Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-27 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:03:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 26), Sheldon Hearn said: On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:05:23 MST, Brooks Davis wrote: Is FreeBSD's behavior correct? Why or why not? You can use the included code snippet to verify that this occurs.

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-27 Thread Doug Barton
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Wed 2000-04-19 (16:51), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: I have another idea: We make a sh script named "rcsource" or whatever, which we source when we want to have the rc environment, stealing your code maliciously: /-- sourcercs_sourced_files= sourcercs (

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:31:27 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: Unless someone comes back with negative feedback, I'll be pushing for a commit for this (and all that depend on this change) on the weekend. Consider this a request for review and comment. My intention is to commit the patches

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:31:27 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: Unless someone comes back with negative feedback, I'll be pushing for a commit for this (and all that depend on this change) on the weekend. Consider this a request for review

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:21:56 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Nope, feel free and go ahead to commit something. I don't mind either way. Excellent. I've committed the function to defaults/rc.conf and the calls to it from the various rc scripts. I realize that this is something we want

Please support Java port to *BSD

2000-04-27 Thread John Daniels
Hi: In November 1999 a request for enhancement (RFE) was opened at Sun's Java Developer's Connection titled: Port jdk 1.2.x to FreeBSD (bug id: 4288745). Members of the Java Developer's Connection help prioritize bug fixes and RFE's by voting for the one's that they believe are needed most.

pthreads and ORBacus

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Dobson
Hi Sorry to anyone who reads both the hackers and ports mail lists as this is cross posted. I am trying to build ORBacus's JTC and ORB on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. I know that there is an ORBacus port, but it is the single threaded version and I need the event service (which needs JTC which needs

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-27 Thread Wes Peters
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:16:51PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:03:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: Why should we treat (1.0/0.0) any differently from (1/0)? Because Linux has the uncanny ability to both divide by zero and produce the

Help me complete the FreeBSD specific zsh completions!

2000-04-27 Thread Akinori -Aki- MUSHA
Hi! This is continued from my previous call re the zsh compdef's. I've had a contact with zsh-workers and one of the zsh developers, Sven Wischnowsky. He kindly improved the completions I'd handed in and sent me back the following work. (How kind of him!)

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-27 Thread Rayson Ho
Both Solaris and NT have good thread implementations: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/zabatta.html Read this paper -- There is something about NT threads implementation which has never been released in any books! the goal is to do better than NT (which

4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes / [spin icon just twitches once or somethign] Here's what the 4.0-RELEASE kern.flp

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on it along the following lines: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt rm

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:02:14 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jordan Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some Jordan surgery on it along the following lines: Jordan mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Jordon rm /mnt/boot.config Jordon umount /mnt Jordan That should keep the

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
I'm seeing this too. Try booting without the floppy installed, then when it bitches, insert said floppy and hit enter. Actually, I'm having all manner of insane problems with this board, and I'm about to throw it out and go back to a FIC SD-11. Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on it along the following lines: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

Asus K7V boot failure

2000-04-27 Thread Jeroen Hogeveen
Hey Chris and Jordan, I've got one too, you should however disable your boot virus protection in the bios setup! This will fix the problem you described. Maybe something to mention in the FAQ, if it is not yet there. Regards, jh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

immutable flag strangeness

2000-04-27 Thread Barrett Richardson
I have attached a file to /dev/vn0 and built a file system on it. I have set the "system immutable" flag because I want to store some sensitive stuff on it. # ls -lo /home/afile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel schg 16777216 Apr 27 17:36 /home/afile # But... if I mount it vnconfig -c /dev/vn0

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Beattie
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on it along

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on it along the following lines: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt rm /mnt/boot.config umount /mnt That should keep the -P flag out of your boot line and ensure that the keyboard is properly detected. I think our use

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Shenton
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:26:13 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike I'm seeing this too. Try booting without the floppy installed, Mike then when it bitches, insert said floppy and hit enter. ROFL, it worked. I'm pulling the install down the wire now. Many thanks! Mike Actually,

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Actually, I'm having all manner of insane problems with this Mike board, and I'm about to throw it out and go back to a FIC SD-11. What kind of problems? A friend has the slightly older ASUS K7M board and seems happy with it -- no problems reported. The system shipped (nonfunctional)

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-27 Thread Wes Peters
A G F Keahan wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 09:21:15PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: This design isn't ideal on any OS, but the fact that you do significant processing every time a request arrives on a socket probably hides most of the inefficiency due to thread switching and lack of

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Beattie
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mike Smith wrote: I'm afraid that, in this case, it is *your* analysis that is faulty, and you are being misled by an irrelevant aside. Hardware that used to work, that still works in other situations, stopped working when the boot procedure changed. The people who

RE: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread John Baldwin
On 27-Apr-00 Chris Shenton wrote: Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the registers immediately after saying /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes / [spin icon just twitches once or somethign]

Re: Asus K7V boot failure

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
Hey Chris and Jordan, I've got one too, you should however disable your boot virus protection in the bios setup! This will fix the problem you described. Maybe something to mention in the FAQ, if it is not yet there. Thanks; this has indeed fixed things. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and

Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Dragos Ruiu
I'll try asking here now I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following messages to syslog every time the mouse is moved:

Re: lock-ups due to the scheduler

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Luoqi Chen wrote: This is quite interesting. I'm no scheduler expert, but my understanding is priority PUSER won't degrade and is only set in kernel mode after waking up from a sleep. In user mode, processes should always have priority p_usrpri = PUSER, it is obviously

Re: Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following messages to syslog every time the mouse is moved: Apr 26 18:49:45 kyxbot /kernel:

Re: Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following messages to syslog every time the

Re: Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Dragos Ruiu wrote: I'll try asking here now I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following messages to syslog every

Re: Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Dragos Ruiu wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the