Re: Screen

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:30:40PM +0530, Kapil H. Paranjape wrote:
> The compilation went through cleanly (with some warnings about
> incomplete formats). The compiled binary just hangs there (presumably
> waiting to open a PTY).

No, it tries to close all open file descriptors, which are A LOT on the Hurd
(2^32 I think). You have to uncomment the loop in the related function.

Also, you need to update glibc. As this is quite a huge task, you may prefer
to wait for me updating the Debian package, which will happen in one of the
next days. Screen will follow as a binary package very soon after.

> If someone else is already working on getting screen working could
> they please inform me?

> P.S. Some of the things that I managed to build.
> 
> 	ssmtp (useful to get mail off the hurd to the mailhub)
> 	elvis (vi clone --- I left out the X support :-)

This is nice. try alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/xlib6g*deb and try with X
support, please.
 
> ftp://banyan.imsc.ernet.in/pub/mirror/local/
> 
>      Has these packages.

Did you modify the source at all? In this case the patches would be
interesting. (Context diff with diff -ur).

Thanks,
Marcus

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