Re: some trouble

[Michael Oberg]

>From the following description of the "magic" hurd server:
(http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-server#magic)

"He [Thomas Bushnell] also kindly explained a particular behavior that
usually puzzles normal end users when they first encounter it:
The inability to "ls /dev/fd" is because the translator doesn't know
what file descriptors you have open, so it can't tell you which ones exist.
But the behavior of it is exactly as on other systems."

(/dev/fd has something to do with filedescriptors, I thought at first it
was the floppy device :)

use 'find . -path '/dev' -prune' to keep find from trying to read /dev/fd
or any other problematic file (or should I say translator).

Michael Oberg
oberg@adhocinc.com


> hi
> 
> I still have the following error, could someone figure out, what it is ?
> 
> > I faced two problem with Debian GNU/Hurd, firstly,  when I change to the
> > /dev/fd and type ls i have
> > the following error:
> > 
> > ....hurd:/dev/fd#  ls
> >     Bus error
> >     hurd:/dev/fd#....
> > 
> > moreover, this has effect to other commands such as find,du, etc. 
> >
> 
> thanks
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