Re: how to store static data in a multi-thread program?

2001-12-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Russell Coker wrote: > Have a global variable of type "int *", before spawning threads malloc enough > memory for an int per thread and have the global variable point to it. Then > have each thread know it's number (in some suitable way) and use that index > into the array. Or searc

Re: how to store static data in a multi-thread program?

2001-12-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 01:55, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > I've got a multi-thread program (in C) running under Debian/GNU Linux. > And I need to store a pointer somewhere in a system place related to an > particular thread in order to pass it to other routines running in the > same thread. In other words

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:17:09AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Just because it is easier to write scripts for Python than it is > quake2-engine, doesn't change the fundemental issue that the sources are > for an engine, not a game. S

how to store static data in a multi-thread program?

2001-12-24 Thread Andrew Makhorin
Hi, I've got a multi-thread program (in C) running under Debian/GNU Linux. And I need to store a pointer somewhere in a system place related to an particular thread in order to pass it to other routines running in the same thread. In other words I need to pass a pointer within a thread as if it wo

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I'm willing to accept the quake2-engine in non-us as long as it is > > Eh? non-us? Did the Supreme Court just uphold COPA and declare Quake2 > harmful to minors or something? Transl

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I'm willing to accept the quake2-engine in non-us as long as it is Eh? non-us? Did the Supreme Court just uphold COPA and declare Quake2 harmful to minors or something? -- G. Branden Robinson| The software sa

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:32:08AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > any ideas? TIA > > If the device isn't showing up in lsusb and so on you've got bigger > problems than finding a driver for it. Until you can get the system to > talk to it as a generic USB device (just s

Re: Bug#126317: ITP: robotournament -- Game where players program their robots against each other

2001-12-24 Thread Erich Schubert
> Seriously, for who want to test the game it might be downloaded from > http://robotournament.sourceforge.net, the latest tarball is at: or just check the bug report, http://bugs.debian.org/126317 where i added the correct url... or get the debian package from http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen

Re: openoffice in debian?

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:07:31PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: >What exactly is the situation with regard to openoffice going into >debian sid? I ask because OpenOffice 641C seems quite robust now (I've >been doing some statistical data analysis in it this weekend and it >works as w

Re: Need some shell scripting help

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:34:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1822 +0100]: > > > fishbowl:..b/pantsfullofunix.net> print -l * > > > adequacy.org_hacker.html > > > index.html > > > mirror/ > > > ms_white/ > > > www.unix-vs-nt.org/ > > > fi

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:15:40PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > any search on google or other search engines will reveal many thousands > of uses of the word 'zonefile'. like i said, it's in common usage in > the field and has been for years. but that couldn't possibly be > evidence, could it?

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:37:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > btw, as someone has mentioned privately, 'howto' is no more a word than > > 'zonefile' is. perhaps there should be auto spelling-flame bug reports > > on every package that use

Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:13:30AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adrian Bunk > | > | Really? I'm often happy and I see other maintainers that are happy when > | they get "new upstream version" wishlist bug reports - it does sometimes > | happen that for any reason you did oversee a new versi

Re: be my own official primary debian source

2001-12-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:40:37PM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:42:52 -0800, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I really want to know, is what script is run on the official > > mirrors that parses the pool directories and generates > > the Packages and Release files all on

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hrm. > > Are those gears I hear turning? :) It means I'm now more unsure than I was before so I want to wait before I say more.

Re: Bug#126317: ITP: robotournament -- Game where players program their robots against each other

2001-12-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:45:05AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > * Package name: robotournament > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.some.org/ I've tried the above url but I can't find the tarball to download :-) Seriousl

Re: RFC: Categories instead of Section - reworked

2001-12-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > - Frontends should be kept in unstable until a good amount of > > > packages has GNU-Trove categories > > > > I don't understand this comment. Do you think frontends won't be able > > to handle

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Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
I'm willing to accept the quake2-engine in non-us as long as it is available somewhere with a maintainer to bounce issues off of. I suspect that myself and Ben excluded everyone else will accept it going into contrib... I've downloaded just about everything there is at ftp.idsoftware.com and the d

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > But you do agree that it requires having *some* data, no matter what > > > "game" it's for? Which means having a Depends: quake2-data? > > > > > > And if you w

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > But you do agree that it requires having *some* data, no matter what > > "game" it's for? Which means having a Depends: quake2-data? > > > > And if you wish to argue that it can be used to develop the data, then > > you should have

Re: RFC: Categories instead of Section - reworked

2001-12-24 Thread Erich Schubert
> > - Frontends should be kept in unstable until a good amount of > > packages has GNU-Trove categories > > I don't understand this comment. Do you think frontends won't be able > to handle packages that don't have Trove categories? well, people might be confused if such a frontend comes into

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:45:25 -0500 Ben cum veritate scripsit : > > The "Deb" in Debian does stand for "Deborah", not "Debating Society", > > right? > > And I thought Debian stood for promoting free software creation. Putting > quake2 in contrib and tacking on that "purchase the non-free datafiles

Re: RFC: Categories instead of Section - reworked

2001-12-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:00:47PM +0100, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > - Frontends should be kept in unstable until a good amount of packages has > GNU-Trove categories I don't understand this comment. Do you think frontends won't be able to handle packages that don'

Re: RFC: Categories instead of Section - reworked

2001-12-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:19:40AM +1100, Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:00:47 +0100 > "Erich Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i reworked my proposal and ask for comments again. > > > > > In Woody, this separation was mostly removed with

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:24:21PM -0500, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Maybe they will! That would be great. But I just don't see any > > actual effort out there, and it's been possible for a long time now. > > What good is wasting the effort for a free set of datafiles

Bug#126356: ITP: peacock -- A HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME

2001-12-24 Thread Noel Koethe
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: peacock Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Archit Baweja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://peacock.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME

Re: pre-dependency for fetchmail, fetchmail-ssl

2001-12-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Isn't there this loop break hack in dpkg to allow for that? Not that > I would suggest having two packages depend on each other... :) Cyclic depencies are allowed, you just have to configure the packages in the same run. Wichert. -- _

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > > No, it doesn't apply, because quake2 is an engine for a game, not an > > interpreter for a language. > > Actually the quake2 engine IS. > It's a runtime environment (you might call it interpreter) for the graphics > files and the

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Erich Schubert
> No, it doesn't apply, because quake2 is an engine for a game, not an > interpreter for a language. Actually the quake2 engine IS. It's a runtime environment (you might call it interpreter) for the graphics files and the gamei386.so (or whatever it was called) These graphics files and the gamei38

Re: pre-dependency for fetchmail, fetchmail-ssl

2001-12-24 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
Richard Braakman wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:49:10PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:51:51AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: So you can never have two packages that depend on each other? Correct. Isn't there this loop break hack in dpkg to allow for that? Not that I would

usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-24 Thread Erik Steffl
I realize that this is not strictly debian-devel question but it is related to both debian and development so while I don't expect big discussion I would appreciate RT _specify_which_one_ FM. so far I have read the relevant parts of Linux device drivers, 2nd edition (O'Reilly), the info about

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:01:25AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:33PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > > > > Ben Collins <

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Jaime E. Villate
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:06:21PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:56:26PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > I'm entirely happy with putting it in contrib, but I'm entirely > > baffled by your position: what exactly do you think would be gained by > > putting it in main?

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-24 Thread Amaya
(Please excuse my English, as it's not my native tongue). Craig Sanders dijo: > small minded people think that dictionaries prescribe language. > anyone who has studied even basic linguistics knows that they do not, > linguistics is a *DESCRIPTIVE* discipline...it does not presume to > prescribe w

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think that's rediculous. Education is not a smokescreen, and you can't > > > > argue that there will never be free data available for quake2 (or know > > > > for sure that there is

Re: Quake2/GPL: At least source should go into main

2001-12-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erich Schubert wrote: >> I wonder how many people in either of these threads have actually downloaded >> this source and looked at it? > >i have. I even got it to compile... >and i think it'll need quite some work to get useful... >it has inline asm gcc doesn't like; th

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:01:25AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:33PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > But quake2-engine does not depe