Apologies for this

2021-03-17 Thread Peter West
To James; if you would like a reply to an offline email, please use an accessible email address. The last time I tried to reply, my message bounced. — p...@ehealth.id.au “…you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”

Re: read() on dir

2021-03-17 Thread Peter West
Thanks, Richard, for the history lesson. peter — p...@ehealth.id.au “…an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out…” > On 18 Mar 2021, at 2:50 am, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > I think you may be mixing apples and oranges. > > As I recall, the ability to

Re: read() on dir

2021-03-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I think you may be mixing apples and oranges. As I recall, the ability to literally use read() began in very early Unix, when only one filesystem type existed (before SVR3 FSS or BSD VFS mechanisms that allowed multiple filesystem implementations). The original type had 16-byte entries, with

Re: read() on dir

2021-03-17 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Argh! I was wrong. $ cat /tmp cat: /tmp: Is a directory Sorry for the noise. > Am 17.03.2021 um 16:19 schrieb Christoph Kukulies : > > There was some discussion in the FreeBSD mailing list about changing the > behaviour of a directory fd WRT > the read() function. A change has been made

read() on dir

2021-03-17 Thread Christoph Kukulies
There was some discussion in the FreeBSD mailing list about changing the behaviour of a directory fd WRT the read() function. A change has been made towards disallowing this from FreeBSD 12.2 onwards (IIRC) and there was big discussion on this since it „violates“ the cleanness of UNIX, that a

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Mar 17, 2021, at 07:47, joerg van den hoff wrote: > > > > On 17.03.21 13:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Mar 17, 2021, at 07:04, joerg van den hoff wrote: >>> and sadly even `sudo port -ns upgrade --force meld)' does not solve the >>> problem... >>> >>> too bad. but I appreciate your

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 17.03.21 13:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Mar 17, 2021, at 07:04, joerg van den hoff wrote: and sadly even `sudo port -ns upgrade --force meld)' does not solve the problem... too bad. but I appreciate your help. at least I now understand where approximately the problem is located ...

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 17, 2021, at 07:04, joerg van den hoff wrote: > and sadly even `sudo port -ns upgrade --force meld)' does not solve the > problem... > > too bad. but I appreciate your help. at least I now understand where > approximately the problem is located ... According to

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 17.03.21 12:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 17, 2021, at 06:36, joerg van den hoff wrote: >> On 17.03.21 11:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> I think there is something wrong with your /opt/local/share/gir-1.0/GtkSource-4.gir. Specifically in mine, there is the line: >>>

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 17, 2021, at 06:36, joerg van den hoff wrote: > On 17.03.21 11:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> I think there is something wrong with your >> /opt/local/share/gir-1.0/GtkSource-4.gir. Specifically in mine, there is the >> line: >> shared-library="/opt/local/lib/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib" >>

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 17.03.21 11:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Mar 17, 2021, at 04:07, joerg van den hoff wrote: On 17.03.21 05:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Mar 16, 2021, at 13:47, joerg van den hoff wrote: "** (meld:70489): WARNING **: 19:46:07.080: Failed to load shared library

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 17, 2021, at 04:07, joerg van den hoff wrote: > On 17.03.21 05:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Mar 16, 2021, at 13:47, joerg van den hoff wrote: >>> "** (meld:70489): WARNING **: 19:46:07.080: Failed to load shared library >>> './gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib' referenced by the

Re: "port install meld" does not yield working executable

2021-03-17 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 17.03.21 05:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Mar 16, 2021, at 13:47, joerg van den hoff wrote: "** (meld:70489): WARNING **: 19:46:07.080: Failed to load shared library './gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib: dlopen(./gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib,