questing: delay of a context - switch

1999-06-29 Thread Thomas Klein
Hi Dose anyone know how long a the kernel is buisy with context switching (beetween two processes) ? Has anyone testet this yet? I have made estimate of 7 usec duration for that, (on a Pentium 400) but I think that's to long. Regards Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 1:38 pm +1000 30/6/99, Peter Jeremy wrote: >[...] >Whilst we're at it, how about extending `-x' to print out the packet >in ASCII and hex (ala hd(1)). I know the code includes the statement > > * (BTW, please don't send us patches to print the packet out in ascii) > >but I find this featu

questing: delay of a context - switch

1999-06-29 Thread Thomas Klein
Hi Dose anyone know how long a the kernel is buisy with context switching (beetween two processes) ? Has anyone testet this yet? I have made estimate of 7 usec duration for that, (on a Pentium 400) but I think that's to long. Regards Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freeb

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 1:38 pm +1000 30/6/99, Peter Jeremy wrote: >[...] >Whilst we're at it, how about extending `-x' to print out the packet >in ASCII and hex (ala hd(1)). I know the code includes the statement > > * (BTW, please don't send us patches to print the packet out in ascii) > >but I find this featur

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >> >> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the >> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and >> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:56:37 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >> >> That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the >> composition of address space) is described in "The Design and >> Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating S

Re: bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hey guys. Sorry, I've been busy messing with Kirk's locking code. Yes, David found a critical bug all right! When I changed the return(0); that had previously been in this section of code to a 'goto nfsmout', I forgot to set error = 0. -M

Re: bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hey guys. Sorry, I've been busy messing with Kirk's locking code. Yes, David found a critical bug all right! When I changed the return(0); that had previously been in this section of code to a 'goto nfsmout', I forgot to set error = 0. -Ma

fix for bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
New full 3.x relative patch at: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/julian/nfs-3.diffs On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > There is a small by critical error in the latest patches which causes the > server to never transmit a response packet back to the client in certain > conditions on a nfs cr

fix for bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
New full 3.x relative patch at: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/julian/nfs-3.diffs On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > There is a small by critical error in the latest patches which causes the > server to never transmit a response packet back to the client in certain > conditions on a nfs cre

Re: bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Matt, If you agree with this patch to your patch I'll commit the NFS fixes to 3.x (I'll also add this change to the 4.0 version.) *** hold/nfs_serv.c Tue Jun 22 13:37:17 1999 --- nfs_serv.c Tue Jun 29 20:42:44 1999 *** *** 1580,1585 --- 1580,1586 if (error) {

Re: bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Matt, If you agree with this patch to your patch I'll commit the NFS fixes to 3.x (I'll also add this change to the 4.0 version.) *** hold/nfs_serv.c Tue Jun 22 13:37:17 1999 --- nfs_serv.c Tue Jun 29 20:42:44 1999 *** *** 1580,1585 --- 1580,1586 if (error) {

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
Bill Fumerola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb >patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed >to the tcpdump mailing list and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to tcpdump(1). I also think it's a good idea. Judging fr

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
Bill Fumerola wrote: >Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb >patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed >to the tcpdump mailing list and b...@freebsd.org) to tcpdump(1). I also think it's a good idea. Judging from what has happened

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Time for a main() man page? Where would it go? Section 2, 3, or 9? >Hmm... I'd support that. I believe the page needs to be tied to exec (ala setjmp/longjmp), which means it either ties to execve(2) or exec*(3). Note that execve(2) already includes a ref

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
Wes Peters wrote: >Time for a main() man page? Where would it go? Section 2, 3, or 9? >Hmm... I'd support that. I believe the page needs to be tied to exec (ala setjmp/longjmp), which means it either ties to execve(2) or exec*(3). Note that execve(2) already includes a reference to the callin

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
yes! they've been submitted to the tcpdump folks many times. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [bcc to committers, replys to hackers] > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Julian Elischer
yes! they've been submitted to the tcpdump folks many times. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [bcc to committers, replys to hackers] > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Miguel Gilly wrote: > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capa

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Miguel Gilly wrote: > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capab

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
%> Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP %> requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a %> failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the "Beowulf" %> software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this. %I have looked into the

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
%> Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP %> requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a %> failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the "Beowulf" %> software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this. %I have looked into the

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: I'm also will be happy to see NCP protocol dumps, but probably, it isn't a high priority task. > > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > > www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there for FreeBSD > > (exc

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: I'm also will be happy to see NCP protocol dumps, but probably, it isn't a high priority task. > > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > > www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there for FreeBSD > > (exce

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 26-Jun-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:02:00 MST, Aaron Smith wrote: >> with it. i didn't realize there was an extension already in place -- i >> should have checked the man page over when i saw sheldon's first message >> about "wait/10/10/nowrap". > > There isn't. It's a pro

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 26-Jun-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:02:00 MST, Aaron Smith wrote: >> with it. i didn't realize there was an extension already in place -- i >> should have checked the man page over when i saw sheldon's first message >> about "wait/10/10/nowrap". > > There isn't. It's a prop

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread David E. Cross
> Miguel Gilly wrote: > > > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > > clustering cap

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread David E. Cross
> Miguel Gilly wrote: > > > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > > clustering capa

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Wes Peters
Miguel Gilly wrote: > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capabilities for ISP appl

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Wes Peters
Miguel Gilly wrote: > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capabilities for ISP appli

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 06:54:06PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) > > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > ww

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 06:54:06PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) > > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > www

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there for FreeBSD > (except for samba itself). It makes tcpdump understand SMB packets (header structure, etc). See the tcpdump-smb

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to > www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there for FreeBSD > (except for samba itself). It makes tcpdump understand SMB packets (header structure, etc). See the tcpdump-smb p

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 06:54:06PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there f

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 06:54:06PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there fo

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [bcc to committers, replys to hackers] > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed > to the tcpdump mailing list and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to tcpdump

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [bcc to committers, replys to hackers] > > Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb > patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed > to the tcpdump mailing list and b...@freebsd.org) to tcpdump(1

tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bill Fumerola
[bcc to committers, replys to hackers] Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed to the tcpdump mailing list and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to tcpdump(1). Comments? - bill fumerola - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Bill Fumerola
[bcc to committers, replys to hackers] Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed to the tcpdump mailing list and b...@freebsd.org) to tcpdump(1). Comments? - bill fumerola - bi...@chc-chimes.co

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > David > And the dump showsnothing: rally3# gdb -k GNU gdb 4.18 Copyr

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > David > And the dump showsnothing: rally3# gdb -k GNU gdb 4.18 Copyri

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Iani Brankov
David Scheidt wrote: [snip] > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs I know that's not the right mail list, but i feel (not sure) the fdc driver has probems some

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Iani Brankov
David Scheidt wrote: [snip] > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs I know that's not the right mail list, but i feel (not sure) the fdc driver has probems somet

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Chris Shenton
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +, "Miguel Gilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Miguel> I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer Miguel> redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Miguel> Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Miguel> Unix cluster

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Chris Shenton
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +, "Miguel Gilly" said: Miguel> I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer Miguel> redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Miguel> Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Miguel> Unix cluster over the expensive

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Travis Cole wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I just reproduced this on a system running 4.0-CURRENT from about > Sun Jun 27 01:12:42 PDT > > I got a ton of these errors in dmesg and

Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Miguel Gilly
Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More http://www.bonsai-studio.com Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear Sirs, I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Nowadays I feel that it is a f

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Travis Cole wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I just reproduced this on a system running 4.0-CURRENT from about > Sun Jun 27 01:12:42 PDT > > I got a ton of these errors in dmesg and /

Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Miguel Gilly
Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More http://www.bonsai-studio.com Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear Sirs, I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Nowadays I feel that it is a fa

DVD-ram

1999-06-29 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this should be on -scsi Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do it under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read/write the raw device. Currently the drive is recognized

DVD-ram

1999-06-29 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this should be on -scsi Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do it under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read/write the raw device. Currently the drive is recognized

Re: Improving the Unix API

1999-06-29 Thread Allen Briggs
> > Well, I'd argue that Berkeley defined a bunch of VFS attributes, and > > then implemented them natively in UFS and LFS; other non-native > > filesystems have to map their concepts of other file attributes (e.g., > > dates, permissions, etc.,) into the native VFS concepts. > > Right. Exce

bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread David E. Cross
There is a small by critical error in the latest patches which causes the server to never transmit a response packet back to the client in certain conditions on a nfs create RPC. Below is the updated NFS3 patch. If jullian could take this for review and place it at the "official" unoffical URL

bug in latests NFS patches for -stable

1999-06-29 Thread David E. Cross
There is a small by critical error in the latest patches which causes the server to never transmit a response packet back to the client in certain conditions on a nfs create RPC. Below is the updated NFS3 patch. If jullian could take this for review and place it at the "official" unoffical URL i

A portable version of 'sar'

1999-06-29 Thread Evan Leibovitch
In an attempt to improve the abiility of free-software operating systems' ability to report on their performance, I (and some other people at my company, Starnix) have started a project to create an open version of the System V program "sar". Furthermore, we've been able to convince SCO -- curre

A portable version of 'sar'

1999-06-29 Thread Evan Leibovitch
In an attempt to improve the abiility of free-software operating systems' ability to report on their performance, I (and some other people at my company, Starnix) have started a project to create an open version of the System V program "sar". Furthermore, we've been able to convince SCO -- curren

dlopen returns non NULL

1999-06-29 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! in the following code `dlopen' returns NULL on the first iteration (because g() is not defined) -- it's ok but on the second iteration `dlopen' returns "valid" dlh I need the code like this to load some functions dynamically. The code below shows that it's unable to ensure that all th

dlopen returns non NULL

1999-06-29 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! in the following code `dlopen' returns NULL on the first iteration (because g() is not defined) -- it's ok but on the second iteration `dlopen' returns "valid" dlh I need the code like this to load some functions dynamically. The code below shows that it's unable to ensure that all the

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the > composition of address space) is described in "The Design and > Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things > are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (espe

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the > composition of address space) is described in "The Design and > Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things > are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (espec

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:49:04 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: >>> What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack. >> >> As I said, at the top. >> >>> and if

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:49:04 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: >>> What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack. >> >> As I said, at the top. >> >>> and if a

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: > > What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack. > > As I said, at the top. > > > and if anywhere I can find some data, on the exact compisoition of > > the stcak

Re: environment strings

1999-06-29 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: > > What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack. > > As I said, at the top. > > > and if anywhere I can find some data, on the exact compisoition of > > the stcak,

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Mark wrote: > For now, I'm looking for an explanation of what is error is and where it > may be coming from. I found one question very similar to this in the > archive, but alas, there was no reply. You didn't post any information which might help a developer track down you

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Mark wrote: > For now, I'm looking for an explanation of what is error is and where it > may be coming from. I found one question very similar to this in the > archive, but alas, there was no reply. You didn't post any information which might help a developer track down your

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Travis Cole
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > Suppose you have a *write-protected* DOS floppy and you do: > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy <-- this is OK > > > > # cp somefile /floppy <-- a lot of error messages > > >

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Travis Cole
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > Suppose you have a *write-protected* DOS floppy and you do: > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy <-- this is OK > > > > # cp somefile /floppy <-- a lot of error messages > > > >