[Linux-abi-devel] Re: Progress and linux-abi (Cont'd)

[Robert W M. <RW...@sy...>]

On December 28, 2001 05:26, you wrote:
> The order should be (more or less)
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> So whan you "make modules" the compile.h should be there, created by
> "make bzImage"

Thanks to your help, I now realize that.  It happens to have been a few 
years since I have done any kernel compiling, back in my Slackware days.  
Certainly appreciate your help.

> If you create a file with inside just "quit":
> == file1
> quit.
> ==
> and execute
>
> time -p pro -p file1
>
> on rh6x and rh7x, do you get the same timings?

This RH7.2 system (with 2.4.16 kernel) is on a Thinkpad 600E, a 360MHZ 
pentium II.  From:
== file1
quit.
 ==

on this system, I get:
real 0.75
user 0.04
sys 0.20

How does this compare with yours?  Today I am a few thousand Km away from 
the RH6.2 system which is also running Progress V7.3C .  Tomorrow I may 
have access to that system.  When I do, I will send you the time result.

> If you, at the $ prompt, do
> echo something | file1 <enter>
> is file2 created with "something" in?

Yes.  
$ echo "hello world" | ./file1

$ less file2
hello world
file2 (END)

> We use v6.2, and 2/3 years ago, testing v.63 had a problem with "input
> through".

I have V6.3 (ISC port) of Full Progress.  Under iBCS2 it functioned well 
in all respects.  There were no issues other than, as I said, no support 
for TCP.  This was not an issue when we were using dumb terminals.  INPUT 
THROUGH worked OK.

Now we use "emulated" diskless X terminals ( www.ltsp.org ).

>
> Doing
>
> input through echo x | proshut dbname no-echo.
> repeat:
> 	stuff
> end.
> input close.
>
> would work in v62 and hang in v63, we had to add a "pause 1 no-message"
> just before "input close" to make it work in v.63 (I just tried
> everything until I found out that this would solve the problem).
>
> output through ... lpr .....
> stuff...
> pause 1 no-message
> output close.

output through ./file1.
put unformatted "Hello World".
pause 1 no-message.
output close.

This has no effect.  The procedure still hangs until ctrl-C and file2 is 
empty.  Before the ctrl-C, ps ax says:
23593 pts/3    S      0:00 bash
23652 pts/2    S      0:00 /bin/sh ./file1
23659 pts/2    S      0:00 cat -

Regards,
Robert

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