bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) (04/30/91)
I recently tried to install Cnews on an IBM RS/6000. Everything seemed
to go smoothly (minor changes to libc/getdate.y and libc/datetok.c and
rna/defs.h required to get things by the compiler) however when I went
to test things with "make r" the relaynews test failed.
In particular, errlog contained:
./relaynews: error writing `/dev/null', probably the disk filled (Invalid argument)
Before I go hunting through the code, has anyone seen this before, or
does anyone have any advice? Has anyone got Cnews to run on a RS/6000
before, or am I looking at real work?
Thanks for any advice/suggestions/whatever.
Brian
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Brian Glendenning - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
bglenden@nrao.edu bglenden@nrao.bitnet (804) 296-0286flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) (04/30/91)
>to test things with "make r" the relaynews test failed. >In particular, errlog contained: >./relaynews: error writing `/dev/null', probably the disk filled (Invalid argument) This is harmless. relaynews tries to fsync() output files for reliability. The regression test uses /dev/null for batch files. AIX doesn't let you fsync() a file descriptor that isn't open to a real file (it returns -1 and EBADF). There's a comment in notebook/problems about this, referring to AIX/370. It looks like all versions of AIX will refuse to fsync() non-files. Mach (on the NeXTs) also has this problem. -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu
bglenden@polaris.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) (05/04/91)
By the way, do you know how to drop the block size, and bump up the number of inodes on a partition under AIX? Thanks. Brian