5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
3:42 a.m.
I have a minor NextStep 3.3 problem...
on an otherwise perfectly working system, the command /usr/etc/
dmesg returns
# dmesg
Apr 4 19:32
Can't get kernel namelist
which seems to imply to me, that I have some permission hosed
someplace, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
In / I have
mach -> $BOOTFILE ( but I don't know what
$BOOTFILE is supposed to be ! )
odmach is permission 444
sdmach is permission 444 ( and same size as odmach... 836616 bytes )
I tried changing permissions on /dev/kmem... no effect.... right now
it's crw-r-----
Any Next folks have any ideas ?? Does dmesg work on your machine ??
thanks
Mike
5 Apr
5 Apr
8:59 a.m.
On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:42 PM, mike ingram wrote:
on an otherwise perfectly working system, the command
/usr/etc/
dmesg returns
# dmesg
Apr 4 19:32
Can't get kernel namelist
It doesn't work. There are tiny pieces of SVR4 and some number of
pieces of POSIX in NEXTSTEP but neither are especially complete, and
you shouldn't expect those interfaces to work even though sometimes
some of it does work "enough". OPENSTEP 4 is noticeably more complete
in this regard, but still pretty thin on the ground by modern
standards (it was thin on the ground by most people's standards even
when OPENSTEP was current).
There is, for example, enough of utsname to write your own 'uname'. I
had to do this once for some braindead autoconf script.
Generally, though, forget it.
ok
bear
6:53 p.m.
r.stricklin wrote:
I wonder if there's enough support under NeXTstep to get GNU Coreutils
compiled. Hmm.
Peace... Sridhar
on an
otherwise perfectly working system, the command
/usr/etc/dmesg returns
# dmesg
Apr 4 19:32
Can't get kernel namelist
It doesn't work. There are tiny pieces of SVR4 and some number of pieces
of POSIX in NEXTSTEP but neither are especially complete, and you
shouldn't expect those interfaces to work even though sometimes some of
it does work "enough". OPENSTEP 4 is noticeably more complete in this
regard, but still pretty thin on the ground by modern standards (it was
thin on the ground by most people's standards even when OPENSTEP was
current).
There is, for example, enough of utsname to write your own 'uname'. I
had to do this once for some braindead autoconf script.
Generally, though, forget it.
6255
days inactive
6255
days old
2 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
bear＠typewritten.org -
ingrammp＠earthlink.net -
ploopster＠gmail.com