Re: libc_r, signals and modifying sigcontext

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:48:30AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Can you breakpoint or add a print statement to see if the thread > chosen to handle the signal is the current thread (_thread_run > == thread) in the patched section below? Yes, the following condition was true according to my prin

Re: review: sparc64 port commit candidate

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:41:24AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > and here is a dump of how far it gets: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/tip.record > > One thing I did notice here was the OpenBoot prom version (3.15) which, > to be blunt, is something Noah had installed on his naviga

Re: Fwd: Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 Available. Now Open Source

Ron Chen wrote: > > It's weekend, it's time for hacking. > > I downloaded the SGE 5.3 source code. Played with it > for a while, the 50+MB of source does have some > goodies, it is not as simple as NQS: > > 1. Master fail-over: you can set up several shadow > masters in one cluster. When the qm

Re: KNOTE()

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. > > > > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints > > of an existing library and API. > > Yes, excep

Re: [PATCH] reduce text(code) size and improve clarity of pkg_add

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:44:12PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > I'd like to apply this patch to pkg_add which reduces the amount of code > the compiler generates, and improves the clarity of the code. > > 1. s_strl* is obvious some form of "safe" strl{cpy,cat}. But *WHAT* >does it make "saf

Re: Why objcopy --strip-debug instead of strip?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:26:41 MST, John Polstra wrote: > I don't understand what this has to do with how the kernel is > stripped. The current modules build attached to buildkernel doesn't generate modules with debugging symbols, regardless of whether CONFIGARGS='-g' was specified. I want to f

Re: Why objcopy --strip-debug instead of strip?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When the kernel is built as kernel.debug, why is it passed through > objcopy --strip-debug before being installed, instead of being passed > through strip? If you strip all of the symbols from the kernel then nothing t

Re: cluster size

"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > > >I'm not sure if Steve Baumel (the person largely responsible for > >the SVR4 VM system) ever wrote a paper on his approach, or not, > >but with the Solaris source code available, his code is now > >available for study. > > Isn't that just the binary version, you

RE: cluster size

>I'm not sure if Steve Baumel (the person largely responsible for >the SVR4 VM system) ever wrote a paper on his approach, or not, >but with the Solaris source code available, his code is now >available for study. Isn't that just the binary version, you still have to buy the source? -- Jonathan

Re: cluster size

Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Excellent answer! I looked at the zone allocator code almost two years > back and I wondered at that time why FreeBSD cannot allocate KVM at > interrupt time but CAN allocate physical memory at interrupt time. It > turns out there is a physical memory reserve for interrup

Re: cluster size

Bosko Milekic wrote: > > So, in general: > > > > 1)Only some allocators can be used at interrupt time > > 2)If they can, they must precommit kernel address space > > to the task > > 3)Once memory is allocated from one of these pools, it > > is never returned to the system f

Re: KNOTE()

> Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. > > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints > of an existing library and API. Yes, except these are problems of his own making because the library an

Re: Invoking a userland function from kerne

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, I need manage Timed Events: > > Two RTP related events must occur which are timed. They are: > > 1.RTCP (control RTP packages) reports must be sent periodically. > 2.BYE (a control RTP package) packets may be reconsidered for transmission. > > To support scheduli

Re: KNOTE()

Daniel Eischen wrote: > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints of an existing library and API. In retrospect, and given the information he has subsequently provided, kevent's are

Why objcopy --strip-debug instead of strip?

Hi folks, When the kernel is built as kernel.debug, why is it passed through objcopy --strip-debug before being installed, instead of being passed through strip? Background: I recently found that the Handbook instructions for "Debugging Loadable Modules Using GDB" is mostly useless for post-mo

Re: libc_r, signals and modifying sigcontext

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Dan, > > I tried this patch against 4.3-STABLE (had to substitute > _get_curthread() with _thread_run), without success. After > the sigreturn, EIP remains the same. Can you breakpoint

PCMCIA hot swap

Having recently upgraded from 4.0 to 4.3 on my laptop I've noticed that PCMCIA insertion and extraction doesn't work as it used to. The system (Vaio PCG-XG9) just freezes. Some time I'm able to rescue the situation inserting and extracting several times the offending card. Some time I have to p

Re: libc_r, signals and modifying sigcontext

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: Dan, I tried this patch against 4.3-STABLE (had to substitute _get_curthread() with _thread_run), without success. After the sigreturn, EIP remains the same. Should I be testing against -current ? -Arun > Try this patch: