Re: busybox under the Hurd
> That does interest me for a few reasons, busybox itself doesnt have a
> small fdisk program so it also needs one, it used to use sfdisk but
> aparently that has problems.
>
> Recently i have looked at libfdisk, it looks to be well written, and it
> might be used by the next debian installer as well. I have no idea how
> it goes under the Hurd, but in a previous email Marcus said he had also
> looked it, so maybe it is the way to go.
>
> The trouble with programming open source is that there are so many
> worthy projects...
>
If it is anything like the cfdisk source, you may as well start over.
The hurd interface will by radically different. I say will as the lack
of an interface is the reason that there is no fdisk (well, that is to say,
one of several).
Either way, do not make that your first project or you will IMHO be quickly
discouraged.
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu
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