Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog.

2001-07-05 Thread Andrey Simonenko
- Original Message - From: Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.hackers Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog. > I suppose that depends on how you define "future." Do we want to > be using libdialog in the year 2

kernel panic when trying to use init's address space

2001-07-05 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hello, Some time ago I was asking about I/O in kernel mode when I don't have struct proc to use syscalls. Actually I just wanted my kld to read it's config file on load. Terry told me it's tricky, and I was thinking about possible workarounds. I decided to try the following: look for some process

Re: kernel panic when trying to use init's address space

2001-07-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:51:22PM +0400, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > Hello, > > Some time ago I was asking about I/O in kernel mode when I don't have > struct proc to use syscalls. Actually I just wanted my kld to read it's > config file on load. Terry told me it's tricky, and I was thinking > ab

SCSI Boot order

2001-07-05 Thread Leubner, Achim
One of our testers has a boot problem with FreeBSD 4.3. He installed the OS on a onboard SCSI drive. After installing the FreeBSD driver of our ICP controllers and inserting a ICP card with one disk attached, the system has a boot problem. FreeBSD cannot mount the root file system (I think because

Re: SCSI Boot order

2001-07-05 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:42:41 +0100 > From: "Leubner, Achim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > One of our testers has a boot problem with FreeBSD 4.3. He installed > the OS on a onboard SCSI drive. After installing the FreeBSD driver > of our ICP controllers and inserting a ICP card with one disk > att

Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog.

2001-07-05 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: "Andrey Simonenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog. Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:32:59 +0400 > I don't mean this at all, I just wanted to know if somebody > improve/patch/develop libdialog, or if somebody is going > to remove and add another compatible library

Re: pthread/longjmp/signal problem

2001-07-05 Thread Louis-Philippe Gagnon
I finally got around to trying the patch on -stable; I can confirm that it solves the problem. Thanks again! Louis-Philippe Gagnon - Original Message - From: "Daniel Eischen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Louis-Philippe Gagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June

RE: recent 4.3-stable freezes my SMP box

2001-07-05 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > >I just upgraded one of my boxes to FreeBSD 4.3-stable with > >cvsup. Unfortunately the machine now freezes. > > If you are tracking -stable, then there is a lot of good reason > to keep an eye the freebsd-stable mailing list. Particularly > when something like this comes up. > *blush* I'v

NIS

2001-07-05 Thread Marcelo Pereira
Hi All, Can I set up my NIS Server to serve both FreeBSD and Linux clients ?? Thanks in advance, Marcelo Pereira Math. - Unicamp [Brazil] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel panic when trying to use init's address space

2001-07-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > You are mmaping into the address space for the process you use the > struct proc from. > As long as it's this programm that is curproc everything is fine. > That means you are called from that process such in kldload or > interrupted

Re: Quick question: AIO / SMP / process-based threading

2001-07-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:21:14AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:47:49AM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled: > > | 1. Is AIO SMP-safe? > > > > AIO is not safe, SMP or not. > > Are you maybe confusion AIO (a POSIX mandated API) with > async mo

Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog.

2001-07-05 Thread Eric Melville
> I'm working on some patches for dialog(1) and libdialog. > Does FreeBSD team want to continue use of dialog(1) program > and libdialog in future? I ask this question because I fix > some problems I have with dialog(1) (really with libdialog) and > I'm going to try to fix the same problems with a

Re: An netgraph firewall module ? Is this possible / good performing ?

2001-07-05 Thread Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
Julian Elischer writes: > Nicolai Petri wrote: > > > > Hi hackers, > > > > I've used some time writing a custom natd like daemon which makes som > > speciel packet processing. > > One of the issues with the natd approach is the large amount of > > context-switches it gives. > > This can

Re: An netgraph firewall module ? Is this possible / good performing?

2001-07-05 Thread Julian Elischer
you are correct. I had forgotten about that.. On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > Nicolai Petri wrote: > > > > > > Hi hackers, > > > > > > I've used some time writing a custom natd like daemon which makes som > > > speciel packet processing

kern/28748: HARP may reject SVCs from certain ATM switches

2001-07-05 Thread Richard Hodges
I just discovered an interesting bug in HARP that prevents SVCs from working on a Xylan switch, and maybe others. The PR is kern/28748, and it includes a detailed description of the problem and a simple patch. Any takers? Thanks, -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Request for tech review: half of FreeBSD book

2001-07-05 Thread Michael Lucas
Nay, enough! You know, when I requested an article review here several months ago, I was impressed that I got almost fifty responses. "So," I think, "how many people could possibly want to review a book?" In about forty-eight hours, that comes to about 170 people. I want to publically thank ev

Re: Request for tech review: half of FreeBSD book

2001-07-05 Thread Linh Pham
On 2001-07-05, Michael Lucas scribbled: # I want to publically thank everyone who volunteered. Responses came # from committers, technical editors from other companies, people I've # seen on -hackers for years, and countless folks who must just read # -hackers in hope of achieving enlightenment.

PC with two monitors

2001-07-05 Thread Belial
Hello all! I have PC with dual head video card (Matrox G450) which supports to use both heads independently. I can attach to it two monitors or monitor and tv. Also I can attach two mice(ps/2 and serial) and two keyboards(ps/2 and usb). How I can use all that as two terminals in FreeBSD 4.2? I m

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-05 Thread Wes Peters
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > If WindRiver gets on the ball and keeps fulfilling CD orders, why then this > name might continue to be worth something. Otherwise, it will go away and > the FreeBSD CD distributions will simply take place through other > distributors. Or not, if every other distrib

Re: C++ to C translator

2001-07-05 Thread Wes Peters
Rayson Ho wrote: > > Hi, > > I have written some code in C++. However, I want to run it on an old > mainframe machine, which a C++ compiler is not available. > > I know that the old g++ is a C++ to C compiler. Does anyone know which > version it is? 1.x was a C++ to C compiler. Good luck, it

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:55:25AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > For very good reason, Jordan is no longer in a position to do this. We > as the FreeBSD community need to decide what we're going to do about > this, and we need to decide before another disastrous release cycle > happens. WRS does n

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-07-05 Thread Wes Peters
Marc wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 07/03/2001 11:57:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > Now try to imagine a whole PC on a smaller board than a PIII CPU > > > > cartridge. If you can't, get a copy of the Embedd