Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Ian Pilcher
Keith Matthews wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:53:42 -0600 Ian Pilcher wrote: My thought is to use SGI FAM (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/), which is shipped with Red Hat and (according to bug #588) Mandrake. I'm not sure about any other distributions, but the FAQ on the web page states

Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:53:46AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: but doing something -- albeit imperfect -- seems better than doing nothing. This statement is true in many cases, but it is dead wrong when security comes into play. Ciao Jörg -- Joerg Mayer

Unknown message 0x0313

2002-11-14 Thread Fabian Cenedese
Hi While trying to find problems with messages I stumbled over a message I didn't know what it is. My app got a message 0x0313 when I right clicked on the app button in the taskbar, that on my old NT4. The only info I found is that the app should show the system menu like in this example: //

Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Ian Pilcher
Marcus Meissner wrote: Check up on directory notifications in Linux. A way cool thing. - catch SIGIO ... - fcntl(fd, F_NOTIFY, DN_xxx|DN_yyy); In fact, I've just been looking at them. Way cool indeed, except that they're Linux-only. --

Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Ender
It all depends which platforms you want to support in this patch, as far as it goes. FAM has support for a lot of different systems, but there's no need to really add it as a dependency IMHO. Adding support for the platforms we wish to support would be simpler. I think the best reference would be

Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Ian Pilcher
Ender wrote: It all depends which platforms you want to support in this patch, as far as it goes. FAM has support for a lot of different systems, but there's no need to really add it as a dependency IMHO. Adding support for the platforms we wish to support would be simpler. Ideally, it

Re: Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:04:24AM +, Keith Matthews wrote: It sems to have been dropped in RH 7.3 which is a good thing. No, it's not dropped. Fam requires portmapper. If not set up properly (i.e. by someone who understands what they are letting loose) portmapper can be a serious

Re: Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Havoc Pennington wrote: GNUCash has something like 40 dependencies including a lot of very unstable/unfinished APIs. FAM is 1 dependency and while it sucks, it doesn't change very often (or at all that I know of). FAM is one. Freetype is one. CUPS is one. OpenGL (mesa) is also one. They do

Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Marcus Meissner
Fam requires portmapper. If not set up properly (i.e. by someone who understands what they are letting loose) portmapper can be a serious security problem. The security community regard the introduction of fam a serious backward step on RH's part. KDE etc might use it but they do not

Re: dsl file for sgml faq

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Béron
Tony Lambregts a écrit: I have been fighting with trying to get your sample built on my system. The end point for me seems to be that in order to use your faq.dsl I need docbook DTD 4.2. RedHat 7.2 has Docbook 3.0 through 4.1 but 4.1 just does not cut it. jade:../faq.dsl:50:24:E: reference

Re: Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Ian Pilcher
Shachar Shemesh wrote: It's not that I am for adding everything inline. That's not a good idea. Also, I think a Windows compatibility layer can be forgiven for having more dependancies than a personal finance program. This holds especially true if non-core windows functionality is only

Re: Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

2002-11-14 Thread Mike McCormack
Hi, Personally, I think it would be better to use fcntl(F_NOTIFY), then fallback to FAM and finally no change notification. BSD can allways implement it natively too. Put it this way: if we believe 90% of Wine users are using Linux, and %50 of users have FAM, then it would be logical to use

Re: ReadFile speedup

2002-11-14 Thread Hannu Kotipalo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Julliard kirjoitti Keskiviikko 13. Marraskuuta 2002 02:00: Eric Pouech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just a dumb question: shouldn't we better (for synchronous unix reads) convert the fd into a FILE* (cache those FILEs for a few streams, or

Re: dsl file for sgml faq

2002-11-14 Thread Tony Lambregts
Vincent Béron wrote: Tony Lambregts a écrit: Vincent Béron wrote: Tony Lambregts a écrit: I have been fighting with trying to get your sample built on my system. The end point for me seems to be that in order to use your faq.dsl I need docbook DTD 4.2. RedHat 7.2 has Docbook 3.0 through

Re: dsl file for sgml faq

2002-11-14 Thread Tony Lambregts
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: On November 10, 2002 11:25 pm, Vincent Béron wrote: Dimitrie, the actual HTML code is rather ugly in it's source presentation, so don't hand-edit it :P Anyway, it's not meant to be hand-edited, that's what sgml and docbook are for. The layout is exactly what you

Re: C++ tests (1/2)

2002-11-14 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Patrik Stridvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of generated.c it is very useful since alignment and that sort of thing might pontially be different with C++. For other normal tests I'm not sure how useful it is to tests with C++ as well. It can't hurt of course but then it takes

RE: C++ tests (1/2)

2002-11-14 Thread Patrik Stridvall
Patrik Stridvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of generated.c it is very useful since alignment and that sort of thing might pontially be different with C++. For other normal tests I'm not sure how useful it is to tests with C++ as well. It can't hurt of course but then it

Re: COM Enhancement patch

2002-11-14 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Christian Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've sent a patch for ddraw COM management, I did not have any comments and the patch has been rejected. Could someone tell me if something is wrong or lacking? Well, I was hoping some of the COM experts would comment on that. If I understand it right

Re: C++ tests (1/2)

2002-11-14 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Patrik Stridvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then of course we want normal C++ tests as well. Many (most?) applications likely to be ported by Winelib are C++ application so we really should have tests for possible C++ problems. The Wine tests are supposed to test the implementation, not the

Wine Fun Projects v0.2

2002-11-14 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
Folks, The second release (much expanded) of the Fun Project page has been released, in all it's glory, at: http://www.dssd.ca/wine/Wine-Fun-0.2.html The working version of the above is at: http://www.dssd.ca/wine/Wine-Fun.html By now, you should know that comments, suggestions, and flames

Re: Wine Fun Projects v0.2

2002-11-14 Thread Steven Edwards
You might want to add visual-mingw to the winelib apps section. One thing I recommened to Jermey White a while back was that WINE might gain more of a market share if there was a easy way for people that are writing Windows apps on Windows if they had a IDE for GCC that was cross-platform. I

Re: Wine Fun Projects v0.2

2002-11-14 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On November 14, 2002 09:23 pm, Steven Edwards wrote: You might want to add visual-mingw to the winelib apps section. Done. Do we have a volunteer? :))) -- Dimi.

Re: Wine Time Line

2002-11-14 Thread Tony Lambregts
Thomas Wickline wrote: Hi, I have been looking over the FAQ and we have a question in the FAQ What is the History of Wine And after talking with Dimi Paun I would like to expand this to a Wine Time Line page that could be updated a couple times a year. This would give users info about

Re: Wine Time Line

2002-11-14 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On November 15, 2002 01:58 am, Tony Lambregts wrote: Where would you want it to go (in the faq?) or would we just link to it from the faq like the status page? I think it should be merged with the Press page. Who wants to read a dry list of old articles? That's there only to satisfy the