On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:35:40PM +0700, Budi Rahardjo wrote: > Questions: > 1. what's the difference between these two milis (mailing lists)? > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > the type of msg is similar. Should I crosspost?
help-hurd is for general help and debian-hurd for help on Debian porting stuff or Debian-specific issues. > 2. where should MAXHOSTNAMELEN be defined in the include files > <netdb.h> ? > and what's the value? 64? > (i am trying to compile a program which requires that) MAXHOSTNAMELEN is not mandated by POSIX, and the GNU system doesn't define it. You should fix the code to allocate the hostname string dynamicaly #ifndef MAXHOSTNAMELEN. This site has information about MAXHOSTNAMELEN and other porting issues: http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/PortingIssues#MAXHOSTNAMELEN > 3. where can I read more information on Hurd details (especially > the networking part and settrans)? > I am confused with "settrans", /servers directory, etc. > (not familiar with that) > It would be nice if the reading materials are for beginners. ;-) /servers is a directory containing nodes where system servers are attached. For example, when an application want to access the network, it (the C library) will perform filesystem operations on /servers/socket/2 maybe the FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html) has something about it. > 4. I am still confused with how GNU/Hurd handles file systems. > ie. why mount crashed without arguments, this is a known bug, but we don't care much as we use settrans directly. feel free to debug it and try to fix it :) > why df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems df relies on mtab to know the list of mounted filesystems. for now you can only check a filesystem manualy as parameters. eg: df / > no mtab on GNU, base servers like ext2fs (which are part of the Hurd) are not in a centralised list but rather they found as attached translators of already known node. This makes it hard to obtain a list of all filesystems. IIRC someone was working on an mtab translator for that. -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
