From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190601191428k8329b69ibe96d9ebebeaffec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:28:14 +1100 From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43CFD24B.5010007@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e085788e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i like it when chip companies ask "why would you want to do that" and the obvious answer is "because the data sheet says i can and i want to". i've been thru this with a few vendors. brucee On 1/20/06, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >>when is a .so not a .so? when it's a ld script of course! > >>yup, /lib/libc.so on my fc4 box is a ..... script. > > curiously, i was just installing fc4 on a machine today. > following an i/o error on a few blocks of a hard drive containing an ext3= , > that had emptied /usr/etc to the confusion of all, subsequent use of > redhat-something's fsck destroyed the whole file system rather instantly, > so i thought it might be time for an upgrade. > fc4's installation said there was an i/o error on installation, > that was ``a serious problem'', it could not continue, OK? > as usual my ``that's not OK, actually'' met with a blank face, > and OK rebooted the system. i think it's all a hint to replace the drive= . > clearly, from ron's message, i'm in for a good time! > we'll know computing has cracked it when that sort of thing > is a question on ``who wants to be a millionaire?''. > all helps to keep those synapses active. > >