17 Thread Mo McKinlay
ram and 500mb HDs as routers/NAT boxes - I've had no downtime in about 18 months on any of the machines. Each one runs 2.0.36 as RedHat patched it for their 5.2 release (I've never had to recompile the kernel for any of them, so I don't know who much this may vary from stock 2.0.

Re: [bug] test8-preX crashes X on APM resume >>>Re: [Fwd: Returnedmail: see transcript for details]

2000-09-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
> perfectly legitimate, tested clean as a whistle, and fully anti-spam compliant etc. We > shouldn't have to pay because someone else has decided our city has a con artist > somewhere. If you're on a fixed IP, I can relay for you, if that helps. Mo. -- Mo McKinlay