Re: Bug#652575: rsyslog: /etc/init.d/rsyslog modifications for GNU/Hurd

2012-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Biebl, le Tue 31 Jan 2012 07:54:24 +0100, a écrit : I'd like to get rid of arch specific code in the init script and instead move the pipe to /run/xconsole and create a symlink in /dev for backwards compat with existing tools. Would this work on hurd? It should work. (the

Re: Thoughts on MAXPATHLEN

2012-01-31 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:31:58AM -, Justus Winter wrote: 1. File bugs for software that uses MAXPATHLEN and co, do so politely and explain the issues. Talk directly to upstream and *do not* mention the Hurd. Without mentioning there is at least a system out there on which the issue

BIG FAT WARNING

2012-01-31 Thread Svante Signell
Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is you want to play safe. They can cause your filesystem to be heavily trashed, at least it did for me (on two kvm instances, twice on one of them!): In an ssh window: (second time, first with -21!) Preparing to replace sysvinit

Re: Thoughts on MAXPATHLEN

2012-01-31 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Richard Braun (2012-01-31 09:59:58) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:31:58AM -, Justus Winter wrote: 1. File bugs for software that uses MAXPATHLEN and co, do so politely and explain the issues. Talk directly to upstream and *do not* mention the Hurd. Without mentioning there is at

Re: BIG FAT WARNING

2012-01-31 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is you want to play safe. They can cause your filesystem to be heavily trashed, at least it did for me (on two kvm instances, twice on one of them!): What's your

Re: BIG FAT WARNING

2012-01-31 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:29 +0100, Richard Braun wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is you want to play safe. They can cause your filesystem to be heavily trashed, at least it did for me

Re: BIG FAT WARNING (sysvinit)

2012-01-31 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi, (a proper subject would have helped a bit more...) Alle martedì 31 gennaio 2012, Svante Signell ha scritto: Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is you want to play safe. In particular, any version of sysvinit = 2.88dsf-19 during the migration from

suckless-tools-38 hurd patch (PATH_MAX)

2012-01-31 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Hi! Another (small) one if some of you guys have time to review some code. Cheers, Tanguy --- old/suckless-tools-38/dmenu/dmenu_path.c2012-01-31 13:02:23.226833682 +0100 +++ suckless-tools-38/dmenu/dmenu_path.c2012-01-31 14:01:10.282784329 +0100 @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ void

Re: Thoughts on MAXPATHLEN

2012-01-31 Thread Jérémie Koenig
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Justus Winter teyth...@jade-hamburg.de wrote: Well, fixing fixed-sized buffer issues is a good exercise to improve ones c skills, but I do not see how it helps anyone to get a foot into the Hurd project if he fixed a bug in e.g. nautilus or tar. A social foot

Re: suckless-tools-38 hurd patch (PATH_MAX)

2012-01-31 Thread Jérémie Koenig
Hi Tanguy, On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tanguy LE CARROUR tanguy.lecarr...@gmail.com wrote: Another (small) one if some of you guys have time to review some code. The patch looks good, you should submit it. -- Jérémie Koenig j...@jk.fr.eu.org http://jk.fr.eu.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: suckless-tools-38 hurd patch (PATH_MAX)

2012-01-31 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Hi 2012/1/31 Jérémie Koenig j...@jk.fr.eu.org: The patch looks good, you should submit it. Thanks, I'll do that! question: first I submit it to this list as draft and then what? For instance, the memstat patch I sent few days ago hasn't been commented for days... what is the next step?

suckless-tools: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2012-01-31 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Source: suckless-tools Version: 38 Severity: important Tags: patch User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org Usertags: hurd Hi, This patch solves the build problems for GNU/Hurd due to PATH_MAX issues. The solution is to make dynamic string allocations instead of using fixed length buffers. The patch