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Re: Porting scsh to GNU/Hurd

To: scsh-news@zurich.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Porting scsh to GNU/Hurd
From: Andreas Voegele <voegelas@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:29:31 +0200
Martin Gasbichler writes:

> Andreas Voegele <voegelas@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Functions like s48_raise_os_error() try to store errno values in
>> fixnums.  Unfortunately, the errno values returned by Mach are too
>> big for fixnums.
>
> Ups. I'll fix this in the CVS HEAD and tell you when I'm done.

I don't know if only s48_raise_os_error() & Co. are affected or if
changes in other parts of the code are necessary.  I'll look through
the code at the weekend.

Furthermore, GNU Mach may be a dead end.  Several Hurd developers are
working on a port to the L4 kernel.  Currently I have to use the
following code because of Mach.

(define (hurd-errno n)
  (bitwise-ior (arithmetic-shift #x10 26) (bitwise-and n #x3fff)))

(define errno/perm (hurd-errno 1))
(define errno/noent (hurd-errno 2))
...

I'll try to find out what kind of errno values L4 uses and how this
will affect the Hurd.

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