Re: pthread/longjmp/signal problem

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:55:10, louisphilippe (Louis-Philippe Gagnon) wrote about pthread/longjmp/signal problem: I've been trying to implement a IsBadReadPtr-style function in FreeBSD by using signal handlers and longjmp/setjmp. It seemed to

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is possible to select(2) a socket for the purposes of doing an accept() by selecting it for read. This simply means that select(2) will consider a listen socket readable when there's at least one incoming connection in that socket's listen

libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Arun Sharma
KWireless is a KDE kicker applet to display the signal qualtiy of a IEEE 802.11b wireless network. http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/KWireless/ It depends on libwi, a library version of wicontrol(8). http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/libwi/ I know this is not in a

Re: include directive in config(8) (was: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..)

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:27:35AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 00:05:36, clefevre-lists (Cyrille Lefevre) wrote about Re: include directive in config(8) (was: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..): how about undef options XXX and undef device XXX, etc. ?

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-25 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:09:01AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question. Anyone know how gracefully the kernel handles a socket connection that is killed by the client between a select and accept call? I don't expect any problems,

Re: trouble with 802.11 and kernel bridging (more)

2001-06-25 Thread Duncan Barclay
- Original Message - From: list tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:27 AM Subject: Re: trouble with 802.11 and kernel bridging (more) ok, thank you! This explains my inability to perform bridging like I expected

Re: DVD IOCTLs on IDE?

2001-06-25 Thread James Halstead
On Sunday 24 June 2001 21:09, David Gilbert wrote: Could I have a copy of your patches? Where do I get xine? The attached is a shell archive for a port I made out of the libcss from livid. It compiles but i have no idea if it works. Please do not submit it to the ports collection! all the

Re: question: aio / nbio / kqueue

2001-06-25 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Josh Osborne wrote: On Friday, June 22, 2001, at 07:01 PM, E.B. Dreger wrote: My question is, from a performance standpoint, in what situations are these techniques most appropriate? AIO is good when you are not

Re: libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Arun Sharma wrote: KWireless is a KDE kicker applet to display the signal qualtiy of a IEEE 802.11b wireless network. http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/KWireless/ It depends on libwi, a library version of wicontrol(8).

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 06/24/2001 2:53:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And btw, hardware beats software anytime. The fastest PC processor right now is about the same speed as the slowest hardware. what are the numbers? Are you accounting for the overhead in accessing the

Re: how to invalidate scsi connection to driver module

2001-06-25 Thread j mckitrick
When using PCMCIA SCSI, how is the device destroyed when the card is unloaded, so that the device can be re-created when the card is re-inserted and the filesystem re-mounted? Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle

Re: how to invalidate scsi connection to driver module

2001-06-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
Umm- I dunno! Maybe you oughta look at the umass driver for USB as well..? On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, j mckitrick wrote: When using PCMCIA SCSI, how is the device destroyed when the card is unloaded, so that the device can be re-created when the card is re-inserted and the filesystem

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

2001-06-25 Thread Adam
Can you substantiate your claim there is plenty of GNU stuff in Interix, or are you just talking out your ass as usual? Substantiate? Look at the component list: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp Why should I substantiate it? Do it yourself if it bothers you. To

Re: libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Arun Sharma
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:37:00PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: I can't configure it. It doesn't contain a configure script and autoconf doesn't seem to like the (possible misnamed?) configure.in.in file. This is from 4.3-stable with autoconf-2.13_1. Try $ gmake -f Makefile.dist $ cat

Re: DVD IOCTLs on IDE?

2001-06-25 Thread Shannon Hendrix
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:12:28PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: ... and can successfully mount a DVD-ROM... they just don't play with any of the software I've been able to find. Most recently, I downloaded a copy of another package mentioned on /., but it dies looking for libdl.so ... which

Re: question: aio / nbio / kqueue

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Hodges
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: I tried AIO some months ago (4.1R or 4.2R), but had some trouble with AIO, mainly that it seemed to lose track of half my files. Not any particular files, it seemed that at any moment it would just pick ten or so (out of maybe 20-25 files) to

Re: question: aio / nbio / kqueue

2001-06-25 Thread Christopher Sedore
You might try using aio_waitcomplete instead of aio_suspend. I wrote it because I hated the aio_suspend/array methodology. You should also make sure you bzero the aiocb structure before use as some of the fields could cause strange behavior if left with random data. -Chris On Mon, 25 Jun

Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..

2001-06-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Jun-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:44:51PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: On 23-Jun-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: make buildkernel is rather easy way to work it around: in any case object tree is

Re: question: aio / nbio / kqueue

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Hodges
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Christopher Sedore wrote: You might try using aio_waitcomplete instead of aio_suspend. I wrote it because I hated the aio_suspend/array methodology. That does look like a nice alternative to aio_suspend... I'll have to have another look at AIO then. You should also

Wind River QA at Usenix

2001-06-25 Thread Jason S. Anderson
FreeBSD developers/users, At this week's Usenix conference, Wind River will have a representative (namely me :) at the FreeBSD booth to help answer questions about Wind and our relationship to the FreeBSD project. It's an informal setting where you should feel free to ask about any concerns

Re: cloning network interfaces

2001-06-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:31:06AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: It seems fine to me. I just tried it on my box. You forget to include prototype change of in_gif_input() in sys/net/if_gif.h. It's defined in sys/netinet/in_gif.h and I forgot to include it in my diff. Sorry about that. BTW,

How to write to multiple tape drives

2001-06-25 Thread Bernd Walter
I want to use multiple tapes drives at the same time so I need a way to send or read data without having to block. aio_* is not a solution because it's not portable to NetBSD. Is there another portable solution than vfork? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project

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

2001-06-25 Thread Wes Peters
Rahul Siddharthan wrote: 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. Can you substantiate your claim there is plenty of GNU stuff in Interix, or are

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

2001-06-25 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Valentine wrote: No. The core SpiderTCP protocol implementation is _not_ derived from BSD. Some of the utilities which were added as the product was developed came from Net/1 or Net/2 (hence the FTP.EXE copyright string), but others such as route and netstat were written from

Re: real time

2001-06-25 Thread Wes Peters
Joel Sherrill wrote: 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: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wes Peters writes: Mark Valentine wrote: No. The core SpiderTCP protocol implementation is _not_ derived from BSD. [...] (NOTE: this was never sockets over TLI like the stuff some UNIX vendors bought from a Spider competitor!) *Cough*Lachman*cough*.

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2001-06-25 Thread Evan Sarmiento
Subject: jailuser project --text follows this line-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would like your input on a project I am currently working on called Jailuser. Jail, which is similar, chroots an enviornment and sets restrictions on processes forked within. However,

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

2001-06-25 Thread Nate Williams
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. Can you substantiate your claim there is plenty of GNU stuff in Interix, or are you just talking out

retrieving flash data from pcmcia cards in freeBSD ... possible ?

2001-06-25 Thread Joesh Juphland
Many pcmcia cards that I use have user-updateable firmware - basically a flash region of some kind that you can update with newer firmwares. When I want to update these items, I generally stick them in a windows machine and get the new firmware from the manufacturer and use whatever program

strange tcp behavior?

2001-06-25 Thread Gilbert Gong
In the course of running some http load generators against apache on FreeBSD 4.3R, I have been seeing some strange behavior. I was finally able to find a specific concrete weirdness (atleast I think it's a weirdness). From test-client2, I am running http_load (installed from

Re: strange tcp behavior?

2001-06-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Gilbert Gong wrote: If I am not mistaken, this should not happen.. I'm also relatively certain the TIME_WAIT is not from a previously closed connection.. Any ideas what might cause this, or hints on how I can further investigate this? Gilbert That's a known bug with

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

2001-06-25 Thread James Nuckolls
In mailinglist.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: This is a good reference, but sadly it only really refers to the sockets paradigm as first popularized by BSD, which means they could have followed the API without touching a single line of BSD code. To reiterate: What I'm looking for is some true,

custom bootable CD /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/cdboot

2001-06-25 Thread Lawrence S. Lansing
Hello. I am trying to create a custom bootable FreeBSD CD with a live filesystem. I have read all the mailing-list messages I could find pertaining to this process, and I am still short of information. I will sum up the situation, and hope someone can fill in the details I'm missing. Here's