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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: MiNT 1.10 (+various patches) and Minixfs 0.6 pl.10.. Help!!!
- Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 07:46:27 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <9405240601.AA06469@pirol.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> from "itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de" at May 24, 94 08:01:25 am
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- > Hi!
- >
- >> Now I find that I can't compile anything on a Minix partition as I keep on
- >> getting the following error messages generated by Minixfs:-
- >>
- >> pid 64 (cc1):minixfs:Rwabs returned -36 sector 5785 drive D:
- >
- > Looks like a nasty side effect of my curproc->in_dos idea to prevent
- >programs from making direct rwabs calls. Obviously, if minixfs uses the
- >addroottimeout option, the current program must neither be in a gemdos
- >operation, nor running with euid=0, which are the conditions for the check.
- >I've also seen this message, but it looks like minixfs recognizes this and
- >doesn't regard these sectors as written, in order to try it later again.
-
- Well, it causes gcc to fail miserably, hence I can't compile anything!
-
- > If there's going to be a new domain soon, the check could be replaced by
- >something different, say, completely dropped as there shouldn't be any legal
- >bios/xbios calls any more, but for the moment, I fail to know a fix... ;-(
-
- Oh well.
-
- >ciao,
- >TeSche
- >
- >private PS: Hold on, lots of MiNTOS fixes are about to come... :-)
-
- Fine.. pitty I won't be able to use them as I won't be able to re-compile
- MiNT!
-
- >--
- >Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...)
- >Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Europe, Earth...
- >| Use any of "finger itschere@129.70.131 |
- >| Last updated: 14. April 1994 |
-
- I seem to be in a catch-22 position:-
-
- I can't compile MiNT to fix the problem which stops me from
- compiling MiNT.
-
- Also, I can't downgrade to Minixfs <pl10 as my Minix partitions now
- use the new symlink format.
-
- Steve
-
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