Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Binary file copy problems with 2.4 kernel

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:28:22PM +0000, Paul Sherwin wrote:
> I'm having lots of trouble copying some binary files from a Linux system
> using a 2.4.0 kernel. dncopy seems to hang for no obvious reason, and
> copying from the VMS end using 'fal ag' doesn't work either. The files copy
> without problems from another box running a patched 2.2.13 kernel.
> 
> Admittedly these files are pretty strange (in fact they're RMS indexed
> files complete with all the indexing stuff etc.) but they're just data when
> all's said and done.
> 
> As I'm obviously using an unpatched kernel, I built dnprogs using the dn.h
> that came with it ('make please'). I suspect this wasn't the right thing to
> do - any suggestions?

You should *never* use make please !

If you have an unpatched 2.4.0 kernel (though 2.4.2 would be better) linked into
your /usr/include directory then make please should not be necessary. If it is
then copy the dn.h file from $(KERNEL_SOURCE)/include/linux/dn.h into the
dnprogs include/netdnet directory and do it again.

The symptoms you have do sound like the tools are built using the wrong include
file.

patrick