Re: Broken libdb2?
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Mark has more info on this. It is that dbopen() doesn't translate the access
> modes O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR etc not properly to the glibc open() call.
> (The Hurd numbers are different from the Linux numbers). He will solve this
> in glibc, AFAIK
Yeah, this is the correct solution, IMO.
> maybe you want to apply the same changes to the standalone db packages?
> You're certainly welcome.
What do mean is the problem in the db packages? AFAIK the dbopen() is a
glibc call, and should be fixed in glibc.. but I could be wrong.
> > The package was damaged. It wouldn't even unpack. (I tried both with dpkg
> > and 'ar x')
> That's a sign that you d/l in binary mode (or I uploaded in binary mode :)
Actually, I don't think so.. the rest of the CD was okay. (Yes, I burned a
Hurd CD. :)
> Not really. mandb wouldn't work, but the "man" command would still display
> man pages properly.
That could always do as a start.
Another thing I think should be done is make a Grub installer for Hurd.
Right now, it's _far_ too difficult to get the Grub on your disk. I think
there is an installer that doesn't really work yet; is that so? I would
more than gladly help on this. After that we could almost start doing boot
floppies..
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