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- From: evanlang@uss.lonestar.org (Evan Langlois)
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 15:38:35 -0500 (CDT)
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-
- Lots of questions:
-
- What are the advantages of screen? Why should I use it? I know its
- a matter of personal preference, but so far I've found myself using most
- of Unix stuff that the list has found useful. Never thought I'd
- admit it, but Unix utils are useful :-)
-
- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- Workable Formatter, found on a.a.u.e.) to format manpages. Moreover, the
- unformatted page is required for the whatis database.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Is there a way to compress/uncompress this stuff on the fly? Many
- multiple levels deep? Maybe tar it so all the man pages can be in
- one file? Disk space is limiting. With DataLite or whatever (not
- Data-Diet, the other one that works at the BIOS level) work with
- MiNT on a Minix parition .. sort of a Minix-Stacker?
-
- Anyone got a good compression algorythm they could hack into the Minix
- driver :-) And fsck :-)
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- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- If the masterfd is closed, the process having opened the slavefd does not
- terminate, but takes about all CPU cycles it can, slowing down my Atari
- considerably.
- Shouldn't it be that Mint sends SIGHUP or SIGTERM to the process(es) having
- opened the slavefd when the masterfd is closed?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I thought that the SIGHUP or SIGPIPE or whatever would be sent when
- the last byte was read from the queue. Maybe the changes to the pipefs
- that change off-by-one problem have messed that up, or maybe your
- app is ignoring a signal or something?
-
- Or maybe its just broke :-)
-
- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- to ask: Is that officially documented behaviour? ;) It seems like every
- process supports only one active timeout. Shouldn't this be fixed?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Are you saying that Fselect's timeout and the Talarm are the same?
- What about the other Timeout functions similar to Talarm (forgot the
- names); will these share the same timeout as Talarm? I wouldn't think
- they would be the same, so I would guess they should be fixed.
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- No, MiNT doesn't have the braindead SYSV signals. It has BSD signals,
- which don't get zapped when the signal has occured.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I thought the SIGALRM was an exception since once it is expired, there
- is no time remaining. So, the handler doesn't get reset, but the
- alarm would have to be reset. So, I guess that isn't an exception to the
- rule, since you don't have to call Psigalarm again, no?
-
- I've hacked minixfs to use the update daemon, and the tsync and the
- update daemon seem to call slightly different code (not sure why this
- makes an difference) but I no longer have trouble with my Minix
- partition! Update works, and addroottimeout doesn't, unless there
- has been a change since H5/6 or Minix PL 10.
-
- I still have the problem of errors stating a that zone range error has
- occured, Drive D Zone 0 Count 1, Bad Filesystem, Repair with fsck. Only
- fsck doesn't even find the problem (annoying but seems to be harmless).
-
- The other problem is that fsck says Pass 3a Fixing Directories
- But then it doesn't say what is wrong with my directories, and never
- fixes anything since if I run it again, it tries to fix it again.
- These problems came about at different times, but may be related
- anyway.
-
- Any ideas anyone?
-
- Now that I have update back, I'm happy :-) No more inode bitmap
- errors.
-
- CYA,
- Evan Langlois
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