[Coco] Another NitrOS-9 Level 1 question

[Bill Pierce]

William, I haven't used inetd in L1 (or L2 for that matter), so I can't help you there. Aaron Wolfe would be the one to ask. He's a little more knowledgable in that area (he wrote it I think).
I'm not even sure inetd will work with L1. It may have some L2 exclusive system calls in it. From looking at the source, it forks one or two processes (tmode for one), so that's going to cause problems in L1 when memory is tight.

What exactly are you trying to do?

Most of my work is in L2, though I really want to start playing around with L1 and see what I can milk out of it. I haven't really messed with L1 since '87-88 when I started up L2 for the first time. For the most part, I never looked back.

What L1 (and Coco 1 & 2) needs is more memory. There was some interest in the J&R Banker 256k/512k memory expansions a while back. With everyone doing all these hardware projects, this would be an easy project and I'm sure Ciaran could add the expansion to XRoar in emulation as well. With a proper driver, it could be made to work similar to L2's bank switching without the hires graphics. I know theres work being done similar to this on the "Multicomp" board, but I don't know how far they've taken it. The extra memory would mean more processes (like L2) and would solve a lot of L1 memory problems.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 1, 2017 7:43 am
Subject: [Coco] Another NitrOS-9 Level 1 question

I am trying to start the inetd in the startup script but am running intosomething strange:After startup completes, there is an extra shell "stuck" in memory becauseI called inetd as a background process.  This does not happen under Level 2.Here are the details.Bill Pierce's XRoar pre-built binary package.  Using the 32 columnversion.  All XRoar settings are default from the package ask is theOS9Boot.My startup file and the process list after boot and I have logged intoNOS-9 in a telnet session:OS9:list startuplink shelldel /dd/LOGS/inetd.log(inetd>>>/dd/LOGS/inetd.log)&list sys/motdOS9:procsUsr #  id pty  state   mem primary module----- --- --- -------- --- --------------    0   3 128  active    3 Shell <N2    0   6 128  waiting   4 inetd <DD    0   1 128  waiting   1 SysGo <Term    0   4 128  waiting   3 Shell <DD    0   2 128 sleeping   3 Shell <TermThe stuck shell process is ID 4.  Killing the process manually works andfrees up the memory that was being used.  Additionally, if you kill theinetd (ID 6) then both it and the shell will terminate.Any thoughts would be welcome.  Thanks.William-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco