Re: Lizard...

1999-07-08 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Adrian Filipi-Martin scribbled this message on Jul 4: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > > Now THAT is cool. > > Using the "holistic emergency shell" on vty4 when doing a network > install is more fun. At the

Re: new loader question / module question

1999-07-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ok, ok, this message is a few months old, but better late than never, right? (<-- retorical question, no need to actually answer... ;) Kelly Yancey wrote: > > I was working on a module and need to be able to pass parameters to the > module (preferably without having to compile them in). I noti

question: delay of a context - switch

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas Klein
Hi Dose anyone know how long a the kernel is busy with context switching (beetween two processes) ? Has anyone tested this yet? I estimate of about 7 usec duration for that, (on a Pentium 400) but I think that's to long. Regards Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.or

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-08 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Adrian Filipi-Martin scribbled this message on Jul 4: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > > Now THAT is cool. > > Using the "holistic emergency shell" on vty4 when doing a network > install is more fun. At the

question: delay of a context - switch

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas Klein
Hi Dose anyone know how long a the kernel is busy with context switching (beetween two processes) ? Has anyone tested this yet? I estimate of about 7 usec duration for that, (on a Pentium 400) but I think that's to long. Regards Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Tony Finch wrote: > > User Joe wrote: > > > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database > >files? > > The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, > not 1.85 as shippe

sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Running -current... I'm trying to verify SIGFPE handling and am finding some interesting issues. In the following test program, a divide by zero is done and the SIGFPE delivered. $ ./fp sig == 8 code== 0 z has the value 1.00 It seems that from the value of code should have be

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Tony Finch wrote: > > User Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? > > The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, > no

matcd on an SB16

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
I've been following a local Linux mailing list, and a couple of the users there have been trying FreeBSD ('cos I'm giving a presentation on it at a Linux user group meeting next month :-) One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met w

sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Running -current... I'm trying to verify SIGFPE handling and am finding some interesting issues. In the following test program, a divide by zero is done and the SIGFPE delivered. $ ./fp sig == 8 code== 0 z has the value 1.00 It seems that from the value of code should have b

matcd on an SB16

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
I've been following a local Linux mailing list, and a couple of the users there have been trying FreeBSD ('cos I'm giving a presentation on it at a Linux user group meeting next month :-) One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met

Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?)

1999-07-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 18:52:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything >> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider: >> >> vinum -i /dev/something volumename >> >> Where does it insert it? What if the vo

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
> From: Thomas David Rivers > > I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so > the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. > > It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports > it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have

Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?)

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything > but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider: > > vinum -i /dev/something volumename > > Where does it insert it? What if the volume has more than one plex, > which it will in the case of a mirror? OK,

Wrong comment in VM code?

1999-07-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
At the beginning of the file vm_object.c, we have the following comment: The only items within the object structure which are modified after time of creation are: reference count locked by object's lock pager routine locked by object's lock But at the end of vnode_pager_setsi

Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?)

1999-07-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 18:52:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything >> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider: >> >> vinum -i /dev/something volumename >> >> Where does it insert it? What if the v

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
From: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: julian> this is problematic. julian> you cannot add a new element before the pending firing

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
> From: Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so > the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. > > It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports > it would "have it" - and the programs that "us

Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?)

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything > but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider: > > vinum -i /dev/something volumename > > Where does it insert it? What if the volume has more than one plex, > which it will in the case of a mirror? OK

Wrong comment in VM code?

1999-07-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
At the beginning of the file vm_object.c, we have the following comment: The only items within the object structure which are modified after time of creation are: reference count locked by object's lock pager routine locked by object's lock But at the end of vnode_pager_sets

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
From: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> julian> this is problematic. julian> you cannot add

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Assar Westerlund writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > + realpat = grep_malloc(strlen(pattern) + sizeof("^(") > > > + + sizeof(")$") + 1); > > Why not just use asprintf? > > Doesn't matter, thsis code is gone in the latest

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Somers
> hi to all, > > i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on > my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am > traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to > make followings. > > - laptop dials to my desktop pc > - laptop sends some command > - desktop hangs up and dials t

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have to know anything special. I only have a

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > + realpat = grep_malloc(strlen(pattern) + sizeof("^(") > > > + + sizeof(")$") + 1); > > Why not just use asprintf? > > Doesn't m

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Somers
> hi to all, > > i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on > my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am > traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to > make followings. > > - laptop dials to my desktop pc > - laptop sends some command > - desktop hangs up and dials

dbm_* manpages for review

1999-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc, which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway. Could anyone who knows anything about DBM take a look at docs/12557 and let me know

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have to know anything special. I only have

dbm_* manpages for review

1999-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc, which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway. Could anyone who knows anything about DBM take a look at docs/12557 and let me kno

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hmm, you're right. Arguably, it could return EINVAL. Actually, the > :man page documents this behavior, although it gets the 256 number wrong. > : > : If nfds is greater than the number of open files, select() is not > guaran- > : teed to exa

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hmm, you're right. Arguably, it could return EINVAL. Actually, the :man page documents this behavior, although it gets the 256 number wrong. : : If nfds is greater than the number of open files, select() is not guaran- : teed to examine the unused file descriptors. For historical reaso

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Jul 07, 1999 at 02:33:19PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Not unless you want to blow up virtually every program that uses select!!! > > Passing an nd parameter that is greater then the current number of > descriptors is perfectly valid. It's setting a bit in the bitmask for >

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This is because initially, only 20 descriptors are allocated, and :the system is quietly ignoring any descriptors over the allocated :amount: : :if (uap->nd > p->p_fd->fd_nfiles) :uap->nd = p->p_fd->fd_nfiles; /* forgiving; slightly wrong */ : :This should be: : :

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article you write: >Hi, > > The following program returns an inconsistant rc/errno value. >Setting a bit corresponding to filedescriptor which is not open >is only found when it is less than 20. ie: This is because initially, only 20 descriptors are allocated, and the system is quietly ign

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hmm, you're right. Arguably, it could return EINVAL. Actually, the > :man page documents this behavior, although it gets the 256 number wrong. > : > : If nfds is greater than the number of open files, select() is not guaran- > : teed to exami

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hmm, you're right. Arguably, it could return EINVAL. Actually, the :man page documents this behavior, although it gets the 256 number wrong. : : If nfds is greater than the number of open files, select() is not guaran- : teed to examine the unused file descriptors. For historical reas

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with > the core team bios and pictures here. :) i knew you were not humans... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with the core team bios and pictures here. :) - Jordan > > > just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > > > perhaps ? > > > > It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look > > like

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Jul 07, 1999 at 02:33:19PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Not unless you want to blow up virtually every program that uses select!!! > > Passing an nd parameter that is greater then the current number of > descriptors is perfectly valid. It's setting a bit in the bitmask for >

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This is because initially, only 20 descriptors are allocated, and :the system is quietly ignoring any descriptors over the allocated :amount: : :if (uap->nd > p->p_fd->fd_nfiles) :uap->nd = p->p_fd->fd_nfiles; /* forgiving; slightly wrong */ : :This should be: : :

Re: Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi, > > The following program returns an inconsistant rc/errno value. >Setting a bit corresponding to filedescriptor which is not open >is only found when it is less than 20. ie: This is because initially, only 20 descriptors are allocated, and the sys

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
Sheldon, On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I have done. As far as I can tell, the submitter is saying "Yes, the > > information I was looking for was in the manual page, but it (specifically, > > that the "root" account doesn't use the "default" entry) is buried a

Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following program returns an inconsistant rc/errno value. Setting a bit corresponding to filedescriptor which is not open is only found when it is less than 20. ie: Some example output follows along with the program. This is being run on a -current system. If I open a file on fd 102

HELP!! Slice info disappeared

1999-07-08 Thread Kazukiyo UEDA
Hi hackers, I need your helps, please. I have two IDE drives. They have two slices for FreeBSD and Windows on each. Last night I tried to install Windows 95 on the first IDE drive where FreeBSD 3.1.0-Stable has installed. I executed fdisk program on MS-DOS and created an active slice to make i

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with > the core team bios and pictures here. :) i knew you were not humans... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I'm not asking any of you to prepare a resume - we're starting JUST with the core team bios and pictures here. :) - Jordan > > > just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > > > perhaps ? > > > > It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look > > like

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Gary Jennejohn
"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task >> perhaps ? > >It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look >like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of >links. :) > besides, we don't all have, or ev

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
Sheldon, On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I have done. As far as I can tell, the submitter is saying "Yes, the > > information I was looking for was in the manual page, but it (specifically, > > that the "root" account doesn't use the "default" entry) is buried

Strange select/poll behaviour [EBADF inconsistancy]

1999-07-08 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following program returns an inconsistant rc/errno value. Setting a bit corresponding to filedescriptor which is not open is only found when it is less than 20. ie: Some example output follows along with the program. This is being run on a -current system. If I open a file on fd 10

HELP!! Slice info disappeared

1999-07-08 Thread Kazukiyo UEDA
Hi hackers, I need your helps, please. I have two IDE drives. They have two slices for FreeBSD and Windows on each. Last night I tried to install Windows 95 on the first IDE drive where FreeBSD 3.1.0-Stable has installed. I executed fdisk program on MS-DOS and created an active slice to make

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > > perhaps ? > > It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look > like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of > links. :) still it can be a starting point. What success do you exp

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > perhaps ? It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of links. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "u

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Gary Jennejohn
"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task >> perhaps ? > >It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look >like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of >links. :) > besides, we don't all have, or e

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Justin C. Walker
> From: Jay Kuri > Date: 1999-07-08 11:19:01 -0700 > To: David Greenman > Subject: Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org > In-reply-to: <199907081808.laa29...@implode.root.com> > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >program... but

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-08 Thread Doug
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > > Sure it is. Some hapless newbie wanders into #FreeBDS on efnet, and asks > an already answered question. Aside from a kick, and a possible ban, > th

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Hi! I saw your posting on the HU list and was actually able to understand the Subject: line! (I guess it wasn't that difficult) It's fun to se the 'correct translation' so I could compare.. julian On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Geza Fodor wrote: > hi to all, > > i have a freebsd installed with intern

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
this is problematic. you cannot add a new element before the pending firing because you can't tell how far into the present trigger you are. On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:46:38 -0700 (PDT), > > Julian Elischer

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> >program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a > >distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel > >to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source > >about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits... >

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread David Greenman
>> >However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a >> >different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't >> >do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. > > Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the >in

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > > perhaps ? > > It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look > like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of > links. :) still it can be a starting point. What success do you ex

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-08 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
Nope, I did read the docs, hence the patch to the manpage to make it stand out more clearly. I still am of the opinion that "default" should mean "default" for everyone. AFIK, there are no other fields in passwd that have different interpretations/defaults depending upon the UID. This i

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> > However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a > >different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't > >do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the instal

mbuf shortages

1999-07-08 Thread Jayanth Vijayaraghavan
If a system runs out of mbufs can memory be claimed from elsewhere or is the system pretty much dead especially for networking related allocations. jayanth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: implementing a fs on a raw partition

1999-07-08 Thread Alton, Matthew
If someone in the FS dept. would draw up a broad outline for FS implementation I hereby volunteer to flesh it out thoroughly and donate the end-product docs to the FreeBSD project. I am a professional UNIX (AIX/SOLARIS) programmer and fairly clueful kernel source peruser and tweaker, fully capable

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> just collecting URLs for people home pages might be an easier task > perhaps ? It needs to look better than that. A list of URL's would not look like a staff page, it would look like a cheesy, uninteresting page of links. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Justin C. Walker
> From: Jay Kuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1999-07-08 11:19:01 -0700 > To: David Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >program..

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-08 Thread Doug
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > > Sure it is. Some hapless newbie wanders into #FreeBDS on efnet, and asks > an already answered question. Aside from a kick, and a possible ban, > t

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Hi! I saw your posting on the HU list and was actually able to understand the Subject: line! (I guess it wasn't that difficult) It's fun to se the 'correct translation' so I could compare.. julian On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Geza Fodor wrote: > hi to all, > > i have a freebsd installed with inter

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
this is problematic. you cannot add a new element before the pending firing because you can't tell how far into the present trigger you are. On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:46:38 -0700 (PDT), > > Julian Elischer

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> >program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a > >distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel > >to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source > >about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits...

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread David Greenman
>> >However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a >> >different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't >> >do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. > > Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the >i

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-08 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
Nope, I did read the docs, hence the patch to the manpage to make it stand out more clearly. I still am of the opinion that "default" should mean "default" for everyone. AFIK, there are no other fields in passwd that have different interpretations/defaults depending upon the UID. This

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> > However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a > >different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't > >do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the insta

mbuf shortages

1999-07-08 Thread Jayanth Vijayaraghavan
If a system runs out of mbufs can memory be claimed from elsewhere or is the system pretty much dead especially for networking related allocations. jayanth To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: implementing a fs on a raw partition

1999-07-08 Thread Alton, Matthew
If someone in the FS dept. would draw up a broad outline for FS implementation I hereby volunteer to flesh it out thoroughly and donate the end-product docs to the FreeBSD project. I am a professional UNIX (AIX/SOLARIS) programmer and fairly clueful kernel source peruser and tweaker, fully capabl

Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:yeah I remembered how it all worked after I wrote that.. :You'd think they'd eventually get the idea of letting the kernel have it's :own 'cr3' and some TLBs eh? : :listenning intel? This is intel we are talking about. Their mmu/cache technology is always a few years behind the times.

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has only > a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that would be > shared between programs... All this while Windows has a very interesting > clipboard system tha

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this for pentium ff. machines. In message <199907081527.baa04...@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 >>dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a fi

/etc/skel vs /usr/share/skel

1999-07-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Do we still need /etc/skel in the hier(7) manpage and in BSD.root.dist? It looks to me like an hysterical raisin that should be taken out and shot. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Bruce Evans
>dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 >dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, >dfr> then it sounds very good. The idea of taking 6000+ interrupts/sec made me >dfr> uneasy, even though most would return without doing any

Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:yeah I remembered how it all worked after I wrote that.. :You'd think they'd eventually get the idea of letting the kernel have it's :own 'cr3' and some TLBs eh? : :listenning intel? This is intel we are talking about. Their mmu/cache technology is always a few years behind the times.

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has only > a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that would be > shared between programs... All this while Windows has a very interesting > clipboard system th

/etc/skel vs /usr/share/skel

1999-07-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Do we still need /etc/skel in the hier(7) manpage and in BSD.root.dist? It looks to me like an hysterical raisin that should be taken out and shot. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Kiakas
You might also want to look a GNUstep ( www.gnustep.org ) as well. stef You wrote: > > - Whether a similar solution already exists in the freenix world > > (perhaps in Linux?) > > Might want to look into the various distributed object models being > considered (don't both the KDE and GNOME people

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Kiakas
You might also want to look a GNUstep ( www.gnustep.org ) as well. stef You wrote: > > - Whether a similar solution already exists in the freenix world > > (perhaps in Linux?) > > Might want to look into the various distributed object models being > considered (don't both the KDE and GNOME peopl

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunderNew Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:00:24 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson said: >> There is one problem in this method. acquire_timer0() is only implemented >> for i386. We would need to write something equivalent for alpha... dfr> The timer hardware on the alpha is essentially the same but the interrupts dfr> are

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunderNew Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:00:24 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> There is one problem in this method. acquire_timer0() is only implemented >> for i386. We would need to write something equivalent for alpha... dfr> The timer hardware on the alpha is essentially the same but the

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:54:42 +0100 (BST), > Doug Rabson said: > > dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 > dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, > dfr> then it sounds very

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello! > > I am new to FreeBSD and Unix, but not new to programming and TCP/IP. > > I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has > only a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that > would be shared bet

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:54:42 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson said: dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, dfr> then it sounds very good. The idea of taking 6000+ interrupts/sec made me d

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
Geza Fodor wrote: > i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on > my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am > traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to > make followings. You should be able to write some scripts which do this; theoretically, the "some commands

need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Geza Fodor
hi to all, i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to make followings. - laptop dials to my desktop pc - laptop sends some command - desktop hangs up and dials to local isp - laptop

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunderNew Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:54:42 +0100 (BST), > Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 > dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, > dfr>

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello! > > I am new to FreeBSD and Unix, but not new to programming and TCP/IP. > > I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has > only a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that > would be shared be

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:46:38 -0700 (PDT), > Julian Elischer said: > > julian> With your scheme the clock needs to be always running at elevated > speed. > julian> Possibly you might have a startup routine that turns on the elevated > julian> frequen

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:54:42 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, dfr> then it sounds very good. The idea of taking 6000+ inte

Re: need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
Geza Fodor wrote: > i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on > my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am > traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to > make followings. You should be able to write some scripts which do this; theoretically, the "some commands

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:03:10 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > I have done. As far as I can tell, the submitter is saying "Yes, the > information I was looking for was in the manual page, but it (specifically, > that the "root" account doesn't use the "default" entry) is buried as > a throw away comm

need a better solution as callback

1999-07-08 Thread Geza Fodor
hi to all, i have a freebsd installed with internet connection on my desktop pc and on my laptop as well. because i am traveling a lot between two countries, i'd like to make followings. - laptop dials to my desktop pc - laptop sends some command - desktop hangs up and dials to local isp - lapto

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-08 Thread Alan Barrett
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote: > The FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD manpage for grep says this: > > Grep understands two different versions of regular expression > syntax: ``basic'' and ``extended.'' In GNU grep, there is > no difference in available functionality u

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