Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wes Peters writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >> >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: >> >: With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite >> >: good at this. >> > >> >Y

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Wes Peters
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: > >: With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite > >: good at this. > > > >Yes. Most of the data I have is for 6 channel models. > >

Lazy binding

2000-05-05 Thread Arun Sharma
Is there a strong reason why FreeBSD rtld uses lazy binding by default ? In a multithreaded environment, this could make things pretty complex. What if a thread holds locks and fails at runtime due to a missing symbol ? Also, is there a significant performance benefit to doing lazy binding ?

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: >: With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite >: good at this. > >Yes. Most of the data I have is for 6 channel models. 12-chanel chipsets are overkill if you don't

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: > : However, it won't work if you are hacking pci hardware and manage to > : hang the PCI bus. > > Unless, of course, the trap handler is in cache as well as the > debugger routines you need. On rare occasions this is tru

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread Wes Peters
"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > As a die-hard assembly language programmer, I was very pleased when recently > someone posted a link to his Hello, World assembly language code here. > > I played with his code a bit, then wrote a very simple filter in assembly > language. I then converted it to an

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : However, it won't work if you are hacking pci hardware and manage to : hang the PCI bus. Unless, of course, the trap handler is in cache as well as the debugger routines you need. On rare occasions this is true, but almsot all the time it isn'

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jin Guojun writes: : In a normal operation, both work well. When system hangs, neither of them : works. It looks that system is in some wiered status. : : Does any one happen to know how to trace this kind of problem? PCI bus analizer is one way. Another is to hav

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes: : hit ctrl+alt+esc on the console, or send a serial break if using : a serial console, make sure you have BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER if you're : using a serial console. Sometimes this isn't enough. I use the NMI trick often. However, it won't work

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread Thomas M. Sommers
"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > I pose a question in it (where can an assembly language program find its > command line): If anyone knows the answer, I'd love to hear it! It's on the stack; first argc, and then the argv pointers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-05-05 Thread Nate Lawson
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on x86 with gcc 2.95.2 and the > > httperf-0.6 port gives a SIGFPE and dumps core when run against a system > > that has no web server running. (The default behavior is to

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite : good at this. Yes. Most of the data I have is for 6 channel models. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bod

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug >> symbols by default. That takes a lot more space (30 MB as compared to >> about 8). But if you have a debug

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:34:19PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >You want to look in src/lib/csu for the "magic assembler" which is part >of all programs. There you will find both the environment and the >cmd line args. Thanks. Adam -- "Let's eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may d

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-05-05 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on x86 with gcc 2.95.2 and the > httperf-0.6 port gives a SIGFPE and dumps core when run against a system > that has no web server running. (The default behavior is to measure > localhost when no arguments are specifie

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: >I pose a question in it (where can an assembly language program find its >command line): If anyone knows the answer, I'd love to hear it! You want to look in src/lib/csu for the "magic assembler" which is part of all programs. There y

APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
As a die-hard assembly language programmer, I was very pleased when recently someone posted a link to his Hello, World assembly language code here. I played with his code a bit, then wrote a very simple filter in assembly language. I then converted it to an article on System Calls in FreeBSD, and

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
> : Hello Matt, > : > : Well I almost thought we had something here, as the machine actually stayed > :online for over a day this past time. Anyway I did add your patch, and when > :the machine died I now have a crashdump of the data with your patch included, > :when I will provide below. FYI

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread FTG staff
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000505 12:21] wrote: > > * Jin Guojun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000505 12:03] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have > > > compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. > > > > > > How can I make a hanging

Re: www. Freebsd.org Down??

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Price
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote: # # www.freebsd.org down? # Figured this would be the best place to port... Scheduled downtime announced last night. They are moving some bits over to a new storage box. It should be back sometime soon. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to

www. Freebsd.org Down??

2000-05-05 Thread Nicole Harrington.
www.freebsd.org down? Figured this would be the best place to port... 4 bordercore2-serial0-0-0-0.SanFrancisco.cw.net (166.48.15.249) 8.031 ms 7.956 ms 7.825 ms 5 core9.SanFrancisco.cw.net (204.70.9.81) 8.411 ms 8.470 ms 8.537 ms 6 204.70.10.105 (204.70.10.105) 10.610 ms 9.874

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
> : > :Can anyone think of a reason to *not* have mt statically linked? > : > :-matt > > There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in > /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move > to /bin. Well, yes, that's what would come with this as we

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000505 12:21] wrote: > * Jin Guojun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000505 12:03] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have > > compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. > > > > How can I make a hanging kernel into DD

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jin Guojun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000505 12:03] wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have > compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. > > How can I make a hanging kernel into DDB? Will grounding the NMI do it? > > Thanks for any suggestions, That's a

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug >symbols by default. That takes a lot more space (30 MB as compared to >about 8). But if you have a debug kernel, I don't see any reason to >install a stripped version. Running the no

Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-05 Thread FTG staff
Hi, I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. How can I make a hanging kernel into DDB? Will grounding the NMI do it? Thanks for any suggestions, -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Hello Matt, : : Well I almost thought we had something here, as the machine actually stayed :online for over a day this past time. Anyway I did add your patch, and when :the machine died I now have a crashdump of the data with your patch included, :when I will provide below. FYI, I have kep

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Can anyone think of a reason to *not* have mt statically linked? : :-matt There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move to /bin. -Matt

ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-05 Thread Henk Wevers
Hi *, After a make world and offcourse a rebuild from the kernel, my ps and top command did not work anymore. If i do a ps i get the following message. ps: proc size mismatch (40872 total, 1044 chunks) Somebody has an idea? Is the procfilesystem changed and the ps command not? Henk To Unsu

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Can anyone think of a reason to *not* have mt statically linked? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
> A hah! Yes, I think I see what is happening. > > The kernel ioctl() system call is using a stack based > char buffer to hold the temporary data, and this buffer is not > aligned. > > Please try the following patch. > > -Matt >

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Andrey Sverdlichenko
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kherry Zamore wrote: > > look at http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp > > There is AVP for linux, freebsd, bsdi. > > This traps ILOVEYOU type scripts also? Don't know, never used one. But there is beta version "AVP for sendmail", it should. To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Aled Morris
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: >lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was >launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. I don't agree that it would be limited. The reason for the "success" of ILOVEYOU is that its replication

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Nope, ILOVEYOU is a real virus. > ...but it does not wipe your hard disk, no matter what the warning > message said. It does wipe all jpeg and mp3 files though... Smartass! ;-) Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Kherry Zamore
how did i escape death? looks like for the past week when ever I load up internet explorer and it takes me to the default start page of msn.com (which i haven't changed yet) it asks me to install VB scripting support. "Why do i need this?" I ask myself and click cancel. Anywho I get the attachme

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Kherry Zamore
> look at http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp > There is AVP for linux, freebsd, bsdi. This traps ILOVEYOU type scripts also? -= Kherry Zamore =- -= (732)937-9842 (732)309-3648 =- -= Your local computer nerd/geek/god at work =- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Taavi Talvik wrote: > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > > > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > > > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > > > are able to scan

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alexander Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus spake Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The 'virus' is the warning message itself, silly! > Nope, ILOVEYOU is a real virus. ...but it does not wipe your hard disk, no matter what the warning message said. It does wipe all jpeg and mp3

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Andrey Sverdlichenko
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Taavi Talvik wrote: > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve. look at