geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) (03/28/90)
Well I finally got a day of hands on use of one of the new 6000 series boxes from IBM. We are waiting delivery of our own 320 at present so I went over to the local IBM offices and used one of their machines for day. My first impression was that porting software to this box is not going to be a case of running make. It would appear that the includes have been greatly changed and figuring out the right combinations of #define will take some time. The following are my questions after one day of use of the box: 1) How do you reconfigure the kernel ????? - in particular I need to raise ulimit - I looked for all the normal commands like mkunix and none appeared to be present as well I looked through the info pages and smit and could find nothing appropriate. 2) What is special about the /dev/ directory that running ls /dev would appear to invoke a number of processes????? 3) How does the bidirectional getty handle locking ??? - this is in reference to getting kermit working on bidirectional ports. 4) Are there any standard compiler flags for compiling code moved from a standard SYS V environment ? Thanks for any input Geoff Coleman Unexsys Systems gcoleman@edm.uucp or ....!alberta!edm!geoff p.s. if you e-mail responses I'll send out a summary.
mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown) (03/28/90)
In article <1990Mar28.062220.19948@edm.uucp>, geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) writes: > My first impression was that porting software to this box is > not going to be a case of running make. It would appear that the includes > have been greatly changed and figuring out the right combinations of > #define will take some time. The following are my questions after one The changes were made courtesy of your local ANSI, POSIX, and X/OPEN standards committees... > [three other questions] Sorry, I'm o sabbatical to OSF right now, and don't have all my manuals with me....[blush] > 4) Are there any standard compiler flags for compiling > code moved from a standard SYS V environment ? SysV code should compile "straight out of the box". If you are running into "ANSI C"-type problems, add -D_NO_PROTO (no function prototyping) and -D_ALL_SOURCE (superset to 'standards' namespace - this should be a default, but the default may have been changed recently). Mark Brown IBM AWD / OSF | The effort of using machines to mimic the The Good mbrown@osf.org | human mind has always struck me as rather silly. The Bad uunet!osf!mbrown| I would rather use them to mimic something The Ugly (617) 621-8981 | better. --Edsger Dijkstra
jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) (03/29/90)
In article <1990Mar28.062220.19948@edm.uucp> geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) writes: > 1) How do you reconfigure the kernel ????? > - in particular I need to raise ulimit The login ulimit is contained in /etc/security/user in the "fsize" attribute. The command "chuser fsize=1000000 username" should raise the ulimit for "username". Editing the file by hand and changing the value in the "default" stanza will change it for everyone. -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org