Re: Lost messages from the old mailing-lists

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello, Frédéric!

> Hi. It seems nobody sent announcements about the move to the
> old mailing-lists , or mail-archive.com just lost them, so if
> you can take a look at the following messages:

All the subsribers have been subscribed to the list. But we forgot about
non-subscribers. Sorry for that.

I've just sent the announcements. Better late than never.

> http://www.mail-archive.com/mc2-devel%40nuclecu.unam.mx/msg00217.html

It's a bug. I'm adding it to my todo list:

$ finger proski gnu org | grep achown
achown forgets permissions after changing the group

> http://www.mail-archive.com/mc2-devel%40nuclecu.unam.mx/msg00220.html

This one (two?) is already there:

$ finger proski gnu org | grep Slackware
cannot open master side of pty on Slackware 7.0 - fallback to -u ?
problems communicating with cons.saver on Slackware 7.0

It looks like that error processing in cons.saver doesn't work well. I
believe that Slackware ships with /dev/vcs* not accessible by users. Since
cons.saver is no longer setuid, it hangs instead of exiting.

I'll not make cons.saver setuid again, but a graceful fallback to a mode
without screen saving and/or subshell could be a good solution.

This is one the of high-priopity bugs - the new version should not be
released without having it fixed.

By the way, I believe we need a better bug database that my .plan file.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin