Can we use this for the JDK? (was: Motif goes open source)

2000-05-15 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear all, Is there someone on this list who's into the finer points of copyrighting? I would like to know what the implications are of this for the soon-to-be-coming native FreeBSD JDK port. In what form is Motif going to be available to the general FreeBSD developer? Am I going to find /usr/por

need to borrow a clue re: rtld

2000-05-15 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
Hi All, Messing about with Dante (the SOCKS5 replacement), I've encountered some difficulty with run-time linking that I don't understand. In brief: $ env LD_PRELOAD=libdsocks.so telnet # works $ env LD_PRELOAD=libdsocks.so xchat # undefined symbol '_gethostbyname' $ env LD_PRELOAD=libc.so

Re: CVS question

2000-05-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:56 PM -0600 5/15/00, Warner Losh wrote: >I have a CVS question. Normally I wouldn't bother the nice folks here >with it, but since it involves backmigrating the local changes Timing >Solutions has made to FreeBSD, I thought that others might find its >answer useful in the future. I would be

Gnu xgcc or as

2000-05-15 Thread Chuck Robey
I was wondering if anyone knows the build process for either gcc or the as part of binutils well enough to tell me ... I've noticed, for the produced binary for either gcc or as (the one for gcc is xgcc), when you try to invoke them directly, for testing, they only preprocess their input, then put

Re: utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 15 May 2000, James Howard wrote: > How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing > programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? As usual, patches speak louder than words :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAI

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Sam Stephenson
On Monday, May 15, 2000 at 03:09a, Bob Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." > >

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, >Cool. I have an "in" at ICS who is sending me a cdrom with the >sources on it. The servers are slash dotted back into the stone age >at this time. This should also make it easier for use to integrate >patches in the future since he's a good guy who I worked with back in >the OI/uib Obejct

Re: utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, May 15, 2000, James Howard wrote: > How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing > programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? I agree that this would be a good idea. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Performance proven: It w

CVS question

2000-05-15 Thread Warner Losh
I have a CVS question. Normally I wouldn't bother the nice folks here with it, but since it involves backmigrating the local changes Timing Solutions has made to FreeBSD, I thought that others might find its answer useful in the future. We have a CVS repo that we import the FreeBSD sources into

utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread James Howard
How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bob Bishop writes: : "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to : enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source : code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." : : Full details at http

Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp()

2000-05-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : We could simply redefine mktemp to not be such a security hole. Do : common programs that use mktemp depend on side effects? mktemp cannot be defined such that it isn't a security hole. That's why mkstemp was invented. Warner To Unsubscrib

Apache in FreeBSD 3.3 precompiled with DSO?

2000-05-15 Thread Sean Peck
Is the Apache distributed in 3.3 compiled with DSO? Sean Peck News Index -- The original News Only Search Engine. http://www.newsindex.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp()

2000-05-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000515 12:11] wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > > It's certainly not like it would be the first non-portable function > > > we've added. Where adding functions to libraries encourages better > > > coding pr

PR closing stats

2000-05-15 Thread Warner Losh
Is there some place where a summary of those that have closed PRs can be found? I'd like to see how many I've closed in the last year to know if I should feel guilt or not :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp()

2000-05-15 Thread Wes Peters
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, 14 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > It's certainly not like it would be the first non-portable function > > we've added. Where adding functions to libraries encourages better > > coding practices, I'm (often) in favour of it, especially if it > > encourages

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > "OpenSource" (without blank) is the term. "Open Source" is like > > "Free BSD", suit-wearers language showing the unfamilarness with the > > subject. > > Really? I have always used (and have no plans to change) "Ope

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Dennis
At 01:13 PM 5/15/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Since X11 is an optional (3rd party even) component of FreeBSD, >the license on Motif is not really a big issue: it will always be >a port in FreeBSD, it will not be part of the base system. > >We have other ports with far weirder licenses. > >

Late binding between layers

2000-05-15 Thread Yonny Cardenas
Hello The network software is commonly layered into hierarchy of protocols, for example the TCP/IP implementation. The FreeBSD kernel support a late binding between layers? How ? Thanks. ++ YONNY CARDENAS B. Systems Engineer UNIX is BSD, and Fre

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Martin Cracauer wrote: > > "OpenSource" (without blank) is the term. "Open Source" is like > "Free BSD", suit-wearers language showing the unfamilarness with the > subject. Really? I have always used (and have no plans to change) "Open Source". I see no point at all in making it a single word.

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > > > code of Mo

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Martin Cracauer wrote: >> >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: >> > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to >> > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source >> > code o

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." >

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > > code of Motif, using a public license, to the

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." > > Full details at http://www.

Re: Native SMBFS for FreeBSD

2000-05-15 Thread Boris Popov
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > I'm glad to announce first public release of SMB/CIFS filesystem > for FreeBSD. The primary goal is to test compatibilty with various SMB > servers. This version should run on FreeBSD-current and 4.0. It will not > run on 3.x. As always I'v

Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Bob Bishop
"The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source code of Motif, using a public license, to the Open Source community." Full details at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif -- Bob Bishop