bwillwrite() not right.

2000-11-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
bwillwrite() is called in kern/sys_generic.c:dofilewrite() bwillwrite() is meant as a quick stop before doing any vnode ops to flush dirty buffers to prevent a deadlock. However: 1) afaik only VNODES have backing buffers, so stalling socket/pipes doesn't gain us anything 2) writev() doesn't c

int80h.org

2000-11-26 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
Several weeks ago I have asked several questions about assembly language programming under FreeBSD. I also promissed to share what I learned with others on my web site. I am glad to say that my asm project is moving along fast. I am working on HED (HTML editor). I created my own mark-up language

Re: [PATCH] Fix for panics in lookup() after forced unmount

2000-11-26 Thread Boris Popov
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Thomas Moestl wrote: > Actually, the panic will occur after a simple forced unmount of the current > working directory and subsequent try to access "..". This is because the > vnode of the cwd was cleared and it's v_mount member was set to NULL. This > member is however deref

rebooting from gdb?

2000-11-26 Thread David Gilbert
>From the gdb prompt when you're debugging a machine that is being remote kernel debugged, what do you call to reboot the machine? Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |

Re: [PATCH] Fix for panics in lookup() after forced unmount

2000-11-26 Thread Thomas Moestl
> :I think I have a sufficient fix for PR kern/19572. Could somebody please > :Review/Comment this? > :To quote: > > Looks reasonable to me! It certainly can't make things worse :-) Could someone then please look into committing this? TIA, - Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: [PATCH] Fix for panics in lookup() after forced unmount

2000-11-26 Thread Matt Dillon
:Hi, : :I think I have a sufficient fix for PR kern/19572. Could somebody please :Review/Comment this? :To quote: Looks reasonable to me! It certainly can't make things worse :-) -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

[PATCH] Fix for panics in lookup() after forced unmount

2000-11-26 Thread Thomas Moestl
Hi, I think I have a sufficient fix for PR kern/19572. Could somebody please Review/Comment this? To quote: > Description > Executing cd ../cdrom from /cdrom directory after cycle of mount-umount- > mount cycle causes trap 12 (page fault while in kernel mode) and hence > causes kernel panic.

Re: Uox, Linux emul and missing things.

2000-11-26 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:43:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > At 02.19 23/04/99 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > >FreeBSD defaults to signal floating point exceptions in case of > > >overflow and things like that. Linux, I take it, does not. > > >

Re: Stripping a.out binaries

2000-11-26 Thread Donald J . Maddox
You can use 'strip -aout ' to strip it. As far as I know, there is currently no way to specify the executable format to 'install -s'. I haven't tried it, but you might be able to use the OBJFORMAT or OBJECT_FORMAT (not sure which form is correct) environment variable to make install DTRT for aout

truncating problem (long, sorry)

2000-11-26 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, I always get the following message at system boot time: "slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating". This message is odd, because I have two identical harddisks (Maxtor DiamondMax 15Gb) and I have formatted and sliced them in precisely the same way, yet only one of them reports troub