RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Jordan, Bill Gates has jumped in to clarify "OS vs. GPL" surprisingly quickly after the publication in WSJ. Lee is my hero. > > Sort of the other way around. We were the "several FreeBSD > volunteers" referenced in the article. Lee's my press contact at the > WSJ and he's done a number o

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Koster, K.J. said on Jun 21, 2001 at 10:24:24: > Perhaps Lee can consider tracking down how much GLP lisenced software is > used in companies in close proximity to Microsoft. While Microsoft is not > going to be caught dead using it, http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/interixinc.asp Pl

RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Andy
OOPs ;) check http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-20-018-20-NW-MS-SW Ak > Koster, K.J. said on Jun 21, 2001 at 10:24:24: > > Perhaps Lee can consider tracking down how much GLP lisenced software is > > used in companies in close proximity to Microsoft. While > Microsoft is not >

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-20-018-20-NW-MS-SW Doesn't this mean software developed with Microsoft's SDK is viral? And doesn't *that* mean you're not allowed to develop it with Microsoft's SDK? And doesn't this sound a bit circular? DE

Re: Your new web site

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone close enough to drive round and have a quiet word? > "Netiquette" for instance. Or "asking for trouble". Or "lookity shiny new baseball bat"? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Back to swapping socket structures... > > You could swap them if you wanted to give up some KVA > space to be able to do it. Which is a problem, especially for Linux. The problem here is that there are x86 machines around with 64GB of RAM. Linux has j

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On 21 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-20-018-20-NW-MS-SW > > Doesn't this mean software developed with Microsoft's SDK is viral? > And doesn't *that* mean you're not allowed to develop it with > Micros

whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Alexey Zelkin
hi, I have made few modifications to whois(1) to shut up BDECFLAGS warnings, cleanup code, and add new features. Main aim of this patch is to add flexibility to people who want to point whois(1) to non-deault whois server, i.e. have to type "-h server name" many times. It adds new command line

Re: real time

2001-06-21 Thread Joel Sherrill
Wes Peters wrote: > > James Housley wrote: > > > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > Charles: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > > Joao Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > > > > > > > > > Does FreeBSD has any related work about it as an real time operating > > > > > system? >

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > I have made few modifications to whois(1) to shut up BDECFLAGS > warnings, cleanup code, and add new features. [snip] > > Resume: with this patch included to add new country's whois server > we'll need to add only one strin

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Alexey Zelkin
hi, On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I have made few modifications to whois(1) to shut up BDECFLAGS > > warnings, cleanup code, and add new features. > [snip] > > > > Resume: with this patch included to add new country's whois server > > we'll need to add only

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > It adds new command line modifier "-c" to declare server code. > Originally it was supposed to point to country's whois > server, but with no modifications can be used for other areas. > > For example you can have following string i

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/interixinc.asp > Plenty of GNU stuff there, though it doesn't say so explicitly. > Of course, they say it's all meant only for "legacy Unix" stuff. "Legacy" being industry jargon for "working".

assigning MAC addr to NIC after boot up?

2001-06-21 Thread Mohana Krishna Penumetcha
the device to which i am writing a driver doesn't have a pre-assigned MAC address. only after the system boots up, a user level program will assign it a MAC address. I want to know if it is correct to attach a network interface without MAC address. And if it is o.k., when i get the MAC address

pthread/longjmp/signal problem

2001-06-21 Thread Louis-Philippe Gagnon
No reactions the first time, let's try again. I've encountered a problem in the interaction betwen signals, longjmp and pthreads; I'm hoping someone can help me make sense of it. I've been trying to implement a IsBadReadPtr-style function in FreeBSD by using signal handlers and longjmp/setjmp. I

RE: shutdown not completing

2001-06-21 Thread Andy
cross posting this to -smp and -hackers as it seems to be a problem there. for those who are new to the problem, in -stable we have reports of "shutdown now" hanging rather than dropping to single user mode. I have a dual PIII machine. At 4.2-RELEASE I had no problems at all. However, two/

Re: Your new web site

2001-06-21 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:40:44PM +1200, David Preece wrote: > >1-877-230-7268 > > Is anyone close enough to drive round and have a quiet word? "Netiquette" > for instance. Or "asking for trouble". Well if you're in the US, why not call him? The further away the better. :^) - alex To Unsub

Re: real time

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Joel Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RTEMS is not pure-GPL -- it does allow binary redistribution. So does "pure GPL", as long as you make the sources available. If you mean that you can redistribute (potentially modified) RTEMS binaries without providing the source code, then you've effe

multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread list tracker
I have two pc card NICs in my system - ep0 and wi0. All of the normal problems (irq, etc.) have been solved, and I am using them beautifully. The problem is, I would like to use the pccard_ifconfig directive to configure BOTH of these cards from /etc/rc.conf. Currently, I have _one_ pccard_i

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:13:29PM -, list tracker scribbled: | | I have two pc card NICs in my system - ep0 and wi0. All of the normal | problems (irq, etc.) have been solved, and I am using them beautifully. | | The problem is, I would like to use the pccard_ifconfig directive to | conf

Re: real time

2001-06-21 Thread Joel Sherrill
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Joel Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RTEMS is not pure-GPL -- it does allow binary redistribution. > > So does "pure GPL", as long as you make the sources available. If you > mean that you can redistribute (potentially modified) RTEMS binaries > without

Re: pthread/longjmp/signal problem

2001-06-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Louis-Philippe Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010621 09:56] wrote: > No reactions the first time, let's try again. > > I've encountered a problem in the interaction betwen signals, longjmp and > pthreads; I'm hoping someone can help me make sense of it. > > I've been trying to implement a IsBadRe

Re: pthread/longjmp/signal problem

2001-06-21 Thread Louis-Philippe Gagnon
[snip] > > ERRORS > If the contents of the env are corrupted, or correspond to an environment > that has already returned, the longjmp() routine calls the routine I interpreted that as referring to the case when we longjmp after the _function_ that called setjmp has returned, but yes, "

PANIC - 4.3-STABLE, suspecting ata controller

2001-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hello all, I've been trying to resolve this for a few weeks now. Previous posts to -questions have produced no useful info, and I haven't found anything in the list archives that has helped. This machine is running 4.3-STABLE cvsupped from May 21. I have experienced the exact same problem with v

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread list tracker
So what you are saying is that there _is not_ any way to perform multiple pccard_ifconfig statements solely in /etc/rc.conf ? I feel that defining it in /etc/rc.conf is more elegant, and am surprised that it was built to work with one card but will not work with another one. btw, as I succes

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:24:29PM -, list tracker scribbled: | So what you are saying is that there _is not_ any way to perform multiple | pccard_ifconfig statements solely in /etc/rc.conf ? | | I feel that defining it in /etc/rc.conf is more elegant, and am surprised | that it was built t

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:24:29PM -, list tracker wrote: > So what you are saying is that there _is not_ any way to perform multiple > pccard_ifconfig statements solely in /etc/rc.conf ? There's a method in -current, I'm not sure why it hasn't been MFC'd. I'll put it on my todo list of no o

Confusion with mknod() and devfs

2001-06-21 Thread Zhihui Zhang
There is following comment inside ufs_mknod() which says /* * Remove inode, then reload it through VFS_VGET so it is * checked to see if it is an alias of an existing entry in * the inode cache. */ I really can not understand it. For each new disk inode, we call u

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems.

2001-06-21 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:46:39 -0700 > Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: brooks> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:24:29PM -, list tracker wrote: > So what you are saying is that there _is not_ any way to perform multiple > pccard_ifconfig statements solely in /etc/rc.conf ? brooks> T

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:23:43PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:39:05 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > > whois -c ru freebsd.org.ru (use -- whois.ripn.net) > > > > whois -Q freebsd.org.ru > > > > > whois -c ua freebsd.org.ua (use -- whois.net.ua) > > > > whois

Re: PANIC - 4.3-STABLE, suspecting ata controller

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > http://www.prioritydesigns.com/crashdata/ contains the files. I've put a > dmesg.out (obvious) as well as the kernel.0, vmcore.0 and kernel.debug > there, if anyone would like to run it through gdb themselves > (***WARNING*** vmcore.0 is 128M) (NOTE, t

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig ... thanks! + contribution

2001-06-21 Thread list tracker
>From: Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig statements in one rc.conf ? Problems. >Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:31:54 -0700 > >On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:18:3

Re: multiple pccard_ifconfig ... thanks! + contribution (DELL OEM)

2001-06-21 Thread list tracker
ok, the removable_interfaces method worked wonderfully - just like I wanted. Thank you. I am using a Dell OEM'd Lucent wavelan card, so I had to add this to my /etc/defaults/pccard.conf - perhaps you would like to add this to future releases of said file: # Dell TrueMobile (OEMed Lucent W

Re: PANIC - 4.3-STABLE, suspecting ata controller

2001-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > So ... I'm looking for any possible help in straightening this out. > > Advice on how to run gdb more effectively is welcome, as well as anyone > > Hi! > > In the handbook there is a chapter about how to debug kernels. >

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
> I did not follow things going on carefully for almost two months while > I'd a deal with graduate project, but now since it's finished (Yay!!!) > and I got some time I started to dig to old patches (made during last > three months) and it's one of them. :) I'd incorporated few missing > points

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > assistance (John Dyson's work on the unified VM and > buffer cache predated all such non-academic work in > all commercial UNIX implementations by almost two years, > and included cache coloring, which was a brand new > concept, at the time). FreeBSD

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-21 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your MUA is a known text mutilator. You'd be better off getting a UNIX-based MUA: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 On Wednesday, 20 June 2001 at 11:16:18 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROT

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arg.. I wish you had contacted me before doing this work. From looking at > your patch, your using an old copy of my work. The newest one is available > at: http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.patch and will be committed > very-shortly-now(tm).

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > Hmm, let's see: > > Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) > Appl. No.: 646734 > Filed: May 3, 1996 > > Versus: > > * Derived from hp300 version by Mike Hibler, this version by William >

[RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
I would appreciate comments on the following patch: http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.20010622.patch It does the following: o Implement recursive IP Address searches based on the results of a query to ARIN. This allows a user to type 'whois 210.139.255.223' and get the expected resul

RE: shutdown not completing (more info)

2001-06-21 Thread Andy
Install: 4.2-RELEASE from CDRom, GENERIC kernel "shutdown now" works fine. 4.3-RELEASE from CDRom, GENERIC kernel "shutdown now" fails, hangs machine. It seems I was outa touch with the SMP idea. The 4.3-RELEASE generic kernel (without smp) causes the problem so I won't cross post this to -sm