GPM ported

[Stefan Sperling]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:52:38AM +0000, Malcolm wrote:
> On 11/25/06, Troy Davis <troy_ed at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > and a updated patch for gpm - which builds/fixes libgpm to use /var/run/gp
> > instead of /var/run/gpctrl since for some reason the gpm program is only
> > creating /var/run/gp
> 
> /dev/gpmctl
> /var/run/gp
> 
> looks like the string is a fixed length.

mmmh. Looks like it's due to GPF's diff (see excerpt below).

@GPF: please do not substitude GPM_NODE_CTL all over the place.
Redefine the constant itself, if you need to. That's what it is for.

@@ -312,20 +314,20 @@

       bzero((char *)&addr,sizeof(addr));
       addr.sun_family=AF_UNIX;
-      strcpy(addr.sun_path, GPM_NODE_CTL);
-      i=sizeof(addr.sun_family)+strlen(GPM_NODE_CTL);
+      strcpy(addr.sun_path, "/var/run/gp");
+      i=sizeof(addr.sun_family)+strlen("/var/run/gp");

       if(connect(gpm_fd,(struct sockaddr *)(&addr),i)<0 ) {
          struct stat stbuf;

-         gpm_report(GPM_PR_INFO,GPM_MESS_DOUBLE_S,GPM_NODE_CTL,strerror(errno));
+         gpm_report(GPM_PR_INFO,GPM_MESS_DOUBLE_S,addr.sun_path,strerror(errno));
           /*
            * Well, try to open a chr device called /dev/gpmctl. This should
            * be forward-compatible with a kernel server
            */
           close(gpm_fd); /* the socket */
-          if ((gpm_fd=open(GPM_NODE_DEV,O_RDWR))==-1) {
-            gpm_report(GPM_PR_ERR,GPM_MESS_DOUBLE_S,GPM_NODE_DEV
+          if ((gpm_fd=open("/var/run/gp",O_RDWR))==-1) {
+            gpm_report(GPM_PR_ERR,GPM_MESS_DOUBLE_S,"/var/run/gp"
                                                    ,strerror(errno));
             goto err;



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stefan
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