Volker.Eggeling@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Volker Eggeling) (10/09/90)
Hallo, i 've some questions about the internal of the norton utilities for interactive *ix. - norton utilities (nu) need the STREAMS facilities. But who knows exactly for what..? - whow does the nu UnErase function work ? I've heard the unlink() is replaced. Is that right..? - are there any bugs known like access to not owned deleted files ? - it's true that only the different kinds of filesystems make the porting so difficult - when will the SCO, SUN and HP -Versions available ? More details are welcome. thx, Volker. -- --------------------------------------------------------- # Volker Eggeling, Oldenburg, West-Germany # # UUCP : ..unido!uniol!eggeling BITNET: 029520@DOLUNI1 # --------------------------------------------------------- # hmm.. no human here, sorry (unknown) # ---------------------------------------------------------
pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) (10/16/90)
I've been using Norton Utilites for about a month now. Most of the utilities seem to work well, and the screen display is great. Someone should write a direct memory mapped version of "curses" sometime.... it is obvious how much memory mapping of the screen helps NU. However, there is one caveat. Do not run Norton Unerase on a partition with news on it, even if the news files (ie any file with the name as simply a number) are immediately purged. A few mornings in a row I saw the system hanging on entry to vi or some other things. Even a simple 'rm file' would hang. Anyways, I did a 'ps -ale' and looked up the wait channel in a sorted by value nm of the kernel. Sure enough, things were hanging on a Norton added kernel variable (I forget the name right now). So I turned off the unerase feature on the partition news is on and things have been fine ever since. So the moral of the story is that Norton is potentially buggy under high unerase usage, especially where you have the potential of running out of inodes. --paul -- Paul Guthrie chinet!nsacray!paul or pdg@balr.com or attmail!balr!pdg