Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alfred Perlstein writes: > DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd > since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the > loopback... I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago (there were places where make world would bomb because chflags do

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
John-Mark Gurney writes: > Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > instead of service names? > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a > service name... it should be very easy to make th

confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ok: #define nfsm_srvmtofh(f) \ { int fhlen = NFSX_V3FH; \ if (nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) { \ nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_UNSIGNED); \ fhlen = fxdr_unsigned(int, *tl); \ if (fhlen == 0) { \

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > port numbers. Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services not already mentioned in that file? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Boris Popov
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote: > > > > Sometimes it would be handy to pass a commandline > > to a kld, preloaded modules already support > > arguments. kldload(2) unfortunately has only > > the pathname.ko argument. > >Is this really a pr

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John-Mark Gurney writes: > > Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: > > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > > instead of service names? > > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a > > service nam

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn writes: > On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > > port numbers. > Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services > not already mentioned in that file? Allow me to r

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:19:01 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services > > not already mentioned in that file? > > Allow me to re-quote the message I answered: > > > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel Eischen writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > > port numbers. > Are you sure this is what you want? Yes. > It may allow an application to > use a port number that would otherwise b

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:00:15 MST, Doug wrote: > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > instead of service names? > > Errr... while that may be of value to someone, it has nothing to > do with the issue Ben and I were discussing. Yes yes. I'm not trying to

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:27:44 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I don't see in what way an application could break if getservbyname() > suddenly accepted numeric port specifications. It won't ``stop working > as intended'', it'll keep on working as it always used to, plus a > little more. My applic

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > It may allow an application to > > use a port number that would otherwise be invalid. > > Please elaborate. I don't have any specific applications in mind :) But suppose an application (for whatever reason) only wants to allow se

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > } \ > if (fhlen != 0) { \ > nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_V3FH); \ > bcopy((caddr_t)tl, (caddr_t)(f), NFSX_V3FH); \ > if ((nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) == 0

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Daniel Eischen wrote: > Are you also going to allow getservbyport to lookup names? Stupid question. This isn't possible since getservbyport takes an int argument. Dan Eischen eisc...@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:30:32 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Are you also going to allow getservbyport to lookup names? And how are you going to squish a name into an int? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of t

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn writes: > If we fix this in inetd, we get what we want. If we fix this in > getservbyport() we may get something that we don't want, namely > applications that relay on the existing behaviour of the function stop > working as intended. I don't see in what way an application could br

A Proposal for a Consumers' Private Network with Providers

1999-08-02 Thread Richard Auld
Aug. 2, 1999. Dear Sir or Ms: This notification is being sent to a selected group of consumer-oriented organizations and individuals that I believe will be interested, and that I hope can help with advice on how best to proceed with a proposal that I feel certain can be of very great benef

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:John-Mark Gurney writes: :> Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: :> > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers :> > instead of service names? :> I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a :> service name... it should be very easy to

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-08-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:17:54AM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <37a3b701.851df...@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > > : Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the > > man > > : pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Alfred Perlstein writes: :> DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd :> since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the :> loopback... : :I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago (there were :places where make world would bomb because ch

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: : :> } \ :> if (fhlen != 0) { \ :> nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_V3FH); \ :> bcopy((caddr_t)tl, (caddr_t)(f), NFSX_V3FH); \ :> if ((nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) ==

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
::> it then rewinds the mbuf pointers (i think) because of the ::> over "dissection" above. ::> --- ::> ::> why does it do the copy, then rewind it, it seems like it knows ::> it's doing something wrong and instead of fixing it, it just ::> compensates after the fact. :: ::yes, replying to my

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:25:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >(there were > places where make world would bomb because chflags doesn't work on [...] > (check the logs for Makefiles that use > chflags).

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon writes: > The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. No, I fixed them in february or march. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek writes: > Set INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT=:S/schg/,/ to remove these when doing a make > world, if needed. Please try to understand what the issue is before butting in. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-h

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon writes: :> The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. : :No, I fixed them in february or march. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. I'm running a buildworld te

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon writes: > Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. I'm happy to hear that, since NFSv3 is significantly faster than NFSv2 on loopback mounts :) > I'm running a buildworld test right now with /usr/src and /usr/obj both > on NFSv3 localhost mo

FW: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS

1999-08-02 Thread Charles Randall
Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions. Charles -Original Message- From: Charles Randall [mailto:crand...@matchlogic.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:55 AM To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS I've been runnin

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message > Juha Nurmela writes: > : Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would > : be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet > : been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep > : from attach an

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <37a5c680.3ca1d...@newsguy.com> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : Modules are not just drivers. Forget about drivers, and try again. : :-) But the generic mechanism extends beyond just drivers :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Allow me to re-quote the message I answered: : : > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a : > service name... I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is an excellent idea! Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to major

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Daniel Eischen writes: : > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: : > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts : > > port numbers. : > Are you sure this is what you want? I'm 100% positive that I want this. : >

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > ::> it then rewinds the mbuf pointers (i think) because of the > ::> over "dissection" above. > ::> --- > ::> > ::> why does it do the copy, then rewind it, it seems like it knows > ::> it's doing something wrong and instead of fixing it, it just

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > I say that I don't care if it allows this. In fact, I want to be able > to do things like that... Copying the telnet line and changing the first word to 'http' does wonders for being to access machines from inside a school district's firewall. Choosing

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The whole file needs some documentation. :) :I stared at that for so long wondering why the heck it was doing that. NFS is the worst-documented code in the kernel, VFS is second-worst. Without commit privs, documenting existing code eats too much of my time I'm afraid. With com

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message Bill Fumerola writes: : Copying the telnet line and changing the first word to 'http' does wonders : for being to access machines from inside a school district's firewall. What if the service has no name? : Choosing ports by number would be nice, however the same objections Matt : ha

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > I don't think we should change getportbyname. If the getportbyname > fails, see if a strtol returns a number, and if so use that. I don't > see what is so hard about doing that. I agree. The change should be made in inetd, not in getportbyname() > If so

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Peter Wemm
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > ::> it then rewinds the mbuf pointers (i think) because of the > > ::> over "dissection" above. > > ::> --- > > ::> > > ::> why does it do the copy, then rewind it, it seems like it knows > > ::> it's doing something

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message Bill Fumerola writes: : I agree. The change should be made in inetd, not in getportbyname() Or getservbyname (which is really what you'd want to change). I have patches to inetd that I've enclosed here. They are gorss, but the code itself doesn't lend itself to non-gross patches w/o

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon writes: :> Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. : :I'm happy to hear that, since NFSv3 is significantly faster than NFSv2 :on loopback mounts :) : :> I'm running a buildworld test right now with /usr/src and /usr/obj both :> on NFSv3 loca

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <37a5c680.3ca1d...@newsguy.com> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : Modules are not just drivers. Forget about drivers, and try again. > : :-) > > But the generic mechanism extends beyond just drivers :-) Ah, I recall now. Something similar to the way X works, with a

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > http://big.endian.org/~bright/freebsd/patches/nfsm_subs.diff > > > > This is a patch that Peter Wemm proposed however he had this: > > > > ! if (fhlen < NFSX_V3FH)

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Right now it seems we're generating 8 bytes of fsid and 12 (padded to 16) :bytes of handle data in the common case for a total of 24 bytes of filehandle. :Then we pad that to 32 bytes for V2 or 64 bytes for V3, with random crud. :Then we copy this around, store it all in memory, transmit it over t

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199908021754.daa25...@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Darren Reed writes: : Why not just use the changes NetBSD made to their inetd ~6 years ago ? Didn't know about them? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messag

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Doug
On 2 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd > > since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the > > loopback... > > I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago H

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <37a5c680.3ca1d...@newsguy.com> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > > : Modules are not just drivers. Forget about drivers, and try again. > > : :-) > > > > But the generic mechanism extends beyond just drivers :-) > >

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Mike Smith
> > ok: > > #define nfsm_srvmtofh(f) \ > { int fhlen = NFSX_V3FH; \ > if (nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) { \ > nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_UNSIGNED); \ > fhlen = fxdr_unsigned(int, *tl); \ > if (fhlen == 0) {

Initio INI-* SCSI card support

1999-08-02 Thread David O'Brien
Has anybody taken a look at the FreeBSD driver source at http://www.initio.com/source.zip for the INI-* cards? Is this something we should import into -CURRENT? -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: Initio INI-* SCSI card support

1999-08-02 Thread Guy Helmer
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > Has anybody taken a look at the FreeBSD driver source at > http://www.initio.com/source.zip for the INI-* cards? Is this something > we should import into -CURRENT? It would be handy for me if it were brought in. FWIW, I'm using this driver with an SII

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Assar Westerlund
Warner Losh writes: > Or getservbyname (which is really what you'd want to change). I have > patches to inetd that I've enclosed here. They are gorss, but the > code itself doesn't lend itself to non-gross patches w/o some rework, > which I was too lazy to do this morning. Or you might as well

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
In message <37a3b701.851df...@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: >Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? In the base system, ipfilter et al (ie ipsend(1)), tcpdump, rbootd, rarpd and dhcp. Someone who's got a complete set of ports might like to comment on what ports need bpf. Of these, we

Jail syscalls

1999-08-02 Thread Sebastien GIORIA
Hi guys, I'm in the process of evaluating (next month) some box who made the same that jail syscall but this is linux boxes :-( or Solaris boxes. So, If I can make a FreeBSD-STABLE (3.X box) working with jail in the competition, I've got a good point for my boss. We are currently working wit

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Somers
dil...@apollo.backplane.com said: > :The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > :port numbers. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no > > > If we were to depend on this, it would break code compatibility with > other UNIXes for no good reason.

Re: Initio INI-* SCSI card support

1999-08-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Guy Helmer wrote... > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Has anybody taken a look at the FreeBSD driver source at > > http://www.initio.com/source.zip for the INI-* cards? Is this something > > we should import into -CURRENT? > > It would be handy for me if it were brought in. FWIW,

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several :months, hopefully it still works :-) My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as well. I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write this patch, refer bac

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > @@ -832,15 +833,21 @@ > if (!sep->se_rpc) { > sp = getservbyname(sep->se_service, sep->se_proto); > if (sp == 0) { > + if ((p = strtol(sep->se_service, > + (char **NULL),

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Now on to the NFSv2 fhlen patch testing. I haven't run v2 in several > :months, hopefully it still works :-) > > My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as > well. > > I've included the patch again for ref

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all > numeric, getservbyname(). Can't you have all numeric service names? > David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in th

Re: FW: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS

1999-08-02 Thread Mike Smith
> Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions. The lnc driver is not the most wonderful; you might want to talk to Paul Richards (p...@freebsd.org) about this. > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: Charles Randall [mailto:crand...@matchlogic.com] > Sent: Friday, Ju

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> My buildworld using the NFSv2 file handle length patch succeeded as :> well. :> :> I've included the patch again for reference. (Note: I didn't write :> this patch, refer back to the thread for that info). :> :> -Matt : :any perci

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199908022217.xaa02...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all : numeric, getservbyname(). I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services that were all numbers. Traditionally, this is hwo th

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Sebastien GIORIA: > My process decision is in the next 6 months, so if some > guys from core (particuliary PHK; if I remenber this is > the responsible of the jail subsystem). It will probably not be very easy putting this into 3.x, considering the number of files concerned although

Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
The people who I work for were about to junk a bunch of 6 year old disks when I snaffled them. Among them were 4 DEC DSP5400S (3.8GB each), with a nice external case. These disks had been doing duty on a boat carrying out seismic surveys, attached to misc. Sun workstations. These are typical of

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 11:11:39 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > The people who I work for were about to junk a bunch of 6 year old disks when > I snaffled them. Among them were 4 DEC DSP5400S (3.8GB each), with a nice > external case. These disks had been

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
> Did you try 'disklabel -w da0 auto'? Yup - it also complained. > No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire > stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the > chances are higher that you can perform the transfer with only a > single I/O. Ev

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-02 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > It will probably not be very easy putting this into 3.x, considering the > number of files concerned although the number of lines changed is not that > big. Jail is in RELENG_3 > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:35:54PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 11:11:39 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior > Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire > stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-02 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the > > man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is > > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev.

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:16:06PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire > > stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the > > chances are higher that you can perform th

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Brian F. Feldman: > Jail is in RELENG_3 Not according to the CVS logs which lists kern_jail.c only for CURRENT. === File: kern_jail.c Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.3 Fri Apr 30 06:51:51 1999

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-02 Thread Wes Peters
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: > > Wes Peters writes: > > > > > NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) > > > > It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of the NetBSD lists > > once it's near completio

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Somers
> In message <199908022217.xaa02...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: > : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all > : numeric, getservbyname(). > > I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services > that were all numbers. Traditionally, th

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Brian Somers
> In some email I received from Brian Somers, sie wrote: > [.] > > Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all > > numeric, getservbyname(). > > No, the patch was correct. Not in my book - see my other posting :] -- Brian

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:16:06PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer > PGS Tensor Perth wrote: >> >>> No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire >>> stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199908030624.haa00...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Exactly - ditto for gethostbyname(). In the case of gethostbyname(), : I believe that domain names can't have a number as the first : character - I would have thought this idea should follow through with : services.

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > instead of service names? > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a > service name... it should be

confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ok: #define nfsm_srvmtofh(f) \ { int fhlen = NFSX_V3FH; \ if (nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) { \ nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_UNSIGNED); \ fhlen = fxdr_unsigned(int, *tl); \ if (fhlen == 0) { \

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > port numbers. Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services not already mentioned in that file? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-02 Thread Boris Popov
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote: > > > > Sometimes it would be handy to pass a commandline > > to a kld, preloaded modules already support > > arguments. kldload(2) unfortunately has only > > the pathname.ko argument. > >Is this really a p

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: > > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > > instead of service names? > > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > > port numbers. > Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services > not already mentioned in that

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:19:01 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services > > not already mentioned in that file? > > Allow me to re-quote the message I answered: > > > I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts > > port numbers. > Are you sure this is what you want? Yes. > It may allow an application to > use a port number th

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:00:15 MST, Doug wrote: > > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers > > instead of service names? > > Errr... while that may be of value to someone, it has nothing to > do with the issue Ben and I were discussing. Yes yes. I'm not trying t

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 02 Aug 1999 13:27:44 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I don't see in what way an application could break if getservbyname() > suddenly accepted numeric port specifications. It won't ``stop working > as intended'', it'll keep on working as it always used to, plus a > little more. My appli

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > It may allow an application to > > use a port number that would otherwise be invalid. > > Please elaborate. I don't have any specific applications in mind :) But suppose an application (for whatever reason) only wants to allow s

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > } \ > if (fhlen != 0) { \ > nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_V3FH); \ > bcopy((caddr_t)tl, (caddr_t)(f), NFSX_V3FH); \ > if ((nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) ==

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Eischen
Daniel Eischen wrote: > Are you also going to allow getservbyport to lookup names? Stupid question. This isn't possible since getservbyport takes an int argument. Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 07:30:32 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Are you also going to allow getservbyport to lookup names? And how are you going to squish a name into an int? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we fix this in inetd, we get what we want. If we fix this in > getservbyport() we may get something that we don't want, namely > applications that relay on the existing behaviour of the function stop > working as intended. I don't see in what way an

A Proposal for a Consumers' Private Network with Providers

1999-08-02 Thread Richard Auld
Aug. 2, 1999. Dear Sir or Ms:     This notification is being sent to a selected group of consumer-oriented organizations and individuals that I believe will be interested, and that I hope can help with advice on how best to proceed with a proposal that I feel certain can be of very great b

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1: :> > Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers :> > instead of service names? :> I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a :> service name... it sho

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-08-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:17:54AM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: > > : Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man > > : pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh?

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> DES: can you elaborate? you think it may cause problems with amd :> since it's like an NFS buffer isn't it and would work over the :> loopback... : :I used loopback mounts to test NFS make worlds a while ago (there were :places where make world w

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: : :> } \ :> if (fhlen != 0) { \ :> nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_V3FH); \ :> bcopy((caddr_t)tl, (caddr_t)(f), NFSX_V3FH); \ :> if ((nfsd->nd_flag & ND_NFSV3) =

Re: confusion about nfsm_srvmtofh bad behavior?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
::> it then rewinds the mbuf pointers (i think) because of the ::> over "dissection" above. ::> --- ::> ::> why does it do the copy, then rewind it, it seems like it knows ::> it's doing something wrong and instead of fixing it, it just ::> compensates after the fact. :: ::yes, replying to my

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:25:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >(there were > places where make world would bomb because chflags doesn't work on [...] > (check the logs for Makefiles that use > chflags).

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. No, I fixed them in february or march. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in th

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Set INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT=:S/schg/,/ to remove these when doing a make > world, if needed. Please try to understand what the issue is before butting in. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. : :No, I fixed them in february or march. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, then there is a real good chance localhost mounts will work now. I

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