From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) Subject: Re: what about uucp working again??? Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:55:38 GMT
root@umibox.hanse.de writes:
: After upgrading to pl6, I know have developed kind fo skill in rebooting -
: every time I want to use uucp (and this is my newsfeed, so once or twice per
: day) it's going back to pl3, uucp'ing, and back to pl6.
: This is somehow annoying, and I thought it was some dumb mistake I made
: until I recently read that already pl5 broke the uucp stuff.
pl6 breaks it too.
: Even worse, I have by mistake deleted my mailpak, and such am not easily
: able to recompile. I could of course pick it up again, but would be somehow
: disappointed to see that the new binaries would still coredump.
Not good. Having the source code helps, but....
: Now, is there a working uucp (+stuff) out there somewhere? Does recompiling
: help?....
For me, so far, even with the ever-so-highly-recommended "-fwritable-strings"
flag as part of the CFLAGS in the Makefile, the answer is a very resounding
"NO". I've been testing the holy hell out of the uucico code with gdb and
have found that it barfs on the sigaction() call in the usset_signal() fun-
ction in sys1.c (hardlinked to sys1.unx). At least I've gotten that far,
but I don't know enough about the innards of the system (though I do have
source code for same innards) or have any other source code which makes
use of the sigaction() (that I know of) to rip apart and analyze.
Hope this helps anyone who's been hacking away at UUCP.
BTW, I still have _MY_ mailpak.. Shame on you for zapping your copy! :-)
-- Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP