Over the weekend, I've managed to put together some stuff which other people might find useful. First of all, I've managed to build GNU diff, GNU sed, Larry Wall's patch and tr. They pretty much built without needing to make any changes --- the only real problem which I encountered while trying to build them is that the configuration progam which you need to run to build sed itself wants to uses sed to build the Makefile. Oops. :-) In any cases, if anyone wants to just snarf the binaries, they ...

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 15:53:55 +0200 From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi> gets symbolic links. I think the easiest way is to move downwards from the "to"-directory via ".." until one hits root (or a mount-point) or the "from"-directory. It shouldn't be hard, it's just SMOP. Well, the problem is that another rename() could be happening while you are traversing up the tree (towards the root) checking to see if you hit the "from" directory. The simplest cas...

Hi Linuxers! I recently ported CvW's C386 to Linux. I can do development on a 2Meg-System too. (BTW Linus, that caused the gcc-errors..) But C386 is non-ANSI. Now are we a) Giving it an ANSI front end ? (any gurus out there?) b) put an #ifdef _STDC_ in all includes c) Forget about the 2Meg-machines (NO, PLEASE NOT:-() What do you thinnk about it ? Robert Blum

Yeah, it'll be implemented. Hopefully not even by me :-), as darken-christian showed some interest. I'll do it if nobody else does, but it will take some time. Currently you can always use "tar" and "rm -rf" to move a directory (but look out for a full filesystem). There are quite a few problems with rename, most of which have been mentioned here (and that's why I left rename unimplemented :-). I wouldn't say checking the filename is a good idea: it breaks when linux gets symbolic links. I ...

Hi all, Yes, Linus, I did format the disks under dos. In fact I made a bootable and could not corrupt it with any kind of write action. Also tried 360k and 1.44 meg disks. -- Patrick L. McGillan Computer Systems Specialist University Of Wisconsin Ph: (715) 394-8191 Superior, Wisconsin pmcgilla@uwsuper.edu

In reply to your discussion about keeping track of parent directories in the kernel; the answer is: DON'T. The filesystem should work like this: Directories may be lin-- ked and unlinked by the superuser only. The filesystem code in the kernel should not check the correctness of these opera-- tions, except for the root priviledge. The superuser is suppo-- sed to know what (s)he is doing. The file "." is a link to the directory in which it resides, and ".." is a link to the parent ...

Ok, here's one possibility: mount the /linux/ root-floppy from the minix-demo, and use the devices on that. mount /dev/fd0 /dir mkfs /dir/dev/hd6 partition-size-in-K ^___ 6 or 7 (minix numbering) This should work. (I hope). You should still check which partition is which (unless you don't care). Linus

There is a big difference between floppy the device numbers on linux and on minix. In particular linux has fd0 as 0x208 while minix uses 0x200. ie. linux /dev/fd0 == minix /dev/fd0-dshd5in The following patch will keep linux from using 0x200, which it doesn't know about and instead use 0x208 and 0x21c. Apply this after all other patches. pmacdona@sol.uvic.ca *** shoe.c.bad Thu Nov 7 08:43:30 1991 --- shoe.c Thu Nov 7 08:52:27 1991 *************** *** 638,646 **** longjmp(...

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1991 18:09:31 +0200 From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi> darken.@cs.yale.edu: > 1) mv doesn't seem to move directories properly. It looks for > something called mvdir and dies. I want to fix this right away, > so I'm goin to start working on it unless one of you drops me a > line and explains what stupid thing I've done. This is a possibly deficiency in the linux kernel. I don't allow links/unlinks to directori...