Re: What is HIDE_POSIX HIDE_BSD?

2002-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:58:16PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: While adding a system call, I notice in file syscall-hide.h there are many instances of HIDE_POSIX() and HIDE_BSD(). What is the purpose of these macros? Maybe they are now obsolete? The syscalls-hide.h file was generated from

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:53:41PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams write s: Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that

Re: multiple mounts of single device

2002-01-30 Thread KT Sin
man mount_nullfs. Remember to read the warning at the bottom of the man page. kt On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:14:35PM -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: brent I've been searching for info regarding mounting the same device brent to multiple locations in the filesystem, i.e... brent # mount

HOW to debug memory corruption efficiently?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Suetterlin
Hello everyone! I have a problem using some third party C++ library. After returning from a seemingly innocent function call my stack frame gets destroyed step by step --- and maybe other parts of memory as well. Unfortunately I'm neither proficient in C++ nor efficient in

RE: SurfBoard SB1000 cable modem in FreeBSD?

2002-01-30 Thread raymond hicks
If I recall correctly, doesn't the surfboard 1000-1100 service uni-directional cable? What kind of connection does your friend have? D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Re: SurfBoard SB1000 cable modem in FreeBSD?

2002-01-30 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:42:22AM -0500, raymond hicks wrote: uni-directional cable? What kind of connection does your friend have? He lives in a area where both isdn and adsl do not work. Furthermore, much for his dismay, bi-directional cable (actually radio) does not work due to

uiomove busted for the past 3 years

2002-01-30 Thread User JHB
When the DEADLKTREAT flag was added, uiomove() was broken. :) The problem is that a return() inside of a switch nested inside of a while loop was converted to a break leading to the following rather silly code: if (error) break;

Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-30 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I remember from reading the Lyons' book, there were 16 mapping descriptors for text and data each. I think, 1/16 of the address space is not too big, and in absolute values it's the size of today's pages (4KB). well I had dropped this

RE: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-30 Thread DOROVSKOY,IGOR (A-Portsmouth,ex1)
Once again Unix actually used this, the DEC OSes did not, so Unix was the first to find the bugs in this hardware too. I think the first sentence is not true. The RT-11 XM monitor uses the MMU hardware intensively even before Unix came to utilize it. I'm not talking about RSX-11, RSTS-E and

buildworld via ro mounted /usr/src

2002-01-30 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
hello everybody! i am trying to accomplish this (should be fairly easy) task: cvsupping /usr/ports /usr/src on a central file server. and building world/kernel via nfs mounts. in order not to get things mixed up i share /usr/ports and /usr/src ro and /usr/ports/distfiles, /usr/obj rw.

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Nate Williams
Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release of said source code. Well, I have never heard claims

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: A FreeBSD 1.X CVS tree has been found, which has it's first import as 386BSD 0.1 + PK 024. There are a couple minor points that need to be clarified from Caldera before it can be made public. Just curious, but will this be folded

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Nate Williams
A FreeBSD 1.X CVS tree has been found, which has it's first import as 386BSD 0.1 + PK 024. There are a couple minor points that need to be clarified from Caldera before it can be made public. Just curious, but will this be folded in the main CVS tree, or will it be available as a

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stijn Hoop writes: --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: A FreeBSD 1.X CVS tree has been found, which has

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:57:37PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stijn Hoop writes: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: A FreeBSD 1.X CVS tree has been found, which has it's first import as 386BSD 0.1 + PK 024. There are a couple

Re: multiple mounts of single device

2002-01-30 Thread .
Brent Verner writes: Hi, I've been searching for info regarding mounting the same device to multiple locations in the filesystem, i.e... # mount /dev/ad0s1e /usr # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr There was a time I mounted the same

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this I just got a 3com 3c996B-T with a bcm5701 chip. It doesn't work with a kernel built from 4.5-RC source pulled Friday: the gigabit phy goes unrecognized, gets

Re: uiomove busted for the past 3 years

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas Moestl
On Wed, 2002/01/30 at 07:02:25 -0800, User JHB wrote: When the DEADLKTREAT flag was added, uiomove() was broken. :) The problem is that a return() inside of a switch nested inside of a while loop was converted to a break leading to the following rather silly code:

Re: What is HIDE_POSIX HIDE_BSD?

2002-01-30 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I can't guess what does it mean by hiding. Maybe any system call can be hidden from some configuration of the kernel. -Zhihui On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:58:16PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: While adding a system call, I notice in file

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:41:05AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: From investigating the Linux driver, I gather there are a few features in these chips which may need workarounds (e.g., the Debian driver includes a new firmware image for some 5701 revs'; and forces master mode in some revs,

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've had alot of trouble with the builtin card in our Dell 2550s. I'm going to try swapping hardware to see if we've got a bad machine, but I suspect the chip is just plain broken. Well, it seems to work OK with the Linux

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 January 2002 at 9:41:15 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release

kernel fork execve

2002-01-30 Thread Jonathan BENSAMOUN
Hi, I would like to add a new syscall in my kernel which execute an execve in a forked process. I call the fork1 function and hook inside it to execute my execve. Has anyone an example of calling execve from kernel ? I have some problem to pass the arguments ... Thanks To Unsubscribe: send

RE: SurfBoard SB1000 cable modem in FreeBSD?

2002-01-30 Thread raymond hicks
If that is the case... then the cable modem should have an address on the LAN side of it.. something like 192.168.100.1 which should be accessable via web browser. That is how the surfboard cable modems are managed. Once other thing is that the cable modem will fail to connect from Netscape as

if_rl.c autoneg fix

2002-01-30 Thread TD790
The problem I was having with the if_rl driver not working properly when connected to a 10Mb hub (ie no link partner capabilities) can be fixed by removing a line with a cryptic comment about broken autonegotiation. in the file /sys/dev/mii/rlphy.c: void rlphy_reset(sc) struct

Re: kernel fork execve

2002-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
check where init is called from.. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan BENSAMOUN wrote: Hi, I would like to add a new syscall in my kernel which execute an execve in a forked process. I call the fork1 function and hook inside it to execute my execve. Has anyone an example of calling execve

Re: kernel fork execve

2002-01-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020130 16:09] wrote: check where init is called from.. Y'know, exec call could be made into a do_exec, all that seems to matter is whether or not uap-fname is UIO_USERSPACE or UIO_SYSSPACE. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan BENSAMOUN wrote: Hi, I would

Re: HOW to debug memory corruption efficiently?

2002-01-30 Thread Darryl Okahata
Robert Suetterlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I'm neither proficient in C++ nor efficient in debugging, so I stumble around the problem rather blindfolded. Once I blamed the compiler, systemlibraries and operating system, I knew I needed some help. The problem appeared on

JKH - Jr. Kernel Hacker task

2002-01-30 Thread David O'Brien
Right now one must hardcode compile the BPS rate into the kernel for serial consoles. This is just ridden with problems when machines move, or configurations shared. It would be really nice if the kernel would get the BPS rate from a loader environmental var instead of having it hard coded. --

Re: HOW to debug memory corruption efficiently?

2002-01-30 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I would give Insure a try if you can't afford Purify. Either one is better than just about anything else you'll find in the open source world. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses. Any chance the miidevs hack and phy workarounds will make it into -current or FreeBSD 4.5? I'm not going to commit anything unless/until I get the driver working properly with the 5701, including

Re: JKH - Jr. Kernel Hacker task

2002-01-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Right now one must hardcode compile the BPS rate into the kernel for : serial consoles. This is just ridden with problems when machines move, : or configurations shared. : : It would be really nice if the kernel

Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5

2002-01-30 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 02:31 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Brian T.Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:17:27 -0500 On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:53 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:14 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander

Re: JKH - Jr. Kernel Hacker task

2002-01-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:56:13PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: Right now one must hardcode compile the BPS rate into the kernel for serial consoles. This is just ridden with problems when machines move, or configurations shared. It would be really nice if the kernel would get the BPS rate