[I asked this on -questions, and got no response, so...]
Is it just me, or has disklabel lost the ability to read/write from
extended slices in 5.0-RELEASE?
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as well.
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. It would require
reworking the comments in the files in /etc/defaults, and a little
more discipline in editing them, but that's not necessarily a bad
thing.
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John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Isn't it early for april fool's?
Nah. Easter eggs are in the shops.
And the fools are forging mail.
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him about it.
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shells added later, whether from ports or elsewhere.
And I want the shed crimson with cream trim.
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with the BIOS either.
Anyone got a clue as to why the IRQ would change? Is there anything in
FreeBSD that could change it?
Thanx,
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Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
After installing a fresh cvsup last Sunday, I find that my usb printer
quit working. Some investigation shows that this is because the uhci
and fxp are now on the same IRQ.
Why would this cause your printer
e RFC 956
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for disaster right
now).
Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf
(KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)?
Thanx,
mike
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John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes:
: Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
: It is in the handbook, and has been for some time. I'm reviewing the
: recent KERNEL - KERNCONF changes to make sure
Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times
now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by
make -j 128 world
Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same
thing but without ccd
Andreas Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:37:54AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
... but /usr/pkg supplanting /usr/local is one of the things that I
like about NetBSD.
/usr/pkg sounds a little bit odd ... ( at least for my ears).
Why not choose what Solaris uses
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:33:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
The thing is, the package system has grown into something more than
that. It really is vendor-supplied and vendor-supported third party
software, and part of the distribution.
I can back
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
The problem is that the shared libraries aren't getting found when I
run the applix binary after a reboot.
Why do you say that? Where is the error message??
I say that because 1
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
At that point, you're running VistaSource's software, so they should
give you the details.
Then I'll just back out of trying to help figure out why many others can
run it outside of /usr
Michael C . Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
I know I should not jump into this bikeshed. But IMHO, whereever
we have our packages install to, we should also place
our ports metadata (/var/db/pkg) and the ports skeleton in the
same place, preferably a mountpoint. This allow me to switch
between
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for
/usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which
means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes being
Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes:
: I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip
: service than actual service.
Actually, which ports, specically, doesn't this work with? I've
installed several ports with PREFIX defined
Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Rant second: FreeBSD *violates* years of traditions with it's
treatment of /usr/local. /usr/local is for *local* things, not add-on
software packages! Coopting /usr/local for non-local software creates
needless complexity
Garrett Wollman [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:37:53 -0600 (CST), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
However, FreeBSD is still the only vendor distribution I know of that
installs software in /usr/local. That's the problem - software that
comes from the vendor doesn't
Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Meyer writes:
If memory serves (and it may not at this remove), /usr/local/bin
wasn't on my path until I started using VAXen, meaning there were few
or no packages installing in /usr/local on v6 v7 on the 11s.
If you remember v6 and v7
Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Haha... okay, then what's the argument about.
You're about six years late. The ports system has used $PREFIX for
precisely this purpose since October 1994.
As Jacques pointed out, you set LOCALBASE in /etc/make.conf.
The problem is that *it doesn't
Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whether or not it's part of FreeBSD is immaterial. It's part of the
distribution that comes from FreeBSD, and is treated differentlyh from
locally installed software (whether written locally or by a third
party
Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:02:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
The problem is that *it doesn't work*. Well, not very well. Part of it
is that it's only given lip service: the porters handbook says "make
your ports PREFIX clean"; portlint does
Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Meyer writes:
Sure, the software in ports/packages aren't part of FreeBSD. Using
that to claim they should have the same status or treatment as locally
written or maintained software is a rationalization.
You are simply wrong in your
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
This control is part of why it would be nice to have /usr/pkg separate
from /usr/local. I've given up on FreeBSD and had to create my own
/usr/treats to hold what should have been in /usr/local if the FreeBSD
Packages hadn't polluted it.
I went the
Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
David O'Brien writes:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote:
Basically, /usr/local is for anything the local administration wants to
officially support. The ports use of this (and by extension,
pre-compiled ports
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Wherease "PREFIX clean" means "all installed files are in the PREFIX
tree",
Correct.
I intend "LOCALBASE clean" to mean "all files installed by other ports
are looked for in the LOCALBASE tree".
If all ports are PREFIX clean, you will have
Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:51:25PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:26:38PM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote:
To the extent that NetBSD *forces* the local administrator to use
/usr/pkg, I find it contains the same deficiency.
Nope.
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:19:12PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
I intend "LOCALBASE clean" to mean "all files installed by other ports
are looked for in the LOCALBASE tree".
If all ports are PREFIX clean, you will have that.
Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
I'm aware that software was installing itself in /usr/local years
before it was installing in /opt. On the other hand, vendor software
was installing in /opt years before I ever saw it install in
/usr/local.
Most vendor software I know pre-dates
Andrew Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:31:10PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
Not /usr/local - that's for locally maintained software. I'd rather it
go on /usr, so I don't like /opt. When I got to choose, I chose
/usr/opt. But anything other than /usr/local on /usr
Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
I ran mostly DEC boxes until the early 90s, which had all software
installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
Well, I ran DEC boxes for Dec (at WSE) back in the late 80s and early
90s, and don't remember anything being in /usr/local that I didn't
drag of
Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
By your own admission, /usr/local wasn't used on v7. So the discussion
should turn to when BSD started seeing prebuilt vendor packages to
install in /usr/local.
Late '80s on DEC boxes running Ultrix (which one could argue is one of
the
Andrew Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:46:46PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
Fixing broken things is a good thing. Your argument about moving it
from /usr/local to show how broken is a good test procedure, but turning
it into policy is something completely
Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nate Williams writes:
: I know that as recent as 3=4 years ago, Purify installed itself by
: default in /usr/local, on SunOS and Solaris. Lucid did this as well,
: although things start getting pretty fuzzy going back that
Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
There are other places where FreeBSD doesn't comply with the
appropriate standard - packages vs. FHS, for instance. I claim that
We don't seek to comply with the arbitrarily devised linux filesystem
standard. We comply with hier(5), a standard
fixed.
mike
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David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip
service than actual service.
I disagree. If one of the ports I maintain isn't PREFIX-clean, let me
know and it _will_
involved.
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David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:41:14PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
Hmm - what's the stupidity? I have a test machine running both
-current and -stable
Do you have the two FreeBSD installations on the same disk? If so, I'd
love to hear how you did it. I
, ...), and you use it just like a tty line tied to
an external modem.
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Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David O'Brien" writes:
: Except for stupidity in libdisk(I believe) and thus sysinstall, there is
: no, none, zero reason why one cannot have two installations of FreeBSD in
: two different slices on the same disk.
I've done
the stupidity? I have a test machine running both
-current and -stable (and NetBSD-current, Solaris, Linux, and last and
least Win98), and haven't encountered any problems with it.
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Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001122 22:41] wrote:
Could I get some feedback on URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22755 ? It's just a
one-line kernel patch with some attendant updates in the kernel and
libc, but it makes dealing
Could I get some feedback on URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22755 ? It's just a
one-line kernel patch with some attendant updates in the kernel and
libc, but it makes dealing with broken #! scripts *much* saner, and no
one has even seen fit to comment on it yet :-(.
Like everyone else, I've been bit by /dev/random blocking because it
didn't have enough entropy. I recently got bit after booting the
system single-user to do some work, meaning nothing in the discussion
about when/where/how to deal with the entropy information addressed
this one.
It seems like
Gerhard Sittig writes:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:04 +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
Though I see your point, actually, many UNIX books, including
some pretty old ones, refer to sending HUP signal as standard
way of restarting/resetting daemons.
Please tell the software authors about it,
Gerhard Sittig writes:
What's new is:
- include the general config at the start (and yes, in every
single script -- but this should be neglectable in terms of
speed penalty and makes them work separately, too -- which is a
real big gain!)
This isn't really new; it's been nagging me
Garrett Rooney writes:
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:49:40AM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
Well, would not be this stepping aside from BSD startup sequence, which we
all know and love? Having dozens of small files instead of pair of
big ones always frustrates me when I have to work with
Alexey Dokuchaev writes:
Well, we *already* have over a dozen /etc/rc.* files on -current. And
we *don't* have the advantage of a consistent interface to control all
the functions in /etc/rc. If you break things up, then if you need to
restart the mail server, just go "/etc/rc.d/sendmail
Jordan Hubbard writes:
[redirected to just -current; I'm not sure what this has to do with -net]
I agree. I've been using them for a while on my dog slow Windows CE
machine. There were some minor issues when they were first committed
to NetBSD on some platforms (due to a too early use of
Chuck Robey writes:
I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII
setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my
system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up.
Is there any chance that I could make things better by using a
David O'Brien writes:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:18:05PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
Nope, the loader can load stuff from other partitions, even from some strange
ones like msdos ;), so theoretically it should be possible to have /boot, or
even /boot/kernel, on another partition (it may
Maxim Sobolev writes:
"Michael C . Wu" wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:22:20AM -0500, Mike Meyer scribbled:
| Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel,
| does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own
| partition (possibly i
I'm getting hard lockups booting a -current kernel supped about 6
hours ago. If I try to boot multiuser, I get a message about the
ethernet interface being configured, and then nothing. If I boot
single user, it comes up fine, and I can configure the NIC. The system
then locks up maybe 10 seconds
Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel,
does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own
partition (possibly in it's own slice)?
Thanx,
mike
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I've got a system with 4.1-STABLE installed. I mount -current sources
on it, do make buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld and
reboot. The boot loader runs, gives me the "booting default in..."
countdown, prints "|", and then stops. After thrashing the disks (with
*no* boot messages),
It seems that something has broken plaympeg - at least for video. In
trying to play video back, I get a black window and no images. Audio
playback seems fine. This is something I don't do often, so I'm not
sure when it happened.
Anyone else seeing this? Anyone working on it?
Thanx,
Nickolay Dudorov writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
It seems that something has broken plaympeg - at least for video. In
trying to play video back, I get a black window and no images. Audio
playback seems fine. This is something I don't do often, so I'm not
sure when it
attila! writes:
on Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:03:12 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I recently got my digital camera back out, and started pulling the old
pictures from it. I noticed something I hadn't ever seen before - silo
overflows from the sio port. At the moment, I'm
I recently got my digital camera back out, and started pulling the old
pictures from it. I noticed something I hadn't ever seen before - silo
overflows from the sio port. At the moment, I'm wondering if this is a
known problem that is being investigated (SMPNG comes to mind), or
something new.
Jordan Hubbard writes:
That's a nice idea and may work in my particular case, but this is
also the out-of-box configuration for Red Hat and most
Linux-to-FreeBSD users wouldn't know a tune2fs if it snuck up and bit
them on the ass in broad daylight. How hard would it be to support
sparse
Alexander Langer writes:
Thus spake Donn Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
What is the suggested best way to set permissions on devices in DEVFS?
(I want to chmod 664 /dev/acd0c to let users in the group operator
burn CD-R's).
Do we already have a common way that I missed?
/etc/rc.devfs
Seigo Tanimura writes:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:55:55 -0500,
"Jacques A. Vidrine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It would also be helpful for us to (semi-)automatically update old
binaries installed by ports. (I have been trying this for a couple of
days)
Jacques Personally I don't want
Alexander Langer writes:
Thus spake Mike Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Does it possibly belong in /etc/defaults/rc.devfs, to slurp in
/etc/rc.devfs (if it exists) at the end?
No - instead we should add something like devfs_permission{0,1,2,etc}
(and maybe ownership) to rc.conf, which can
Seigo Tanimura writes:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mike Seigo Tanimura writes:
Completely automatic update of installed ports is acutally difficult
because we cannot get to know the language or required toolkit from
the name of a binary
Vallo Kallaste writes:
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:01:28PM -0500, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've had a ton of experience with ahc lately, as those of you who follow
-questions, -stable, or -scsi know. r1.48 of aic7xxx.c is horribly
broken. I can't get current snaps after
It seems that recent (the last two weeks?) changes to periodic have
changed things so that non-root users of it no longer get any output.
A simple fix would be to change the default output to $USER (not yet
tested). However, having a user-specific periodic.conf would be a lot
more useful. But I
Brandon D. Valentine writes:
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
Err, AFAIK, the only instability atm is that under heavy load some ahc
controllers seem to hang (or possibly the ahc driver is getting out of
sorts and hanging.) However, the problem is not so bad that you can't
I've had
I cvsupped and rebuilt earlier to today, only to find that the kernel
was installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of
/boot/kernel/kernel.ko. While fixing this was trivial, it was a bit of
a surprise.
Is this a bug, or did I happen to catch the world in a state of change
described in a cvs-all
Ben Smithurst writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I cvsupped and rebuilt earlier to today, only to find that the kernel
was installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of
/boot/kernel/kernel.ko. While fixing this was trivial, it was a bit of
a surprise.
Is this a bug, or did I happen to catch
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Smithurs
t writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd
is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more
than something which has a
I just realized this may be a difference due to a between -current and
-stable, so I've moved discussion to -current to check. Apologies if
this was the wrong thing to do.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mike Meyer wrote:
It then fails to install for me with the error messages:
/tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin
Ben Smithurst writes:
After poking around a bit with remote GDB, this seems to be caused by a
stray IRQ 7, since irq == 7, ir == ithds[irq] == NULL, ir-foo == BOOM.
The attached rather crude patch has "fixed" the problem for now, but
does anyone have any suggestions for a real fix?
Isn't a
Jason Evans writes:
jasone 2000/09/06 18:33:03 PDT
Modified files:
bin/ps print.c
[...]
Nice try, but you didn't fool me. That's the SMP patch, even if the
first change in the first modified file is a spelling fix in a comment
in userland code!
Nice to see it's
Chris Hedley writes:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Brandon Hume wrote:
Just after the "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" message, I'll get a
number of SCB errors (which I don't have written down, unfortunately), and
then eventually a panic. This is with ACPI enabled... if I don't enable
ACPI,
Mitsuru IWASAKI writes:
All I can say is that acpi is initilized after pcib and its children
are attached so I don't think ACPI code affects PCI stuff...
# Power management support (see LINT for more options)
#device apm
device acpi
Could you disable acpi and
Looks like 3dfx linux emulation aren't mixing well. Since I don't
use 3dfx, I turn off that module.
What we really need is a system that lets me specify *which* modules
to build. Hmmm.
mike
=== 3dfx
make: don't know how to make @/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.h. Stop
*** Error code 2
First, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to explain what
was going on. It's now clear that I was confused, and things aren't
as bad as I thought. I'd like to see the Makefile changes so that if
there wasn't an empty /boot/device.hints, one was created, but that's
relatively minor.
David O'Brien writes:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:25:26AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
At the very least, there appears to be confusion about how to use the
2. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, and it must contain at
Brooks Davis writes:
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote:
Doing 'make install' without /boot/device.hints is failed,
saying "You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first."
Is this right?
You should read cvs-all. There was a commit by Peter which forces
James Johnson writes:
The method of building and installing a kernel to me seems a bit off.. Both
the buildworld and installworld targets default to GENERIC, yet GENERIC is a
file checked into the -CURRENT CVS repository.. Any changes to this file
will get blown away if whenever you update
Donn Miller writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the
relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how
/boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an
empty one keeps you from shooting yourself
Maxim Sobolev writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Donn Miller writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the
relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how
/boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having
Maxim Sobolev writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Will the system fail to boot if there isn't an empty device.hints
file?
No, it will boot, but some devices (like keyboard, console etc) would not work.
That's clearly not true - I just removed an empty /boot/device.hints
and rebooted
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes:
* From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Mike Meyer wrote:
* How does it decide whether or not a package conforms?
* Probably by looking for files which get installed in /usr/local or
* /usr/X11R6 instead of ${LOCALBASE
Mark Murray writes:
However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that
weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular
basis. That's not you.
There is a non-trivial Perl5 LOCALBASE problem that I'm trying to
get my head around.
If this is the problem with
Mark Murray writes:
However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that
weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular
basis. That's not you.
There is a non-trivial Perl5 LOCALBASE problem that I'm trying to
get my head around.
I'm actually discussing one
Konstantin Chuguev writes:
"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote:
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:01:59AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
Um - why? If you removed the setting of LOCALBASE in that case, you
wouldn't change the disk layout at all.
I prefer installed executables, data files, and
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes:
* From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that
* weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular
* basis. That's not you.
I can help you when the new package building cluster
Warner Losh writes:
Having said this, if you can come up with a foolproof way to get the
ioctls right on all the drives that do support them, even the whacked
out ones that need all kinds of quirky entries, and do it in a way
that doesn't needlessly bloat the kernel for little gain (few
Matthew Jacob writes:
If the answer from the person who would have to approve the code had
come back "Ok, provide the code and we'll see how well it works in
practice", I'd do the code. But when it appears the code would never
make it into the tree to be used, why waste my time?
'coz
Mark Murray writes:
So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD
would be nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do
I get somebody to work on it? ;-)
Ever since the Phoenecians invented money, there has been at least
one guaranteed answer to that :-)
Brian Fundakowski Feldman writes:
One thing that's missing is the ioctl CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE. It would
be _really_ nice if cd(4) supported that ioctl so I could just seek
and read from a CD. I had knu trying out my read_cd program, and it
doesn't work for SCSI CD-ROMs, seemingly because of
Jacques A. Vidrine writes:
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm curious - are there any committers who regularly use a system with
LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?
I have LOCALBASE=/opt for a couple of years now.
OTOH, I also have a symlink
I'm curious - is there some reason that the CDR ioctls (in
/usr/include/sys/cdrio.h) aren't supported for MMC cds? It looks like
doing them for MMC would be straightforward, it's the kind of thing
that an OS is supposed to do, and it would allow people with MMC
drives to cdrecord for the much
Kenneth D. Merry writes:
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:54:49 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm curious - is there some reason that the CDR ioctls (in
/usr/include/sys/cdrio.h) aren't supported for MMC cds? It looks like
doing them for MMC would be straightforward, it's the kind of thing
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