Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: ftp->mtools->d2d->Zoo->corrupt files Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 00:47:53 GMT References: <6057@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <6060@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Lines: 41 >In article <6060@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) writes: > >I recently built MTOOLS on the Sun Sparc Station 1, using the Sun supplied ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >compiler, in OS version 4.1.0. The only problem I had compiling was in the ~~~~~~~~ Urk. Did you try with the "optimizor" off? I've found it to be flaky. Also, you might look into the SunOS 4.1.1 upgrade, or GCC, if there is a Sparc version. >function formatit(), in file mkdfs.c, but the problem was in error reporting >only (Something had changed in the wait(2) function and/or it's data >structures.) and I just commented it out. Below is the commented out code. > >#if 0 > if ( WIFSIGNALED(w) ) { > fprintf(stderr,"%s: ",progname) ; > psignal(w.w_termsig,"/bin/fdformat") ; > if (w.w_coredump) > fprintf(stderr,"Core dumped\n") ; > exit(1) ; > } > > assert( WIFEXITED(w) ) ; /* If not signalled, must be exited > we are not tracing stopped processes */ >#endif > >Any other suggestions? > >-- >John R Veregge Section 348 - Flight Command and Data >Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management (Technology Development) >Calif Institute of Technology Mail stop: T1704, Office: T1704-P >4800 Oak Grove Drive Phone: (818) 354-0511, FAX: 393-4494 >Pasadena, CA, USA 91109 john@triton.jpl.nasa.gov -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |