Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread Sean Eric Fagan
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: It sounds to me that what you really want are the semantics of a symbolic link and not the semantics of a hard link. Is it just me, or does it seem as if the pathname of the executable being stored as a virtual symlink

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread David Malone
Err... I don't see the problem. The permissions of the hardlink will be different, so the user might be able to see the "code", but won't be able to run the suid (because the hardlink won't have the suid bit set). Suid bit is stored in the inode, not the directory entry, so it will be set.

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread David Malone
You can make hard links to No, you cannot. Yes you can - you just need to make sure the target directory is on the same filesystem as the *original* file. 11:30:gonzo 9% cp /bin/sleep /tmp 11:30:gonzo 10% ls -l /tmp/sleep* -r-xr-xr-x 1 dwmalone wheel 45224 Nov 7 11:30 /tmp/sleep

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-11-07 Thread Jos Backus
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:44:51PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Actually, use fstat to check against ftpd, and lockf between the scripts. :-) Good idea :) I think that I'll do just that. Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack."

Re: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that 'fsck -py' ignores the 'p' and will fsck every time, even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR with a 'fix' to fsck. 'fsck -p || fsck -y' should do the trick. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

ARM support

1999-11-07 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
To whoever that may interest, I've now got a nearly working freebsd loader for the NetWinder. It currently only uses the serial console and miss internal hard driver support but work is underway for both these issues. I'm making some progress too in getting world to compile but work in this area

Re: ARM support

1999-11-07 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: To whoever that may interest, I've now got a nearly working freebsd loader for the NetWinder. It currently only uses the serial console and miss internal hard driver support but work is underway for both these issues. I'm making some progress

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: I don't, but what I like doesn't matter, it seems -- Warner knows everything. So I'm sure he knows better than I do the overhead this will impose, and the impracticality in a general system. Unix really isn't set up to carry around 'official

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: There are ways that the user can see the code to execute it, but not read it normally. procfs breaches this inability to read the file. Also, there are many related problems which make a proper fix for this that is more complicated than removing

Re: ARM support

1999-11-07 Thread Mike Smith
To whoever that may interest, I've now got a nearly working freebsd loader for the NetWinder. It currently only uses the serial console and miss internal hard driver support but work is underway for both these issues. Cool! Does the NetWinder use OpenFirmware, or some other firmware

Re: ARM support

1999-11-07 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
Mike Smith wrote: To whoever that may interest, I've now got a nearly working freebsd loader for the NetWinder. It currently only uses the serial console and miss internal hard driver support but work is underway for both these issues. Cool! Does the NetWinder use OpenFirmware, or

Re: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-11-07 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:57:54PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that 'fsck -py' ignores the 'p' and will fsck every time, even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR with a 'fix' to fsck. 'fsck -p ||

SMP changes from 3.0 to 3.3?

1999-11-07 Thread Travis Cole
At work we have 18 or so web servers runing FreeBSD 3.0 on daul PIIs. When they see very high loads (~300+) the SMP starts do get confused and things randomly fail. Were there signifigant SMP changes from 3.0-RELEASE to 3.3-RELEASE that may make SMP more stable at high loads? Are their any

SIMPLELOCK_DEBUG and apause

1999-11-07 Thread Assar Westerlund
Why trying to debug some locking code of my own I enabled SIMPLELOCK_DEBUG, only to find out that I was getting lots of `simple_unlock: lock not held' in lockmgr - acquire - apause. Looking closer at `apause' it seems rather clear that it can cause this. I proposed simple change is below.

Re: writing much slower than reading...

1999-11-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:well, I am working on writing a capture program to do 640x480x12bpp@30fps :to a raw disk, but writing to the raw device is SOOO slow... the reason :I say it's slow is the fact that it takes 8 times the system time writing :than reading... : :a bit about the system... k6/2-250, 100mhz system

Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

1999-11-07 Thread Andreas Dobloug
* Matthew Dillon | FreeBSD boxes can handle up to 4 Gigabytes of main memory. Is this true for the Alpha kernels too? -- Andreas Dobloug : email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message