Userfs 0.8(.1) with kernel 1.2.9? (fwd)

jepler@herbie.unl.edu
Mon, 26 Jun 1995 07:32:11 -0500 (CDT)


About a week or so ago, I sent this to the author listed in the Userfs
0.8 package. Since I've not gotten a reply, I thought maybe someone on
this list could offer me some help:

jepler wrote:
> From jepler Sun Jun 18 11:20:23 1995
> Subject: Userfs 0.8(.1) with kernel 1.2.9?
> To: jeremy@sw.oz.au
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:20:23 -0500 (CDT)

I've been trying to get your userfs-0.8.1 to work, but genser and genhdr
don't seem to be able to handle the kernel include files anymore:

for i in genser lib lwp kernel clients; do make CXX="g++" PROF="" -C $i; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/userfs-0.8/genser'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/userfs-0.8/genser'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/userfs-0.8/lib'
make -C ../genser gencode
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/userfs-0.8/genser'
make[2]: `gencode' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/userfs-0.8/genser'
rm -rf types
mkdir types
../genser/gencode -I. -I../lwp -I../kernel -I../genser -Csed -l types ../kernel/linux/userfs_types.ty
/usr/include/linux/types.h:24:parse error, expecting `NUM' or `'(''Bad input file
make[1]: *** [userfs_types.cc] Error 1

Have you continued work on userfs? Am I likely to have any luck if I
tried an older version of the kernel includes, but with a 1.2.9 kernel?
Or am I just out of luck?

My interest in userfs is the ftp filesystem, and the possibility of
expanding it into a general url filesystem, allowing "more
/url/http/cse.unl.edu/~jepler" or similar. (A bad example, because I'm
not suggesting the filesystem would actually format the .html file)

Jeff

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Anyone else tried to use userfs lately?

Jeff

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