Ros-dev November 2005

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Debian win32 port, file system, installer, ELF

by Drew Scott Daniels

Hi, For background in the Debian win32 port see the mailing list archives [1]. Basically, the only reason the port is allowed by Debian is that it could run on ReactOS or wine which are both DFSG [2] compliant. Microsoft Windows, OS/2... aren't DFSG compliant. I've read [3] that the Debian win32 ports "failed because most unix software made unforgivable presumptions about file system semantics; mainly that you could delete files that were in-use, and rename open files on top of other open files, etc." Is this something that could be resolved? I'd imagine the Installable File System (IFS) driver would need to be modified to remember open files, or perhaps something could intercept calls to an IFS driver? I think this is what some virus scanners do, and what clamav is missing. Porting Debian to ReactOS would give ReactOS a huge number of packages. The BSD ports collection method or gentoo's build systems may be useful too. All three would probably mean porting some base software though. Any comments about porting the base of another OS to ros? Packages like perl, bash, gcc, glibc seem to have native MS Windows ports. http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/ lists all the various packages in Debian's base (note some are specific to various ports, and there are some semi-duplicated packages). Another advantage of a Debian win32 port using ReactOS would be a really nice flexible, modular installer (debian-installer or d-i for short). I've had problems with the ros installer in the past, specifically I couldn't install on one system without a mouse. It also asked many questions, couldn't resize partitions... d-i is nice in that it can be used with about three prompts, has partition resizing, can download additional modules... I'd suggest checking it out (I feel like I'm starting to just advertise it). Fwiw, longhorn seems to boot from a CD to do it's graphical install that is supposed to have file system resizing. Can/does ReactOS support ELF? Alex Ionescu said that there's now an ELF loader [4]. If so, would there be anything special that would need to be done to run Linux binaries on ReactOS (beyond syscalls and porting dependencies)? Is there any advantages to the PE format? If ReactOS could support running Linux binaries it would be an easier sell to port Debian to ReactOS as it could reuse things that are already compiled for Debian. I believe the FreeBSD port (kFreeBSD that is) [5] re-uses some packages compiled for Linux. OTOH, PE would be a nicer way to go so that some support for MS Windows could be allowed... Or could MS Windows be made to support ELF? I'm afraid I also don't know much about the coff format. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-win32/ [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines (very similar or the same as the OpenSource definition) [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-win32/2005/10/msg00003.html Message-id: <43663BFE.9010004(a)liddicott.com> [4] http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293 [5] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html

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Re: [ros-diffs] [chorns] 19566: Speed up compilation of ntoskrnl

by Alex Ionescu

Hi, Do these changes break the MSVC backend? Best regards, Alex Ionescu

19 years

DOSemu for ReactOS

by crashfourit

Could we port DOSemu (http://www.dosemu.org/) to ReactOS for Dos and Win16 support? -- My DeviantArt.com page: http://crashfourit.deviantart.com/ My FanFiction.net bio page: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/726606/ My Blog: http://crashfourit.blogspot.com/ America's Debate: http://www.americasdebate.com/

19 years

Registry is messed up

by Brandon Turner

I think the registry is messed up. desk.cpl isnt writing the wallpaper style values, SystemParametersInfoW isnt wrtiting the path, and IntSystemParametersInfo isnt able to read the wallpaper settings from it. Also, my livecd wont boot with an error about not finding the codepage. This all leads me to believe that something is up with the registery. The last update i have is w3seek's where he reverted filip's registry changes. I dont know when this started happening, last day or so. It all worked fine when i commited 19476. Royce: The reason you werent getting the bugcheck with my stretch patch was because desk.cpl wasnt writing the wallpaper style values to the registry and tat is why the wallpaper didnt stick. I'm kinda busy right now. But hopfully within an hour I will be free and be able to do some more debuging. Brandon

19 years

Re: [ros-diffs] [gvg] 19572: Implement adding new sections/lines/fields and writing the resulting file

by Hartmut Birr

gvg(a)svn.reactos.com wrote: > Implement adding new sections/lines/fields and writing the resulting file > Added: trunk/reactos/lib/inflib/infhostglue.c > > *Added: trunk/reactos/lib/inflib/infhostglue.c* > --- trunk/reactos/lib/inflib/infhostglue.c 2005-11-25 21:29:16 UTC (rev 19571) > +++ trunk/reactos/lib/inflib/infhostglue.c 2005-11-25 21:37:23 UTC (rev 19572) > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ > +/* > + * PROJECT: .inf file parser > + * LICENSE: GPL - See COPYING in the top level directory > + * COPYRIGHT: Copyright 2005 Ge van Geldorp <gvg(a)reactos.org> > + */ > + > +/* INCLUDES *****************************************************************/ > + > +#include "inflib.h" > + > +#define NDEBUG > +#include <debug.h> > + > +void > +DbgPrint(const char *Fmt, ...) > +{ > + va_list Args; > + > + va_start(Args, Fmt); > + vfprintf(stderr, Fmt, Args); > + va_end(Args); > +} > + > +/* EOF */ > It is a little bit dirty to implement a well known function in a different way. - Hartmut

19 years

Re: [ros-dev] Log off reboots!

by TwoTailedFox

In Short, A Lot. ReactOS needs a proper shutdown and restart sequence (Like Linux does, when it sends TERM to all processes). Log Off is a tad harder. In order for Log Off to work properly, all the core processes need to be kept running (csrss, winlogon, etc), and the system needs to "Fall back" to a login screen. To do this, a User Logon System must be implemented, complete with per-user registry files, settings storage, and all the associated functions therein. AFAIK. On 11/26/05, Alex Buell <alex.buell(a)munted.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, TwoTailedFox wrote: > > > No, the Shutdown/Restart and Log Off portions are in need of a > > re-write, AFAIK. Since Local User Accounts are not implemented yet, we > > cannot "Log Off" per se on ReactOS just yet. > > Ok, what needs doing to implement this properly? I'd like to help if I > can. > > -- > http://www.munted.org.uk > > Anyone that thinks an imaginary deity is going to protect them against > earthquakes and hurricanes needs psychiatric help. > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev(a)reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > -- "I had a handle on life, but then it broke"

19 years

RE: [navaraf] 19636/19637/19638: Don't make cells smaller than they are.

by Ge van Geldorp

> From: navaraf(a)svn.reactos.com > > Don't make cells smaller than they are. Wow. Isn't it time we factor out the common code in cm, mkhive and freeldr and put it in a static library? GvG

19 years

Re: [ros-diffs] [navaraf] 19636: Don't make cells smaller than they are.

by Hartmut Birr

navaraf(a)svn.reactos.com wrote: > Don't make cells smaller than they are. > Modified: trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/cm/regfile.c > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Modified: trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/cm/regfile.c* > --- trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/cm/regfile.c 2005-11-26 13:26:48 UTC (rev 19635) > +++ trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/cm/regfile.c 2005-11-26 15:21:44 UTC (rev 19636) > @@ -3431,7 +3431,7 @@ > > RtlZeroMemory(*Cell, > CellSize); > > - ((PCELL_HEADER) (*Cell))->CellSize = -CellSize; > > + ((PCELL_HEADER) (*Cell))->CellSize *= -1; > > } > > return STATUS_SUCCESS; > This change is wrong. Possible we have split the cell. In this case, we have to set the new cell size. - Hartmut

19 years

RE: [ros-svn] [chorns] 19566: Speed up compilation of ntoskrnl

by Ge van Geldorp

> From: chorns(a)svn.reactos.com > > Speed up compilation of ntoskrnl Hmm, an unexpected consequence is that we can no longer enable DPRINTs per file by removing the "#define NDEBUG" statement. At the moment, the first source files included by io.c and cc.c (resp io/adapter.c and cc/cacheman.c) don't define NDEBUG before including debug.h. As a result, all DPRINTs in every file included by io.c/cc.c are enabled. GvG

19 years

Re: [ros-diffs] [gvg] 19618: Sync to Wine-0_9_2:

by Ged Murphy

19 years

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Ros-dev November 2005