AREA:COMP.OS.LINUX From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Organization: Swansea University College In article <1oqlf5$i8b@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs ... a big filesystems and fast disks it visibly outperformed the Linux file system. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Mar 25 1993 - 12:36

... Christopher Seeley) writes: >In article <1993Aug2.170725.3660@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >> >>stricmp -> strcasecmp >>strnicmp -> strncasecmp >> >>Any chance of having these in the proper C library ...

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Aug 3 1993 - 05:19

... logins like bsd telnetd instead you need to have them sitting on pty's read - just add /dev/ttyp0 /dev/ttyp1 and /dev/ttyp2 to your /etc/inittab Alan Packet=[GW4PTS@GB7AKJ] Ampr=gw4pts@ozymandias.gw4pts.ampr.org Internet=iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Jul 17 1992 - 10:43

Linux already supports a single user boot mode. You stick the right statements EARLY into the rc file. Similarly linux runs beautifully without a monitor when you make tty1 a link to ttys1 (this ought to be documented somewhere really). Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Aug 4 1992 - 11:56

... ), the 33Mhz 386 however locks up solid. Interestingly enough a ctrl-alt-del from windows 3 has the same effect. I'm beginning to think its a chipset problem - unless you all happen to have a WD8013EB card in the machines which lock up ? Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Aug 4 1992 - 11:58

... stuff I have. Does such a > > RB> beast exist? Thanks. > I've got a who I wrote ages ago its only short. I'll try and post it on monday if I remember. I've also got a passable port of bsd finger (without the tcp/ip bits and lastlogin). Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Aug 7 1992 - 05:20

... discards it X returns to text mode X does ioctl to switch to VC 2 maybe sending SIGWINCH VC 2 wakes up sees SIGWINCH and being MGR goes graphic mode reloads the MGR display and carries on... A lot less kernel code than the alternative. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Sep 17 1992 - 05:31

... definitely DONT have a bus mouse port but it insists I have one. Secondly: I lost the mail address of the person who sent me the test trident libvga - can he mail me again some time, as I've tried all his test stuff and it doesn't work. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Sep 22 1992 - 08:15

... KA9Q version I released. DONT upgrade to 0.99.2 without the serial patches I included and DONT upgrade to 0.99.3 or .4. I'll try and merge the serial fixes into the 0.99.4 kernel and resubmit them again. Alan .

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Jan 28 1993 - 12:54

... serial ports only did 2400 I gave it up. Having said that I still want some poor fool^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrave volunteer to port the BSD FFS to Linux, because on a big filesystems and fast disks it visibly outperformed the Linux file system. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Mar 25 1993 - 13:36

... and before you do the accept the connection vanishes. Set the socket nonblocking before the accept and back to blocking just afterwards. In addition you may need to check the SIGCLD handling if you get 'Transport endpoint not connected'. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 2 1993 - 05:42

... be viewed as a bug. I tried using fstat() for named pipe work a long time ago and discovered it really depends on what Unix variant you use whether it works or not. When I tried it, it worked on Sys5.2 and Sys5.3 but not on Ultrix (suprise). Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 6 1993 - 05:28

... It's all a matter of what you use it for. The killer with linux is the applications - notably some of the Gnu stuff and X. If someone ported something like bcc386 from minix I'd expect a 1Mb machine wouldn't be too bad for compiling either. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 15 1993 - 08:45

... get worse than ISA, but an ISA card in an EISA machine is as much a slowdown and problem as an ISA card in an ISA machine. Unless you have a lot of heavy traffic to ISA cards forget it, even if you do its not that desperate a problem. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 15 1993 - 08:51

... d think a cron job to do a halt at 30 minutes before the timeswitch would be fine. Also remember that even if the uucp overruns under Linux the halt by cron will occur happily mid phone call.(I do hope your modem drops when that happens 8-)) Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 15 1993 - 14:39

... may be - depending on the library. If you ship the program as a single ready to link module then that is fine - effectively people can relink it against their shared library set - which is good anyway Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 21 1993 - 12:57

... then then world would be a happy place indeed. As it is its down to software choice. GCC isnt the most computer friendly compiler on planet earth. Once the socket stuff is fixed properly the daily reboot should become unneccessary too. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 28 1993 - 04:37

... amateur radio router under WAMPES, public access via amateur radio and X 24hrs a day 7 days a week. The last actual crash I had was january, since then its only been intended reboots for kernel upgrading. Thats a machine doing real work. Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 28 1993 - 05:17

... com1, com2 ports. Now are you going to make the system spot that I have an async 4 and therefore rename my identical ports to a different name to someone elses com1 com2. Are you trying to ensure no ex DOS newbie can understand Linux ?? Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - Apr 29 1993 - 06:00

Yes its getting too large Yes everyone knows it is getting too large Yes we told everyone it would happen No they didn't listen No you can't change it until about June This is becoming number1 FAQ... 8-) Alan

linux-activists - Alan Cox - May 4 1993 - 07:21