Linux-Development-Sys Digest #451

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Linux-Development-Sys Digest #451, Volume #8 Mon, 29 Jan 01 20:13:08 EST

Contents:
  Re: Linux Kernel book about linux 2.0 still useful?? ("Bill Anderson")
  Re: Kernel's HARD reset (David Vidal Rodriguez)
  Re: booting CD, ramfs -> / in 2.4, some issues ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  can Linux be secure? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: can Linux be secure? (Erik de Castro Lopo)
  How to Recompile the Linux Kernel? ("Efrain Pinto")
  Re: Accessing Kernel Process Structs from a Module (Bob Dilworth)
  Re: Newbie to kernel module programming ("Rich")
  Re: Newbie to kernel module programming ("Rich")
  test ("Ed Gregg")
  How can I lock a page and get the physical addr from user mode? ("Ed Gregg")
  Re: Newbie to kernel module programming ("Rich")
  Re: Newbie to kernel module programming ("Rich")
  Re: How can I lock a page and get the physical addr from user mode? (MurThauZ)
  Re: getche() ("Filipe Maia")
  Re: Why max 8 SCSI LUNS/device (bill davidsen)
  Re: Kernel's HARD reset (bill davidsen)



From: "Bill Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel book about linux 2.0 still useful??
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:39:06 +0700

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kaelin Colclasure"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> I have borrow a book of linux kernel call "Linux Kernel Internals"
>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201331438/qid=980587111/sr=2-
>> 3/ref=sc_b_3/105-4344940-5085540
>> 
>> After scanning through the book, I find that it is a good written book.
>> However, the kernel this book discussing is still 2.0, do I still worth
>> to put time to read it?
> 
> IMO the book is excellent and well worth the time of anyone wanting to
> explore the Linux kernel. If you're waiting for a book to be printed
> that actually matches the ``current'' version of the Linux kernel, I
> suspect Linux will be a historical footnote by then -- along with all
> the hardware it presently runs on... :-)

Not neccesarily. _Linux_Internals_ by Moshe Bar covers 2.4.0, and seems
to be a pretty good book IMO.



Bill Anderson

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From: David Vidal Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel's HARD reset
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:41:48 +0100

OK, I think I have it. The kernel option "reboot=warm" should do it,
shouldn't it?

Is there a /proc-style solution for the same?

Regards,
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 David Vidal R. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: booting CD, ramfs -> / in 2.4, some issues
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:44:29 -

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:35:44 GMT Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:35:53 +0100 Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|> | A quite good way to initialize /etc/mtab is by doing
|> | "cp /proc/monts /etc/mtab" somewhere in the bootup after
|> | the pivot_root call.
|
|> I could put that in my cdinit program before it hands off to
|> init, just in case the rc scripts don't initialize it.
|
| You need to modify the root entry.

What kind of modification do you have in mind?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can Linux be secure?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:12:11 -

Note that the question is "can", not "is".  Also note that I did
say "Linux" and not a distribution such as "Redhat", "SuSE", or
"Debian".

If a custom made distribution consisting of well audited programs
and other components (including especially system and administration
facilities) is bundled with the Linux kernel, just how safe is the
kernel itself in terms of security, compared to a system like OpenBSD?
Assume one used all the same program components as OpenBSD did and
just compare the kernels.

I'm trying to make a fairly final decision between going with Linux
or OpenBSD for some custom firewalls I am building.  These will be
fairly stripped down; if it isn't needed, it isn't there.  They will
also be able to boot from CD (optional) further preventing insertion
of trojans in the event someone does get in.

The reasons I tend to lean towards Linux include being more familiar
with it (e.g. less li

Linux-Development-Sys Digest #451

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Linux-Development-Sys Digest #451, Volume #6  Thu, 4 Mar 99 04:14:08 EST

Contents:
  Re: patching kernel (2.2.2) help (Jay Thorne)
  DPT Raid Hardware ("Joseph Blackburn")
  Video Game Developers Wanted ("Jacob Lambert")
  Re: RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error (Harold Henry)
  Linux on Mips Wince hardware? (Bill Broadley)
  Re: Kernel NFS Problem; device busy (Tim Dawson)
  Re: booting NT & linux (Jussi Torhonen)
  Re: console and groups (Slyglif Cain)
  Re: waiting for milliseconds? (Olav Woelfelschneider)
  Re: something like getch needed (Mark Hahn)
  Re: Why I'm dumping Linux, going back to Windblows ("Csaba Raduly")
  Re: Scheduler policies (Mark Hahn)
  Re: Kernel 2.2 on top of 2.0.36 installations (Jeff Daly)
  Re: OpenGL question. (David T. Wang)
  Re: Problem loading modules with kernel 2.2.2 and modutils 2.1.121 (kingman cheung)
  Re: X Windows Graphics programing (Mark Hahn)
  glibc dangling pointer? (Greg Herlein)
  cdrom capacity ? ("Thierry BUCCO")
  Re: Any advantage to 2 swap partitions ? ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")



From: Jay Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: patching kernel (2.2.2) help
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 03:18:20 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> They're now up to 7 last time I checked, but I am having trouble installing
> patches: various combinations of 1-7, 3+ or only 5 all complain that [many]
> patches will create files that already exist.  I have tried various answers
> to the "-R" and "apply anyway?", but get numerous rejects.
> 
> What's the correct approach?

Start with a virgin 2.2.2 tree in /usr/src/linux ie:
cd /usr/src
mv linuz linux-old
tar -xzvf linux-2.2.2.tar.gz
cp linux-old/.config linux/.config ( to preserve your old configuration)
bzip2 -d patch-2.2.2.ac7.bz2
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1 <../patch-2.2.2.ac7

make config ( and answer all the questions)

make dep && make clean && make zImage && make modules && make modules
install

If you have redhat, 
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.2-ac7;
cd /boot
ln -sf vmlinuz-2.2.2-ac7 vmlinuz
lilo -v

if you have most other distros

make zlilo



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From: "Joseph Blackburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: DPT Raid Hardware
Date: 4 Mar 1999 03:36:19 GMT

Has anyone gotten the DPT Raid driver in 2.2.2. working on a Smart V?
Thanks

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From: "Jacob Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 
3dfx.glide.linux,ab.software.developers,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Video Game Developers Wanted
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:06:51 -0600

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software developers who are interested in a challenging and growth-oriented
opportunity. Successful candidates must have experience with one or more of
the following: C, C++, Visual C++, VB, Oracle, SQL, 3D/2D modeling and
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paced team environment while handling multiple projects are essential.
Fax or e-mail resume.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]




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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Henry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error
Date: 3 Mar 1999 15:27:03 GMT

I have this card to and Have No problems using linux. However my CD is
connected to a cheap ide controller card I bought because there is only
one ide port on my cmd 640.

In article <7bibfl$at$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
leslie barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Patrick,
> 
> I also have a CMD640 controller (a really cheap PCI/ISA multi-function
> card), and have had nothing but trouble with it.  Linux does better than
> most, but my secondary drive still reports short reads on imaginary sectors.
> MS-DOS won't even recognize the secondary controller - I have to initialize
> using Linux.
> 
> I am using RedHat (5.0), and the kernel comes with CMD640 support compiled
> in (that's why you're getting the "buggy cmd640" messages - if it weren't,
> you wouldn't get those messages).  This looks like a real problem, perhaps
> with the CMD640 workaround code, or perhaps with your system.  Your best
> bet is to get an add-on IDE card with BIOS, and g