Re: how to actually find out whether data hit the disk?

2001-03-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Anton Berezin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So is there a way, or is not? No. If there was a way to tell it'd be a bug. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to actually find out whether data hit the disk?

2001-03-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e" (note to self: get more sleep) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help

2001-03-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
43991 freevnodes > > well vmstat showing 100% busy and iostat showing 10% busy.. No, -vmstat and -iostat are showing 13 and 12 tps (transactions per second), respectively. -iostat doesn't show a "busy percentage". DES -- Dag-

Re: Intel PRO/100+ PCI problem

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
& PLAY OS" *on* and add 'options PNPBIOS' to your kernel. If that doesn't solve your problem, we have a bug. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
* 1,7 ! the little ! horse ! jumped ! over ! the ! fence --- 1,7 ! three ! ducks ! swim ! in ! a little ! pond des@flood ~% diff -u old new --- old Sun Mar 11 03:07:31 2001 +++ new Sun Mar 11 03:08:08 2001 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -the +three +ducks +swim +in +a little -horse -jumped -over

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-h

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:53:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) > > Umm, you want pipe(

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ut the setting of the break. Ahem. The other way around, actually (we increased KVM space from 256 MB to 1 GB - not 2 GB as you claim). And the problem with legacy BSDI binaries (newer ones don't have this problem) was fixed a long time ago, in 3.0 (before 3.0-RELEASE). DES -- Dag-Erling Smo

Re: apache truss readings

2001-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] Try ktrace instead, it provides much more detailed information. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Debuging kernel crashes

2001-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
an do about cleaning them up and committing them. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel panic

2001-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could take a look at www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html > and provide a bit more details about that crash; at the very least, > a 'where' or 'bt' would be useful. That, and a dmesg, or at least una

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded s cerver

2001-03-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
eate approximately one 68GB swap partition. "approximately one"? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

gcc -O bug

2001-04-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
712 20 | 816 21 |## 2446 22 |###### 500 23 |## 326 DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* * Copyright (c) 2001 ThinkSec AS. All rights reserved. * * $ThinkSec$ */ #include #include #include #include static int

Re: gcc -O bug

2001-04-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
- and in any case, this is irrelevant. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Fetching an index of an FTP site using fetch...

2001-05-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
hrough the source of fetch and libfetch, and > it seems like there's some stub code that hasn't been flushed out > completely. Anyone know of any plans to finish this up? Feel free to send patches :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: FPU exception, kernel panic

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e segment descriptor. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: squeeze freeBSDs' kernel size

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
rnel Ask the freebsd-small mailing list. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Getting peer credentials on a unix domain socket

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
rt's content even if you're no longer root. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ex, and why it doesn't print a message when it omits printing an opaque variable. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a good reason why sysctl(8) won't display _any_ output for > > opaque MIB entries named as arguments? > Yes it will, with -X. The interesting question is

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 07 May 2001 18:51:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Yes it will, with -X. The interesting question is why there isn't an > > option to make it display just one variable in hex, and why it doesn't > > prin

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about e.g. 'sysctl -a hw', which still shows *all* MIB's? > At least on ref5 as of this very moment.. Yes, because '-a' means 'show all non-opaque' and 'hw' is ignored. DES -- Dag-Erling S

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:52:15PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about e.g. 'sysctl -a hw', which still shows *all* MIB's? > > Yes, b

Re: FPU exception, kernel panic

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
what's described here anyway - you'd see the kernel stack getting smashed, not an FPU exception. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e -x option makes it slightly less so. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: gcc -O bug

2001-04-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jason Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I ran into this bug while analyzing a customer's logs to determine the > > best time of day for an upgrade. The original script was in Perl, but > > I rewrote it in C because it was t

Re: Tuning, security, firewall man pages up for review

2001-05-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/tuning.html In the kernel config tuning section, you've misspelt NSFBUFS as NFSBUFS, which doesn't exist. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every time I tease my housemate's cat with a laser pointer, I am > violating a US patent. (No, really.) I need to get a laser pointer... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kevin Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just ordered a spare machine a few days ago. I'll install > -CURRENT on it, and start the integration. I've been > needing something to keep myself out of trouble. That's our new slogan: "FreeBSD - keeping kids

Re: modified natd again

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Urban Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another strange thing is that when I try to use tcpdump it doesn´t show all > packets. No packets are "dropped by kernel" but tcpdump have received > packets but don´t show them. Could this in some way be related. Use the -n op

Re: strangeness in web interface of send-pr

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
erity and priority. They are set by the submitter and rarely if ever changed by committers, and are usually far more indicative of the submitter's state of mind than of the PR's importance. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Article Network performance by OS

2001-06-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
or some pocket change are. So we turned it back on. If you're not happy with that, put 'hw.ata.wc="0"' in your /boot/loader.conf and they'll be off after the next reboot. Or get real disks. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
dent on Linux would be forced to GPL their software or fold. Talk about bait-and-switch! It's for this reason, by the way, that the LGPL has been renamed from "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
NetBSD rc stuff instead of our own. I know that it won't work properly for a while, but it would lower the amount of effort needed for anyone to start hacking on it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
SDK? And doesn't this sound a bit circular? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Your new web site

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone close enough to drive round and have a quiet word? > "Netiquette" for instance. Or "asking for trouble". Or "lookity shiny new baseball bat"? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubs

Re: real time

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e code, then you've effectively got a {BSD,MIT,Apache} license (except for a few details about attributions and the naming of derivative software), and you might as well make the change in name as well as in function. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ery-shortly-now(tm). Since Mike's patch is a style cleanup with no functional impact except plugging a memory leak, I feel it's better to commit it first, and merge in Alexey's patch later, after it's been reviewed by this forum. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
similar at the kernel level, and as others have stated before in a different context, driver source does not constitute adequate documentation. It helps, but it's neither sufficient nor necessary. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
on. It helps, but it's neither sufficient nor necessary." A 3.x driver *could* be ported forward to 4.x and 5.x, but the required changes are not trivial (newbus, SMPng...) and you'd still need sample boards for testing and debugging, and docs for reference when you don't unders

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
y if, as you say, they have a 4.1 version out now. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
', or just 'openssl -help'. You'll be surprised... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
n Linux that caused all kinds of nasty bugs and problems. There was one in FreeBSD too. It's been fixed; accept(2) will return -1 and set errno to ECONNABORTED, which you'd know if you'd RTFM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
in that socket's listen queue. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PEACE - Portable Executable win32 API Compatible Environment.

2000-09-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
o translate Win32 API call to NetBSD native system call. What is the difference between PEACE and WINE? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: virtual console 'snapshot'?

2000-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
think is possible in FreeBSD. Apart from that, the only ugliness is the need to fondle syscons' privates. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Marc Tardif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I find the source to specific functions in /usr/src/sys? http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source> DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&qu

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
t seems my rabid FreeBSD propaganda has paid off :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: XFreeBSD Install - 4.1-RELEASE #:0 Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
dynamically loadable, and we don't want to put too much into the GENERIC kernel. 5.0 can load the sound drivers dynamically, and I expect 4.2 will as well. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.1-stable crash.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e the panic messages? > dmesg: kvm_read: > --- > #0 0xc0132df8 in boot () > (kgdb) where > #0 0xc0132df8 in boot () > Cannot access memory at address 0xce51d9b8. > (kgdb) This probably means the panic was in a KLD. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscr

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
> know if this conflicts somewhere?). You might want to look at src/sys/i386/isa/if_rdp.c instead. And yes, dl is available, though there's a header file called if_dl.h; if your driver needs its own header file, call it if_dlreg.h. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: 4.1-stable crash.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
FengYue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Oct 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > -> > panic messages: > -> > --- > -> Where are the panic messages? > > Unfortunately, there is no panic messages. I compiled the kernel with > -g (without DDB), and set

I'm convinced 'gcc' is meant to be pronounced 'ARRRRGGGHHH!'

2000-10-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Will someone please inform the gcc developers of the last decade's advances in C standardization? Yes, Virginia, ISO C (it's not ISO C any more, and hasn't been since 1989) does support 'long long' and the 'll' format. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PRO

Re: I'm convinced 'gcc' is meant to be pronounced 'ARRRRGGGHHH!'

2000-10-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
nd the 'll' format modifier) has been in the works for most of the previous decade, and was ratified (as ISO/IEC 9899:1999) on December 16th, 1999, but gcc still seems to live in 1989-land. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe a correct and true statement is "FreeBSD is a direct decendant > of Unix(TM). Based on the BSD sources" I don't think there's all that much left of the original BSD sources... at least not in the kernel. DES

Re: Kernel calls, are they documented somewhere?

2000-11-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
he errno (in your example, open(2) returned 2, which is ENOENT, i.e. the file didn't exist). If it succeeded, the value returned is the result (a file descriptor in open(2)'s case). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Mounting a md as a root filesystem.

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # load -t md /filesystemfile Shouldn't that be 'load -t md_root'? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
any reason that FreeBSD doesn't have such a state? It has several, depending on the type of I/O the process is waiting for: biord (waiting for a read operation to complete), biowr (waiting for a write operation to complete), select (waiting for descriptors to become readable / writable), etc.

Re: Help writing a screen saver module

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
x27;t Do That. Sorry. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mounting a md as a root filesystem.

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Nov 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # load -t md /filesystemfile > > Shouldn't that be 'load -t md_root'? > Actually, it's md_im

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason top couldn't add these up and report a %iowait > like Solaris'? Yes. It would conceal valuable information. Do the adding up in your head. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [...] > Jessem. Amazing what people will do to evade killfiles. Plonk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Couple of config questions...

2000-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ther messages, with timestamps, to various log files located in /var/log (most prominently /var/log/messages) as specified in /etc/syslogd.conf. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently there was a message indicating that ISC is deprecating > nslookup. "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year and a half, I believe. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Uns

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Enemy said it before: don't believe the hype. In this case, the hype > that an Internet year is only a few weeks of wallclock time. I'm sure there must be some meaning to what you write, but it keeps eluding me. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: pipe

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
It talks about passing an address to the > function. I don't get it... What address? I want it to allocate memory > for me and tell me its address. How am I supposed to know what address > is available??? Did you even read the man page? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL P

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brandon Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year > > and a half, I believe. > Will a replacement be added to the base distro? When? 1) nslookup is still in the b

Re: pipe

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"G. Adam Stanislav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Did you even read the man page? > Many times, actually. And on different days, too. :) No, you didn't. You probably read the first line, t

Re: pipe

2000-12-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"G. Adam Stanislav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:11:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >The second and third sentences of the second paragraph (the one that > >starts on line 23), as well as the entire eighth paragraph (that >

Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages.

2000-12-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ptor to /dev/zero (or was it /dev/null?) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages.

2000-12-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remy Nonnenmacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, I may think using this solution if it remains portable between > > Unixes. > It's perfectly portable, with one small variation - on BSD systems, > yo

Re: Kernel question (detecting a user log-on)

2000-12-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
packets for port 23 and detect if a user logged on? > I'm pretty unsure about this.. Why don't you tell us what you want to do, instead of how you think it must be done? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BSD for the masses. "BSD on every desk and in every home" DES (ducks, runs) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: eye-candy hack - warp_saver changing direction :)

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
27;t > it - how often the saver is called to do its dance.. kern.* is not the right place for this. It should go in user.*, unless that is reserved for userland, in which case a subtree of kern.* is probably the Right Thing. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: s

Re: eye-candy hack - warp_saver changing direction :)

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
itute for reading src/sys/sys/sysctl.h. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
f the expected number of users (724 in your case - closest primes are 719 and 727), create that many bucket directories, and place each user in bucket ID mod K. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ust like you want an odd (and preferably prime) stripe size on RAIDs to (amongst other reasons) avoid having all the superblock backups end up on the same disk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&qu

Re: ata weirdness

2000-12-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ta_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata0-master: ata_command: identify failed > ad2: 39082MB [79406/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 > I bet your CD-ROM is incorrectly configured as master. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: keeping lots of systems all the same...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Office. > If you want to run both Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB > isn't enough. Sigh. Avoid StarOffice like the plague. It's neat, but it leaks like a sieve, and barely crawls along on my 450 MHz K6-2. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsu

Re: Supporting VirtualPC...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
correctly sets cpu_vendor to "ConnectixCPU" (rather than e.g. "GenuineIntel" or "AuthenticAMD") you can just check against that. It's declared in . DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Supporting VirtualPC...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
C_CPU > int cpu_is_vpc; > #endif > and not break anyone's heart? No. Check cpu_vendor at probe/attach time and set a flag in the interface's softc that indicates that it needs to be treated as a VPC emulated interface. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
mmer. In other words you can write a program > exactly like another, if you can prove you never saw the other > program. If you saw the similar program you are dirty. AT&T (or Novell, don't remember if it was before or after the sale of USL) tried to use that argument against UCB. It

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
f the directory exists; make sure to differentiate between "somebody already holds the lock" and "the lock can't be created due to permission errors or some other problem" by examining $!) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Volker Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > What are you guys smoking? > *shrug* Can you spell "event-driven"? There are ways to do things much > more elegantly today (see all the references to

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:44:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Volker Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > What are you

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ery well received. The 3.1-RELEASE and 3.2-RELEASE CD sets had the "waiter beastie" graphic (the one on 3.1 had no tail!), but by 3.3 WC had reverted to Hosokawa-san's "beastie coming out of a CD" artwork. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscrib

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
vely slow) route lookup process. The packet flows > directly from one layer2 input routine directly to the opposing > layer2 output routine without traversing the IP layer. And more importantly, without traversing ipfw or ipfilter. In other words, don't use this on a firewall. DE

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ts (because our ints and pointers are the same size), but that's no reason not to do things right. Also, I don't see the point in munging the Makefile like you do - I think we can live with having a Makefile that's slightly (and trivially) different from NetBSD's. DES -- Dag

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your rcorder patch is incorrect. Here's a correct patch. Does anybody mind if I commit this and connect rcorder(8) to the build? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
t header, I should have simply looked at the libutil Makefile. Thanks! DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: truss vs ktrace

2001-10-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
e -l command-line option to kdump. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a correct patch. Murphy's Law of Attachments, etc. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: Makefile === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin

Re: truss vs ktrace

2001-10-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ptrace() can only return one int at a time from process memory whereas with /proc/pid/mem you can read as much as you want in one go. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Huh? Int on alpha is 32, and pointer is 64. I thought we were ILP64 on 64-bit archs, but you're right. And I ought to know better... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your rcorder patch is incorrect. Here's a correct patch. Does anybody mind if I commit this and connect rcorder(8) to the build? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: buildworld breakage during "make depend" at usr.bin/kdump

2001-11-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Eugene L. Vorokov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uhmz ? Your shell is broken. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Bugmeister discussion list

2001-11-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22 Nov 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I've set up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Any reason this can't/shouldn't be a freebsd.org mailing list? Mostly because setting up a freebsd.org mailing list takes

Bugmeister discussion list

2001-11-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
nisms for PR handling in the context of the FreeBSD Project. To subscribe, send the usual magic incantations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Bugmeister discussion list

2001-11-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Gary Jennejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems like a fatal name for the list considering what > buggers means. I know perfectly well what it means. I did say the list was informal, didn't I? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: se

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-11-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
f the data will end up getting converted to heat by their equipment, but they generally have good cooling, so if you don't overdo it you should be OK. I hope this answers your question. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &quo

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