On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Mark has more info on this. It is that dbopen() doesn't translate the access > modes O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR etc not properly to the glibc open() call. > (The Hurd numbers are different from the Linux numbers). He will solve this > in glibc, AFAIK
Yeah, this is the correct solution, IMO. > maybe you want to apply the same changes to the standalone db packages? > You're certainly welcome. What do mean is the problem in the db packages? AFAIK the dbopen() is a glibc call, and should be fixed in glibc.. but I could be wrong. > > The package was damaged. It wouldn't even unpack. (I tried both with dpkg > > and 'ar x') > That's a sign that you d/l in binary mode (or I uploaded in binary mode :) Actually, I don't think so.. the rest of the CD was okay. (Yes, I burned a Hurd CD. :) > Not really. mandb wouldn't work, but the "man" command would still display > man pages properly. That could always do as a start. Another thing I think should be done is make a Grub installer for Hurd. Right now, it's _far_ too difficult to get the Grub on your disk. I think there is an installer that doesn't really work yet; is that so? I would more than gladly help on this. After that we could almost start doing boot floppies..
