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From: jrc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (John Colton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Idea for a useful manual for linux
Date: 24 Nov 92 00:18:36 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I'm willing to take a chunk of the editing of such a manual.  I cannot
commit to WRITING a section.  But, I would like to edit a section for
consistency and create the table of contents and index.

Let me know.

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| John Colton  |  jrc1@lehigh.edu  |  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA  USA  |
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Motif
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:00:55 GMT

chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce) writes:

>jrc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (John Colton) writes:

>>Anyone know where I can find Motif for Linux?
>>I'd much rather use MWM than TWM!!

>There is none.  Motif is a commercial product......unfortunately.  Try
>OpenWindows's olvwm/olwm.  It's got a nice 3D look and all, you might like
>it.

I agree, I use olvwm as well...

But, if you're dead set on Motif, you can get gwm
which has a Motif emulator...
(looks okay, but i prefer olvwm...)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
			cos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"Language is a virus from outer space" - William S. Burroughs
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Installing SLS...How???
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:43:02 +0000

In article <722153791snx@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk> chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne) writes:
> 
> 3. Since a2.z is 1.1Mb there is no point uncompressing it since it won't go
>    on a floppy. I rawrite the file a2.z to a floppy and assume this is the
>    'utilities' disk. When I tell the install program that I have inserted it
>    it bombs out with...
> 
>    "MINIX-fs magic match failed"
>    "mount: /dev/fd0h1200 already mounted or /user busy"
>    
>    Then I get a few more messages and a # prompt. I can't do anything at the
>    prompt since there are no executables available. End of story.
> 
> O.K. So why do I get this? Where are the _REAL_ instructions?
> 

You *do* need to uncompress the a2.Z file.  I used comp16.exe with the -d switch under DOS
to do this.  You then rawrite the a2 file to the floppy - it doesn't actually get that much
bigger when it's uncompressed, strangely enough.  I *have* tried this, BTW, and it works.
The a2 disk is the root filesystem.

Cheers,

- Alan.

+---------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
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| agc@cix.compulink.co.uk         | that sweet-talk, like candy, rots teeth... |
| agc@weasel.demon.co.uk          |                                            |
| Tel:  +44 454 202706 (after 6)  | ---   Prefab Sprout - "Hallelujah"         |
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From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mouse on HP 486/33T?
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:54:30 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <1992Nov14.014950.1627@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> grant@hpmcaa (Grant Garner) writes:

>Has anyone gotten the "Mini-DIN" mouse on an HP Vectra 486/33T to work?

>The slight info I've been able to find says it's PS/2 compatible, but
>I sure can't seem to get it going.

First you need to create an entry in /dev for it:

mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1

There is no direct PS/2 mouse support in XFree86 yet, so to use the
mouse with X you'll have to use the mconv mouse protocol conversion
utility, which can be found on nic.funet.fi, in
/pub/OS/Linux/utils/tools/mconv.c. This program converts the packets
sent by the PS/2 mouse into the corresponding ones from a Microsoft
mouse, so you can fool X telling it you have a Microsoft serial
mouse instead. Instructions for use are included in the source file.

I've been putting pressure (very slight so far :-) on the XFree86
development team to get direct PS/2 mouse support into X. Let's hope
it makes it into the next release, so we won't need the mconv hack
anymore.

--
Johan Myreen
jem@cs.hut.fi
From: drose@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: UTMP updating & uugetty
Keywords: pl5 uugetty
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:08:35 GMT
Organization: The Draco Unix System

Hello,

	I have upgraded to pl5, and had problems with uugetty. So I grabbed
the patch posted to c.o.l, and everything worked again except for the 
utmp updating.  When the system is booted up for the first time things are
great, but if someone logs in, then logs out they don't disapear from
the 'w' listing. UUgetty still continues to operate fine, but I'd like to
know if anyone has fixed this yet.
From: rogerl@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Roger Lundberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Need help with SLS-package
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:12:11 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
NNTP-Posting-Host: minsk.docs.uu.se
Summary: I have recently installed SLS but are having problems with menu
Keywords: menu, SLS, vi

Hi 
I have recently installed the full base system (not X11) on an 486. Linux have
35 Mb and 4Mb swap on the hd. It installed all fine and well, but now I'm 
having some problems.

1) It seems that I can't add users using the "adduser" in "menu". Is it broken
or what ? First of all if doesn't give me choices for uid or gid and then it 
doen't create the home directory specified (BTW isn't it kind of stupid having
/usr/users/username as default when /usr/users doesn't even exist ?) How do I
chnge these things ? (I've looked for the source but I didn't find it). All in
all adduser is quite useless for me. (Yes I do know how to add users by hand
, but it is tedious (sp?) :-)

2) How do  change the default editor in 
	i) Elm (yes I know that you can change it in options, I want to know 
	how to make joe or emacs the default editor for every user who chooses 
	to use elm) ?
now it's vi which I , for one , don't understand the least.

3) Where are the info files for emacs ? the only ones I got are UUCP.

4) What's the e-mail adress to Peter Macdonald ? (Inquering minds wants to know
   :-)

I have read the FAQ, INFO and the last months News but nowhere did  find 
answers to these questions (I found answers to many other questions though:-)

	Roger :-)
--
Roger Lundberg
E-Mail: rogerl@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE
Tel.: +46 18 460346
Mail: Sernanders v. 8-512 , S-75261 Uppsala , Sweden


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Roger Lundberg
E-Mail: rogerl@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE
Tel.: +46 18 460346
Mail: Sernanders v. 8-512 , S-75261 Uppsala , Sweden
From: ail8070@tamsun.tamu.edu (Andy I. Liaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: coming back to linux, from os/2
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:51:39 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu


Hello, all!

I had installed linux 0.95a on my 386 with 60mb dos and 65mb linux before, but
switched to os2 two months later 'cause 130mb is much too crowded for three OS.

Now I've got a 486-50dx2 with a maxtor 213mb HD and 16mb of RAM (with another
maxtor 213mb HD coming in two days), I'd like to get linux back on my system.

PLAN: now have dos on 110mb C:, os/2 hpfs 93mb D:, and bootmanager.  when the
      other drive comes, will have 90mb FAT shared by os2 and dos, and the
      rest for linux and X.

QUESTION: can someone give me a step-by-step instruction on how this can be
      done?  I think I read someone's post saying that it still needs shoe-
      lace with boot manager, but I thought boot-mgr is supposed to do shoe-lace
      s job.  Someone said that lilo is better than boot-mgr, but will it
      be able to handle three OS? (dos, os2, and linux)

ANOTHER QUESTION: what's the story with X running on trident 8900c?  will it work?

any/all suggestions will be appreciated.

system: 486-50dx2, 16mb ram, 2 maxtor 7213a HD, trident 8900c svga card.

andy liaw
aliaw@stat.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: benchmarks/performance on Linux systems
From: franco@deis20.cineca.it (Franco Venturi)
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:01:22 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Keywords: benchmarks performance

Since I'm thinking to run Linux as the OS for a machine that would run heavy
numerical code (both floating point and integer stuff), i'd like to know
what are the performance that a 486 would have on some benchmarks (e.g.
whetstones, linpacks, and/or SPECmarks). Also I'd like any sugestion peculiar
to Linux to improve such performances.
Thanks,
Franco Venturi
Dept. of Electronics
Bologna, Italy


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro)
Subject: linux activists mailing lists...
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 12:39:32 GMT


Is something screwey with the linux-activists-request mailing list system?
I have joined the scsi and 680x0 channels, and so far have got about 2 scsi
messages and nothing else. Also a request for X-Mn-Info: user davem produces:

[..]
Subject: Your request for user
Message-Id: <92Nov19.224849eet.61510-2@niksula.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:48:42 +0900
Status: OR


SCSI >	David Monro <davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>

680X0 >	David Monro <davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>

680X0 >	David Monro <davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>


===End of Listing===

but sending mail with help in the the body gets me this:

[..]
Subject: Your request to linux-activists-request
Message-Id: <92Nov21.093446eet.62006-1@niksula.hut.fi>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:34:35 +0200
Status: OR


If you got this message, you have not joined in any channels.

[..]

So what's going on? Is the scsi traffic really less than one item a day,
and the 680x0 channel not one in four days? Why do a get the message
saying I haven't joined?

David Monro
-- 
David Monro
e-mail: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
-- 
David Monro
e-mail: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
Keywords: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:25:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: uqcspe.11049
Reply-To: king@cs.uq.oz.au

In <wies.721382437@NewsServ> wies@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rene Felix Wies) writes:

>(I am trying to use transfig, tex and xfig. In order to leave enought space in
>a TeX file, I need to know the size of a postscript picture. To avoid 
>calculating the dimentions by hand, I would like to use fig2ps2tex, which in
>return uses "dc" - which I don't have!)

If you use encapsulated postscript output from xfig and use the
epsf macros for TeX (not sure where to get these) then you don't need
to calculate the bounding box manually, TeX does it for you.

Cheers, Paul.
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Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Queensland			      /     X
Queensland, Australia, 4072					      \.--._/
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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drives with linux?
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:01:30 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

In article <1992Nov19.141216@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be> stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Lode Vande Sande) writes:
>Ok I have an old SLS about 0.96 etc ... I tried it on my Syquest 88Mb / 1542B
>Adaptec ... Ok booting up and trying FDISK ... but he tells me he "Can't
>access partition table"...

	Use a newer kernel.  A 0.96 kernel has a lot of scsi bugs in it, and it
will not handle removable scsi very will at all.  The newest SLS has 0.98pl5,
and with this you should be able to use the removable disk without any trouble.

-Eric

-- 
Eric Youngdale
From: grundy@rtf.bt.co.uk (Martin Grundy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Meaning of "gets unreliable" message?
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:38:22 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

I am running linux-0.98.1 which I down-loaded from hlu's GCC distribution
from tsx-11-mirror on doc.ic.ac.uk, and it all appears to run very well.
(Many thanks Linus et al.!).

However, when I try to compile (gcc 2.2.2d and lib4.1) a program that
uses the gets() function, I get a warning message from the linker (I think)
that says:

	"the `gets' function is unreliable and should not be used"

Despite this message, the programs so far have worked ok.

I haven't seen any other threads on c.o.l about this (yet), and am
wondering if:

	a) the message means what it says, and it will be fixed in lib4.2
or if   b) the message is spurious?
-- 
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British Telecom Customer Systems  |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10
Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:06:25 GMT


	The new release (alpha 10) of the extended file system programs (efsck
and mkefs) is available for anonymous ftp from ftp-masi.ibp.fr [132.227.64.26]
in the directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.  It should be available soon on
tsx-11.mit.edu [18.172.1.2] in the directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.

	This version is available as :
	- efsprogs10.tar.Z : source and binary programs,
	- efsprogs10.src.tar.Z : source only programs,
	- efsprogs10.bin.tar.Z : binary only programs,
	- efsprogs.p10.Z : patch to upgrade from version alpha 9.

	Changes from the previous version are :
	- two man pages (efsck.8 and mkefs.8) are now included,
	- the Makefile supports an install target ('make install' copies
	  efsck and mkefs to /bin and efsck.8 and mkefs.8 to /usr/man/man8),
	- efsck should now be able to REALLY correct bad directory entries
	  (the correction code in version alpha 9 was not enough),
	- efsck now checks links to directories and detects cycles in a
	  directory tree,
	- efsck now checks each inode mode.

	The changes to efsck should allow people with bad directories to
recover them.  Note that these changes have not been really tested because
I didn't succeeded in reproducing the problem on my own machine.  So, please
use this new version with caution (i.e. first run efsck without the -r or -a
option to know if it will try to fix something).

	During my work on efsck, I have also checked the ext fs code and I
think that I have found a bug in the directory handling routines.  This bug may
be the cause of the bad directory entries.  The patch (relative to linux
0.98 pl 5) is available for anonymous ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr in the file
pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.p6.Z.  Note that this patch will surely be included in
the next linux release.

	Of course, feel free to contact me if you experiment problems with
this new release or with the ext fs patch.

	Remy
--

	Remy Card
	card@masi.ibp.fr
From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: WHERE IS THIS (dammed :-) FAQ ???
Keywords: FAQ
Date: 21 Nov 92 16:28:22 GMT
Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Organization: Do they make a washing powder called Caliban Automatic?

Like all FAQ lists, it's in pit-manager.mit.edu:pub/usenet/news.answers.

Look there before posting to a group saying ``where's the FAQ?''.

What *really* racks me off are people who post a question starting with
``This is probably an FAQ, but...'' If you think it's an FAQ, what's
your excuse for not looking for the FAQ list?
_____                                __  
\\ // Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk /o \/
 \X/  "I'm the boy without a sole"  \__/\
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: df can't find mountpoint for . when in root fs (Re: Root filesystem acting strangely)
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:08:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: muddcs.1992Nov15.210857.3750
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR

In article <of1QLpO00WB_QLsVx2@andrew.cmu.edu> fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro) writes:
>    Sounds like the entry for / isn't in /etc/mtab like it should be.
>rdev > /etc/mtab is a good idea for your /etc/rc before the /etc/mount -a.
>I hope this helps.

A better idea is this:  rm /etc/mtab in /etc/rc, and mount -a will
automatically add the entry for the root partition *if* it is
specified in your /etc/fstab.  Works beautifully for me.

-- 
loveritablessencentipedependentalism+      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
andaterrificklengtherealityearguessy|      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
mpathybridgenerationiceremonymphysic|   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Bill.Saunders@launchpad.unc.edu (Bill Saunders)
Subject: Visual directory tree script
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:34:51 GMT

Hello,
	Was reading a really old copy of UnixWorld last night and came
across this script for displaying a directory tree-
	(cd $1; pwd)
	find $1 -type d -print | sort -f |
	sed -e "s, ^$1,," -e "/^$/d" -e \
	"s,[^/]*/\([^/]*\)$,\'-----\1," -e "s,[^/]*/,  |     ,g"
This came from the Nov. 1990, UnixWorld Magazine page 164
to run it put these lines in a file, change the attributes(chmod +xxx
filename), and type filename <directory> | more.
						Bill Saunders
						bills@outlaw.uwyo.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Subject: 0.98.pl5, init, getty, login and deep despairation ...
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:04:44 +0100
Return-Path: <u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

Upgrading to 0.98.pl5 went fine, until I first booted the new kernel.
The result was wonderful, because init complained about all logins
respawning too fast.  The reason was a core-dumping getty-2.03.  So I
made entries for two shells in inittab and booted again.

After short debugging it was obvious that a quick hack in getty-2.03 was
the reason, it just never showed up.  I removed the #ifndef linux, did
telinit q and at least I got my logins back.  But now utmp entries
weren't removed when logging out.  So I went through the chain init,
getty and login.  Init makes utmp entries with id e.g. c4 for tty4.  So
far so good.  getty changed the id to 4, which it shouldn't do in my
opinion, otherwise there would be no reason for init to make id entries.
So I changed getty again.  Then I had the idea to "get a production
version now where it runs".  A bad idea, but I was able to do so after
adding a couple forgotten #ifdef DEBUGs.  Not to talk about the fact,
that of course SETTERM wasn't set and TTYTYPE was set to "x" -- a mess.

Then login didn't care about existing entries at all and I had duplicate
entries, one with c4 and one with 4.  ARGH! So I changed login to change
an existing entry if possible.  And, to be sure, I changed init for only
looking for the pid instead of id when it returns from wait(), because
as we know, processes may not care about the id and change it.

The moral of the story?  I don't know, can someone help me?  Are there
really so many bugs, or did I just totally misunderstand it?  I can't
believe that I have to send out cdiffs to three persons now ...  I only
wanted to get a new kernel which doesn't have that page bug.

Linus, keep up the good work.  Better to get the bad surprises with
applications now than later, and without a kernel which implements
readonly code pages now, I would never have found that wrong hack in
getty.  I wonder which other software will die next time ...

... to be continued ;-)

Michael "seeing more bugs than bytes"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Memory Just Ain't what it used to be (Was: Can I make ...)
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 01:40:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.092905.14093@black.ox.ac.uk> mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.124856.629@gdr.bath.ac.uk> maspab@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P A Broadbery) writes:
>>There is also a 'ramdisk' program which is a cool way of loading HJ's
>>{base,gcc,lib}disks without wasting a floppy (or uncompressing the
>>image). ramdisk in quotes 'cos it spends most its time swapped out...
>
>Aaargh. This reminds of a Sun seminar a month or two back when
>a couple of Sun engineers mentioned that one of the
>performance-increasing features of Solaris 2.0 was an ability
>to swap out to memory instead of disk... 
>Oh for the days when disk was disk and memory was memory (or core, rather...)
>On the other hand, I think I'll stick with Linux.

Okay,  I'm stupid.  I can see the point of a RAM disk during an Install
to run a root filesystem on temporarily while loading, BUT ... I see no
point for normal operation.  If the ramdisk is SWAPPED then I would
think you'd be better off just grabbing the data from the hard disk in
the first place, and skip ram disk.  I guess for testing an development
it's very useful, but as a general tool...  I mean if you have main
memory your program can just grab & manipulate it direct without the
xtra overhead of maintaining the disk emulation.

As far a "Swapping to Memory instead of disk".  This is REALLY dumb.  If
you had the memory in the first place YOU WOULDN't NEED to swap.

Am I missing something here?
-- 
Keith Smith          uunet!ksmith!keith            5719 Archer Rd.
Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10
Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:35:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.202419.24516@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>
>Is the efs ready to be called the "linux" file system?  I mean, used
>as the default on linux? (it has seemed pretty stable for some time
>now).

	In fact, I don't think that there is a default fs.  Linux understands
the minix file system and the extended file system and everybody can
choose the file system type to use.

>
>There was talk a while back about a new incompatible efs that would
>be faster (use bitmaps maybe)?  Is this true or just net.folklore?
>Has it already happened and I just blinked at the wrong moment?
>Right now my efs is noticeably slower than my linux root partition. 

	It's true.  However, I have not worked hard on it during
two months so I am late for the release (see my previous post
on the subject).

>
>Thanks and keep up the good work!
>
>- Ken


--

	Remy Card
	card@masi.ibp.fr
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: union wait
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:04:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov21.190451.20204
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <DJM.92Nov21130000@frob.eng.umd.edu>, djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
|> 
|>    |> What is the linux-ism for a "union wait"?  It would really be helpful
|>    |> to know for porting some software.
|> 
|>    Include <sys/wait.h>, You are home free. If your software ueses "union wait"
|>    directly, rather than wait macros, fix your software. That will make it
|>    more portable.
|> 
|> I think what he was asking was *how* to "fix your software" -- what's
|> the correspondence between the union wait elements and the POSIX wait
|> macros.  Unfortunately I don't have time to produce an equivalence
|> table right now -- maybe someone else does?

Grab GNU libc 1.05 and check wait stuff there. But I believe one or
two macros are wrong. Check Linux <sys/wait.h> for them.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux