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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 11:13:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #100
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Linux-Development Digest #100, Volume #2 Thu, 1 Sep 94 11:13:12 EDT
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Contents:
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NeXT on Linux (Steve K Hunter)
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(none) (Hitzke)
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MATROX PCI Graphics board supported ?? (Harald von Fellenberg +41-1-801-3578 DTN 760-3578)
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PCM 1 not installed - Boot Message (C. Engelmann)
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compiling the kernel (Jonathan Booth)
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Re: Unix, Unicode, and internationalization (Yasuo Ohgaki)
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Re: __NEEDS_SHRLIB_libm_4 (Charles Lopes)
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Re: Kernel change summary 1.1.45 -> 1.1.46 (Remy CARD)
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lossage with "tar cz" writing to gzip; easy fix? (Chris Metcalf)
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Re: Does really Linux uses RAM efficiently? Undelete ability? (Alan Cox)
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AAAAAH - Where Linux.1.1.49 (Robert Mudge)
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Re: Load-time configurable kernel? (Vassili Leonov)
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Re: Load-time configurable kernel? (H.J. Lu)
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Re: Linux console to SCO comp. prob (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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Re: LSMI CDrom (Steve Smith, Logica UK)
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Anyone working on ISDN card drivers ??
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Re: IDE write bug (Mark Lord)
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Kernel change summary 1.1.47 -> 1.1.48 (Russell Nelson)
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Re: [Q] How to use SCSI Generic Driver ? (Drew Eckhardt)
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Re: Future of Linux (Matt Warnock)
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Re: Threads for Linux (Steven Buytaert)
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From: shunter@cais2.cais.com (Steve K Hunter)
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Subject: NeXT on Linux
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 22:54:35 GMT
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Does anybody know if the portable version of
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the NeXT environment is being ported to
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linux (i.e. OpenStep for Linux) ?
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thanks
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shunter@cais.com
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From: Hitzke <hitzke@blitz.chemie.uni-ulm.de>
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Subject: (none)
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 07:50:27 -0400
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Reply-To: hitzke@blitz.chemie.uni-ulm.de
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subscribe
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From: harald@zuunix.zuo.dec.com (Harald von Fellenberg +41-1-801-3578 DTN 760-3578)
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Subject: MATROX PCI Graphics board supported ??
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 11:37:09 GMT
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Reply-To: harald@zuo.dec.com (Harald von Fellenberg +41-1-801-3578 DTN 760-3578)
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Is anybody working on the MATROX PCI graphics board support? Or how can it be
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configured using default parameters? I have not found any indication about the
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board in XFree86-2.1.1...
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thanks!
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Harald von Fellenberg
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Senior Technology Consultant
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DEC Digital Equipment Corp. AG
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CH-8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland
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hvf@zuo.dec.com
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"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas"
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From: engel@yacc.central.de (C. Engelmann)
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Subject: PCM 1 not installed - Boot Message
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 18:32:39 GMT
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Today I installed kernel1.1.48 with PAS16-sound-driver
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and got the following message with DMESG:
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"PCM device 1 not installed."
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The sound card seems to work fine.
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Thank you,
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Carsten
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From: jmxb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jonathan Booth)
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Subject: compiling the kernel
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:35:28 GMT
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I am having trouble compiling kernel versions 1.1.35 and 1.1.13.
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I have a slackware instalation with gcc version 2.5.8.
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Problem trying to compile either of the kernels produces the following
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error message.
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Before here everything seemed ok, no error messages or warnings, then
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make -C zBoot
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make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/zBoot'
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS xtract.c -o xtract
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In file included from xtract.c:12:
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/usr/include/stdlib.h:293: parse error before `*'
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/usr/include/stdlib.h:296: parse error before `wchar_t'
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/usr/include/stdlib.h:304: parse error before `*'
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/usr/include/stdlib.h:306: parse error before `*'
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make[1]: *** [xtract] Error 1
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/zBoot'
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make: *** [zBoot/zSystem] Error 1
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Any ideas whats going on?
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Any ideas how to fix it?
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Please reply using Email
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thanks
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Jonathan Booth
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jmxb@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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jmxb@tardis.ed.ac.uk
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From: yohgaki@mercury.cair.du.edu (Yasuo Ohgaki)
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Subject: Re: Unix, Unicode, and internationalization
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:08:37 GMT
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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
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: In article <1994Aug25.212924.3202@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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: >Unfortunately, it appears that NT, and to some extent Windows (and
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: >of course the Mac's Word Script), are way, way ahead of anything we find
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: >in the Unix world - at least when it comes to internationalization.
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: Not really. There is a lot less publicity for the fact Unix supports
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: multiple language catalogs (and Linux does this now). But you'll find plenty
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: of tools for Unix that are multilingual or foreign language - MULE, kterm etc...
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: Alan
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: --
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: ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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: // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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: ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''
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As a Japanese user, I really want Unicode to be a world standard.
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I really disapponted that Win 4.0 dosen't support Unicode like NT....
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If win 4.0 supports unicode, then it will be .....
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Anyway, multiple language support is not enough.
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--
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Yasuo Ohgaki
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e-mail: yohgaki@mercury.cair.du.edu
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From: tjarls@petrel.infm.ulst.ac.uk (Charles Lopes)
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Subject: Re: __NEEDS_SHRLIB_libm_4
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 18:39:43 GMT
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In article <CvDz2x.n20@oasis.icl.co.uk>, skj@oasis.icl.co.uk (Simon Johnston) writes:
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|> This must be a FAQ, but why is it, now I have moved to slackware 2.0, I
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|> start getting the __NEEDS_SHRLIB_libm_4 message when trying to link
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|> anything ? (also libc_4 etc).
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|>
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|> Thanks.
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|>
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|>
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|> MODULE Sig;
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|> FROM ICL IMPORT StdDisclaimer;
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|> FROM Interests IMPORT Modula2, Modula3, Linux, OS2;
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|>
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|> BEGIN
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|> (* ------------------------------------------------------------------------.
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|> |Simon K. Johnston - Development Engineer |ICL Retail Systems |
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|> |------------------------------------------------------|3/4 Willoughby Road|
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|> |Unix Mail : S.K.Johnston.bra0801@oasis.icl.co.uk |Bracknell, Berks |
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|> |Telephone : +44 (0)344 476320 Fax: +44 (0)344 476084|United Kingdom |
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|> |Internal : 7261 6320 OP Mail: S.K.Johnston@BRA0801|RG12 8TJ |
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|> `------------------------------------------------------------------------ *)
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|> END Sig.
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|>
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You probably don't have the math library stubs (libm.sa) and linked the static
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library in instead. Try getting image-4.5.26.tar.gz and installing it.
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--
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------------------
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Charles Lopes | Internet: Charles.Lopes@infm.ulst.ac.uk
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Computing Officer | Phone: +44 (0504) 265621
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Faculty of Informatics | Phone extension: 5315
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Magee College, University of Ulster | Office: MB023
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From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
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Subject: Re: Kernel change summary 1.1.45 -> 1.1.46
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 12:33:14 GMT
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In article <3434oi$4os@clarknet.clark.net>, Marc Fraioli <mjf@clark.net> wrote:
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] In article 778359874@cs.cornell.edu, nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
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] > - New file attributes:
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] > - Immutable files cannot be modified. Data cannot be written to
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] > these files. They cannot be removed, renamed and new links cannot
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] > be created. Even root cannot modify the files. He has to remove
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] > the immutable attribute first.
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] > - Append-only files: can only be written in append-mode when writing.
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] > They cannot be removed, renamed and new links cannot be created.
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] > Note: files may only be added to an append-only directory.
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]
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] Very cool. Do these work the same way as in BSD 4.4?
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Mostly, yes. Actually, they were inspired by 4.4BSD flags.
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] How can we access these new features?
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The next e2fsprogs release (version 0.5b) contains support for these
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new attributes (in the programs chattr and lsattr). As of Linux 1.1.46,
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the kernel honours them.
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] I seem to remember reading that under BSD the immutable
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] files can only be modified in single-user mode. Is it necessary to be in
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] single-user to remove the immutable attribute as mentioned above? I think
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] this would probably be a good idea. Thoughts?
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In 4.4BSD, immutable and append-only flags can only be set and cleared
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in single-user mode. It should be easy to make it work the same way in
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Linux: add a system call which specifies the run-level and modify init to
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call it when going into single user mode or multi user mode. The problem is
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that Linux has many versions of init floatting around and such a solution
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would require that everybody upgrades his init program.
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In the current Linux implementation, only root can change the immutable
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and append-only attribute on a file, in single user mode and in multi user mode.
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] ---
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] Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
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] mjf@clark.net | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
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] | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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Remy
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From: metcalf@CATFISH.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris Metcalf)
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Subject: lossage with "tar cz" writing to gzip; easy fix?
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 12:17:17 GMT
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Does anyone have a patch to fix the problem with "tar cfz" where if you
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suspend and background the process, it dies with a wrong-size return
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from write()? I'm surprised to see such behavior in Linux, which is
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pretty well-standardized most of the time. (Clearly the write to the
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pipe is returning after an atomic-sized write on an interrupt, but
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it would be nice to suppress that behavior.)
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This is with tar 1.11.2 and gzip 1.2.4 (and libc 4.5.26 with Linux 1.1.49,
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but it's been going on a long time); a typical error message would be
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"tar: only wrote 2048 of 10240 bytes to foo.tgz". Email me with any
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responses and I will post a summary.
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Thanks in advance,
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--
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Chris Metcalf, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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metcalf@cag.lcs.mit.edu // +1 (617) 253-7766
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Does really Linux uses RAM efficiently? Undelete ability?
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 11:44:19 GMT
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In article <QUINLAN.94Aug25182536@freya.yggdrasil.com> quinlan@yggdrasil.com writes:
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>Linux has memory management which is on par with most commercial
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>operating systems. I know of none with better management, in fact.
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>(Then, again I can only quote a few names that have significantly
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>worse memory management.)
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The Linux memory manager has two problems, both obscure and both present
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in every other system I've looked at so far. You can't dynamically allocate
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definitely DMA'able memory, and you can't allocate memory dynamically with
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a preference for DMA'able memory (to lower bounce buffer usage). Since you
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have to have a >16Mb ISA bus machine with a bus mastering card for this
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to matter its not that important.. just a small irritation in the perfection
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8)
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Alan
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--
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''
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From: mudge@sunny.dab.ge.com (Robert Mudge)
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Subject: AAAAAH - Where Linux.1.1.49
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 11:56:11 GMT
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Reply-To: mudge@sunny.dab.ge.com
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I was referenced to linux 1.1.49,
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can't find it on sunsite...
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can anyone tell me where it is?
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AdTHANKSvance
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Robert
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email... <mudge@escmail.orl.mmc.com
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From: vassili@cs.sunysb.edu (Vassili Leonov)
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Subject: Re: Load-time configurable kernel?
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 15:48:06 GMT
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H.J. Lu (hjl@nynexst.com) wrote:
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: In article <mmcmcor.778253253@extro>, mmcmcor@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Mike McCormack) writes:
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: |> One of the good features of MessDOS is that you can easily reconfigure
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: |> your system by changing config.sys and rebooting. Doing this can add new
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: |> device drivers,etc. Why can't linux be made to be configured like that,
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: |> instead of going to all the trouble of recompiling the kernel?
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: |> Sorry if I'm just professing my ignorance :-)
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: Yes, you are. Take a look at the loadable kernel modules.
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It's always a pleasure to read something by people that know and are
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confident... :-)
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I would though say that modules in Linus have a POTENTIAL for having
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kernel configuration done easily and consistently at the runtime. But so
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far... Actually all the Unix setup is a terrible mess. Zillions of files
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in the etc (souldn't they be in var?), being mostly a shell scripts.
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If you can come up with some sort of .config.sys (name it .unixr :-)
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containing MOST of the tunable things in some kind of human readable
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form like:
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HOSTNAME=darkstart
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HOSTS=/etc/hosts
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LOADMODULE ft /lib/mods/floppy_tape.o
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etc. etc.
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which is parsed at startup by some rc.readconf file which does all the
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checks possibled and enforces a certain standards. And of course
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major and minor numbers should be determined and bound to entries in
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/dev directory automatically - /dev should be done in the same way as
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/proc - i.e. show something from inside the kernel.
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X configuration should also be done in a simular way - though it's much
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more closer to that now.
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Somebody was writing about including turnkey X into the distribution.
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It's only a metter of starting ConfigXF86 after installing X files -
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in my experience if you answer that questions more or less proper -
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the X will somehow run after you say startx.
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Configuration of Unix is unnecessary pain - most commercial brands are
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mostly concentrating on aiding that. But what need to be done is some
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redesign of the very ide how it's done - then it would be a real progress.
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Vassili.
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From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
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Subject: Re: Load-time configurable kernel?
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 16:55:58 GMT
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In article <34188m$h21@news.ysu.edu>, s0017210@cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene) writes:
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|> H.J. Lu (hjl@nynexst.com) wrote:
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|> : In article <mmcmcor.778253253@extro>, mmcmcor@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Mike McCormack) writes:
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|> : |> One of the good features of MessDOS is that you can easily reconfigure
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|> : |> your system by changing config.sys and rebooting. Doing this can add new
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|> : |> device drivers,etc. Why can't linux be made to be configured like that,
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|> : |> instead of going to all the trouble of recompiling the kernel?
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|> : |> Sorry if I'm just professing my ignorance :-)
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|>
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|> : Yes, you are. Take a look at the loadable kernel modules.
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|>
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|> Ok but why aren't they used more? I have been wondering about this for some
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|> time (ever since the SLS-1.05 stuff came out and failed to make a dent in
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|> the Slackware popularity). I am not knocking Slackware as that is what I have
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|> installed but why didn't the large number of loadable modules in the SLS
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|> distribution work out?
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I think it on the way. Right now all my networking and PCMCIA stuff
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are loadable modules. Give it a little more time. It will catch on.
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H.J.
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|> --
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|> | Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu
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|> | Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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|> |They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus.
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|> |Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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Subject: Re: Linux console to SCO comp. prob
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 13:01:06 GMT
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1) Where can I get the SCOANSI doc?
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2) Are the <20><><EFBFBD> <20><><EFBFBD> characters properly supported?
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--
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
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G=Harald;I=T;S=Alvestrand;O=uninett;P=uninett;C=no
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+47 73 59 70 94
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My son's name is Torbj<62>rn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 14:09:45 EST
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From: Steve Smith, Logica UK <STSMITH@ESOC.BITNET>
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Subject: Re: LSMI CDrom
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Whoever posted the bit about having the lms0.3c driver will they please PLEASE
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send me it uuencoded. Thnaks very much. I've been looking for a working drive
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r for months!!
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Steve, STSMITH@ESOC.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 14:55:35 +0200
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From: nhead@esoc.bitnet ()
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Reply-To: nhead@esoc.bitnet
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Subject: Anyone working on ISDN card drivers ??
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If anyone is working on or knows of ISDN drivers for Linux systems please would you
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let me know ?? I'm considering moving into the digital world and I need some
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feel that my PC won't have to revert to running the Devil's OS ....
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Thank, Nigel.
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PS: Do you have ISDN in the US of A yet ??
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------------------------------
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From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.periphs
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Subject: Re: IDE write bug
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 13:19:54 GMT
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In article <343uhh$ms2@usenet.rpi.edu> wilsonj@alum01.its.rpi.edu writes:
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>Does anyone know the specifics of the alleged bug in some IDE drives
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>where if you get an interrupt while writing data to the sector buffer,
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I know a fair bit about it.
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A very tiny percentage of IDE drives, mostly very early ones,
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have this problem (earlier models of Seagate, Quantum, Conner brands).
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The problem is not "if you get an interrupt", but rather "if you experience
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any delay/latency during transfering of a sector of data".
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To prevent it, disable interrupts for the duration of the sector transfer.
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The vast majority of IDE drives do *not* have this problem,
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and that IDE spec (AT Attachment Interface..) says nothing about
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it or about any such weird timing requirements.
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--
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mlord@bnr.ca Mark Lord BNR Ottawa,Canada 613-763-7482
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From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.announce
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Subject: Kernel change summary 1.1.47 -> 1.1.48
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Date: 01 Sep 1994 02:43:37 GMT
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Rename sys_call.s to entry.s and put it in arch/i386.
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Create the entry.S file from the appropriate architechture entry.S.
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Add Ethernet drivers for ni5210 and ni6510 to alpha test list.
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Added /proc/dma to report names of drivers that use DMA resources.
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Change floppy parameters for 800KB, 1.04MB and 1.12MB formats.
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Add better reporting for the hard disk driver.
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Reset drives in case we changed the geometry.
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Make multiple mode and irq-unmasking have default, compiled-in options.
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Check for disk change before loading ramdisk.
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Didn't clear all of the Ethenret device structure's memory.
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SCSI CD-ROM detection notice was printing a number one too high.
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open/fcntl - O_SYNC is now implemented on blocks devices and on files
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located on an ext2 file system
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Added a revision level in the superblock of the ext2 filesystem
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(starting at revision zero).
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Oops, caught a sillyness in memset for constant pattern and count.
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Not a bug, just a waste of time/space.
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Removed ncp additions.
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--
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-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
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Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key
|
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11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it?
|
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Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.
|
||
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|
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
|
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Subject: Re: [Q] How to use SCSI Generic Driver ?
|
||
Date: 31 Aug 1994 17:14:00 GMT
|
||
|
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In article <1994Aug30.133351.24651@rz.uni-hildesheim.de>,
|
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Holger Laebe <hlae0999@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> wrote:
|
||
>i'd like to write a program which talk to an SCSI
|
||
>Scanner. the brand of the scanner is not known yet
|
||
>but it is assumed that all documentation is included.
|
||
>
|
||
>so my question :
|
||
> - how can i send/receive data to a known SCSI Id
|
||
|
||
Currently, there is no mechanism to send data to a given
|
||
SCSI bus/target/lun (it's mostly an anachronism from
|
||
having a 16 bit dev_t and 8 bit minor numbers).
|
||
|
||
However, it is possible to send arbitrary non-vendor specific
|
||
commands to any supported (disk, tape, cd, worm) or unsupported
|
||
(with a change to force detection of the device in scsi.c)
|
||
devices.
|
||
|
||
> - is this captured by the Generic SCSI Device
|
||
|
||
Yes.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
|
||
subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
|
||
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own
|
||
downfall by doing so." -- Adolf Hitler
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: mwarnock@garlic.com (Matt Warnock)
|
||
Subject: Re: Future of Linux
|
||
Date: 31 Aug 1994 21:45:55 -0700
|
||
|
||
In article <3426mm$o8q@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>,
|
||
Erik Troan <ewt@merengue.unc.edu> wrote:
|
||
>We could easily put together either a 16 color 640x480 60 Hz server that
|
||
>would work on most any VGA card. Why hasn't anyone done this? It's SLOW
|
||
>and UGLY.
|
||
|
||
Okay, but I have a setup like most new Linux users: 14' monitor, 1 meg card.
|
||
640x480 is pleasant but not enough real estate. 800x600 is too small to work
|
||
at for extended periods. 1024x768 is masochistic. So what do I do? I run
|
||
charmode, that's what.
|
||
|
||
>Is that really a problem? Yes. If we hand users a working X setup they won't
|
||
>change it for a long time. Linux/X will then suffer from criticism over
|
||
>the speed of the windowing system, lack of screen real estate, and horrible
|
||
>refresh rates. Is it really better to give people a half-assed system
|
||
>or let them take the time to get it working right? While the second
|
||
>approach is more difficult and time consuming for the user the result
|
||
>is far superior.
|
||
|
||
I disagree. Let them get a taste of a working system first. I would
|
||
rather have an inferior solution NOW than a better solution but only
|
||
if I can grunt it out. Especially since in Unix/Linux there is
|
||
already so MUCH to learn. I have ashcanned DOS for Linux, and I am
|
||
now up to about 50-60% of DOS productivity. that's OK, cause I was
|
||
always at the limits with DOS. But there is a very real initial
|
||
frustration with having to roll your own everything from the ground
|
||
up. I couldn't even write a reasonable letter without learning TeX.
|
||
Sorry, but folks with less patience wouldn't touch it.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
W. Matthew Warnock, Attorney (mwarnock@garlic.com) Tel:408.778.7273
|
||
60 West Main Avenue, Suite 12A, Morgan Hill CA 95037-4553 Fax:408.778.7989
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert)
|
||
Subject: Re: Threads for Linux
|
||
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 07:54:35 GMT
|
||
|
||
Nicolas Droux (droux@info.isbiel.ch) wrote:
|
||
: I need to be able to create threads, or lightweight processes, under
|
||
: Linux. Is there a good solution to this problem ? Is this feature
|
||
: integrated in a recent release of the kernel, is it planned, or is it
|
||
: possible to do this by means of a 3rd party package ?
|
||
|
||
Use archie to locate 'pthread' (use the substring matching). There
|
||
is a library, rather extensive, that supports Linux with threads,
|
||
mutexes and reentrant replacements for several functions. It's
|
||
only drawback is that it isn't documented (yet). You should get
|
||
a hold on the posix draft 1003.4a (I think) as documentation.
|
||
I couldn't find it on the net. Recently, the drafts aren't available
|
||
anymore via ftp. If someone could point me to this draft, please...
|
||
|
||
Stef
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Steven Buytaert
|
||
|
||
WORK buytaert@imec.be
|
||
HOME buytaert@innet.be
|
||
|
||
'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
|
||
(A. Einstein)
|
||
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