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Re: Re: New user
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: Re: New user |
Date: |
Thu, 22 May 2003 15:29:55 +0200 |
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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:06:40AM +0200, M. Gerards wrote:
> * A PPP interface. This will require some restructuring of pfinet.
>
> I have no idea what has been done and what needs to be done. AFAIK Neal
> worked
> on this and that makes me think this task needs to be updated.
I guess that item is obsolete and needs to be replaced with an item:
* A new pfinet server
:)
> * A notepad program to hold and keep track of ports for shell scripts.
>
> I have no idea what to think about this.
Neal wrote one and then his laptop was stolen. It is basically a way to call
RPCs in shell scripts.
> * Handy shell programs to send msgport msgs, and change default init
> ports and ints.
>
> What is this?
msgport msgs are a cool feature implemented in the signal handler of every
thread. See "msgport" program. Not sure if more is meant than msgport
itself.
> *** Deal correctly with setting the translators on /servers/exec.
>
> What is correctly and what is this about?
Theoreticalyl you can replace the exec server that way, I think. There were
some mails from Rolanda bout it in 1998 or so.
> *** Maybe file_pager_write_page should be able to accurately reproduce holes
>
> Sounds like a block of 0's shouldn't be written as a block, but as a sparse
> file instead.
Right.
> There are many more examples that make me wonder what it is _exactly_ about.
> Many people have a look at this list and just give up... unfortunately.
>
> I wonder how others think about this and had the same problems
Well, of course it is a problem.
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Re: New user, (continued)
- Re: New user, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2003/05/21
- Re: New user, Marcus Brinkmann, 2003/05/21
- Re: Re: New user, bddebian, 2003/05/21
- Re: New user, Robert Seger, 2003/05/21
- Re: Re: New user, Marcus Brinkmann, 2003/05/21
- Re: Re: New user, Robert Millan, 2003/05/21
- Re: New user, James Morrison, 2003/05/21
- Re: Re: New user, M. Gerards, 2003/05/22
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