kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) (03/28/89)
namei() doesn't work! It's BROKEN!!
gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) (03/28/89)
In article <8214@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes: > > namei() doesn't work! > > It's BROKEN!! Fascinating. How about mentioning operating system, architecture, etc. of the machine you've encountered this on? How about a (just a tiny little bit) more descriptive note? -- Juergen Wagner gandalf@csli.stanford.edu wagner@arisia.xerox.com
guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (03/29/89)
> namei() doesn't work! > > It's BROKEN!! That's a pretty amazing statement, given the number of V7/S3/S5/4.xBSD systems out there that seem to look up many hundreds, thousands, or more files a day with few, if any problems. Would you care to amplify that statement, so that we know precisely *what* you think "doesn't work"?
bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (03/30/89)
> namei() doesn't work! > > It's BROKEN!! What I'm trying to understand is, if it's true, how the guy posted the message or how any of us are reading or replying to it. -- -Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than satisfied customers.
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (03/30/89)
In article <29045@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > What I'm trying to understand is, if it's true, how the guy posted the > [namei() doesn't work!, It's BROKEN!!] message or how any of us are > reading or replying to it. Oh come on Barry, there you go showing your narrow-minded view of the universe again :-). There *are* systems capable of posting news articles that don't have namei() in them. Maybe he used a VMS system? -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"
bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (03/30/89)
> Oh come on Barry, there you go showing your narrow-minded view of >the universe again :-). There *are* systems capable of posting news >articles that don't have namei() in them. Maybe he used a VMS system? >-- >Roy Smith, System Administrator Tell ya what, we'll shut off all the Unix systems on the USENET and he can try posting it again... >"The connector is the network" Indeed. -- -Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than satisfied customers.
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (03/31/89)
I hate to sound stupid when I'm just ignorant, but what is namei()? Neither our Ultrix nor SunOs systems have a manual entry for it. _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory We don't need no stinking signatures!
ken@inxt.uucp (Kenneth E. Stailey) (04/02/89)
In article <2303@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes: >I hate to sound stupid when I'm just ignorant, but >what is namei()? namei is a kernel routine that turns a pathname into an inode number