Hi! >>>>> Mark Kettenis writes:
MB> sysvinit (? is there some hurd-ism to care about?), MK> the Hurd init is BSD style and has a lot of Hurd-isms. Is a MK> System V like init really necessary? It should be easy to change the Hurd init so that it understands sysv conventions, but there are more important things to do right now. MK> I believe Hurd filesystem translators do periodic syncing MK> themselves. At least there is some code in libdiskfs to do that. Yes, they do this, so nobody has to worry about sync/update or whatever. MB> Is it possible to include an empty file in the package, or should MB> it be created in the post install script? MK> # touch /servers/exec MK> # settrans ... # settrans --create --go-away /servers/exec /hurd/exec creates /servers/exec if it doesn't already exist, and tells the old /hurd/exec translator to go away if it is active (which it will be on a running system). MB> Then I think I'll try to understand why the current hurd MB> snapshot does not work. A fresh snapshot from the developers MB> would be fine, too, if they think they have fixed some things MB> (Gordon, could you please check this?). I'm just as in-the-dark as you are about this issue. I haven't had time yet to try running or debugging recent snapshots. devnull is working on this, though, and he'll probably make some progress in the next week or so. MK> http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/hurddev/ Excellent! Thanks a lot, Mark, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) Copyright (C) 1998 FIG.org; the creator offers you this gift and wants it to remain free. See http://www.fig.org/freedom.html for details. This work may be copied, modified and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
