Re: Anyone object to the following change in libc?

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Tobin
I think ISO-C is pretty clear here. It would be wise to raise this on comp.std.c which is read by several of the ISO C standard authors. Things that seem pretty clear often turn out not to be... -- Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Tobin
Yeah... Think Sun2 systems http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/nd.html Though it wasn't just for booting in the old days. On a diskless workstation, your whole filesystem would be on nd. And it was a real mistake to mount a writable partition on two machines, but nothing

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Tobin
Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing. For those who don't know what it is, they can read README: Aaargh! It's the return of nd(4) from SunOS. (Sorry about that.) -- Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: pccardd in DP2

2002-11-23 Thread Richard Tobin
That's because pccardc and pccardd aren't supported in NEWCARD. Ok. It might be worth noting that in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which still has all the pccard_* variables with no suggestion that they don't work. consider devd. It is somewhat incomplete in DP2, but complete enough for this.

Re: pccardd in DP2

2002-11-23 Thread Richard Tobin
consider devd. It is somewhat incomplete in DP2, but complete enough for this. Thanks, I'll try it. Is there any documentation for devd.conf? The man page is incomplete (it only describes the syntax of comments, though admittedly it does that in great detail) and there's no default

pccardd in DP2

2002-11-22 Thread Richard Tobin
I now have DP2 running on my Vaio Z600 laptop, and I'm trying to get my wireless ethernet running. The cardbus is detected: kernel: cbb0: RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 12.0 on pci0 kernel: cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 kernel: pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 But when it tries to

5.0 DP2 on Vaio Z600

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Tobin
I'm trying to install DP2 on a Sony Vaio Z600TEK laptop, but it hangs at Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while) It's not completely hung, in that I can switch to the second console and back. The last message there is DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to sl0 and this is

DP2 root partition size

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Tobin
Somewhere there should be a warning that the root partition needs to be *much* bigger in 5.0 than in 4.x. It's gone from 40-something MB to 92 MB for a default install. It's really frustrating to install a system and find that / is 104% full. It looks as if even with 128 MB you're not going to

Re: The official GEOM is in the tree speech.

2002-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
For those of us who scan the -current mailing list from time to time but don't actually run current, is there a description somewhere of what GEOM *is*? -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: aout support broken in gcc3

2002-09-04 Thread Richard Tobin
You are blowing this out of proportion and not actually reading what people are proposing. So far, the comments are about removing a.out support from the base compiler and offering a.out binutils and gcc _as ports_. That would be sufficient for my needs (a matching gdb would be useful too,

Re: aout support broken in gcc3

2002-09-03 Thread Richard Tobin
GCC being able to produce a.out format binaries has nothing to do with the ability of a Lisp or Prolog to compile to object files, Correct. and read such, whether said object files be a.out or ELF or COFF or PECOFF or Mach-O or ... False. As I said, I have systems that read a.out format

Re: aout support broken in gcc3

2002-09-03 Thread Richard Tobin
False. As I said, I have systems that read a.out format object files and they would need to be ported to read ELF object files instead. Furthermore, they write themselves out (after loading object files) in a.out format, and would need to be ported to write themselves out in ELF

Re: aout support broken in gcc3

2002-09-02 Thread Richard Tobin
yes binary support will remain.. if you need to generate new ones (?) You say this as if no-one would want to do it, but I still use programs (lisp and prolog compilers) that need to generate and read in compiled .o files, and undump themselves after reading in such files, and which are never

Re: aout support broken in gcc3

2002-09-02 Thread Richard Tobin
I think you're extremeley confused. In what way? Or are you just being rude? -- RIchard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: _waitq_remove

2002-07-10 Thread Richard Tobin
Fatal error '_waitq_remove: Not in queue' at line 350 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_priority_queue.c (errno = 0) I get the same message with xine on -STABLE each time i use it. I've had this problem for months if not years, in all recent releases of FreeBSD. It's not

Re: Alcatel Speed Touch PC

2002-05-29 Thread Richard Tobin
I wonder if there's any planned support for Alcatel Speed Touch PC (a ADSL PCI card) I think there are some linuxdrivers but what could be needed for FreeBSD support? Contact the guys listed on http://www.xsproject.org/speedtouch/ (bottom of the page). That's the Speedtouch USB, not the

Re: system and (v)fork

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Tobin
vfork(2) [...] The child code between the fork() and subsequent exec() must be carefully written because any changes to memory (including stack) or open files will also be reflected in the parent. Not open files: indeed, the main thing you typically want to do before the exec() is opening,

Re: tcsh.cat

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Tobin
PThe string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a character Pstring and shall not be validated as a pathname. I have heard on several occasions of peope using symlink(2) to atomically store some small piece of information for locking purposes. (Symlink was more reliably atomic

Re: df output ? (picobsd related)

2000-02-07 Thread Richard Tobin
ufs:fd0a set `df /` ; dev="/dev/$8" How about something like IFS=': '; set `df /`; IFS=' ' dev="/dev/$9" -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP! ATA driver (atapi DMA)..

1999-08-31 Thread Richard Tobin
lineal velocity (and hence data rate) increases from the inside (start) to the outside (end) of the disk. And consequently any CD that isn't completely full will *always* be slower than the quoted ("guaranteed not to exceed") rate. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-24 Thread Richard Tobin
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping=0 You have one of the first K6-2s off the line. There were definite problems with these, and as such, they were specially distinguished by having 66 printed on top. I have a 0x580 which has had no problems at all. I'm pretty certain it

Re: IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-04 Thread Richard Tobin
Depends on your motherboard. Try to just disable UDMA66 first. Thanks, that's what I did. It works fine (I'm using a SOYO 5EHM motherboard with an AMD K6-2/200). Performance is excellent; bonnie gives: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random--

IBM-DJNA drives on FreeBSD

1999-07-01 Thread Richard Tobin
I'm about to install FreeBSD 3.2 on a machine with an IBM-DJNA-371350 (Deskstar 22GXP 13.5GB) drive. I see that on the -current mailing list a few weeks ago you (phk) said: Try disabling "ultra DMA" in the BIOS, that seems to have worked for me on my IBM-DJNA-371800 drive. Is that relevant for

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-22 Thread Richard Tobin
People desperate for current functionality can wait, back port themselves or run current. I have taken all three options in the past :-) I agree. I have recently installed 3.1-STABLE on two machines, and in each case the ethernet drivers (xl and lnc) had been broken since 3.1 (both are now

RE: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0?

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Tobin
lnc0: Memory allocated above 16Mb limit I've just committed a fix for this. It was caused by the change to the way vm_page.c allocates memory Is this fix going into stable? (I'm a little surprised that such a change was considered appropriate for the stable branch in the first place.) --

Re: removing f2c from base distribution

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Tobin
Because Berkeley Unix has /always/ included a FORTRAN compiler. Maybe we should put Franz Lisp back in. bash-2.02$ uname -sr FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE bash-2.02$ lisp Franz Lisp, Opus 38.92 - -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in