Garrett Wollman wrote:
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:23:07 -0400, Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was advised by Terry Lambert to use:
#ifdef _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS
Terry was wrong. If _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS is undefined, it means
one of two things:
- The RTS option is not
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
I'm sure that if we drive the 3060 as a NATM interface, we can write generic
netgraph code to attach to a link layer ATM interface and examine inbound
ATM UNI cells for their VPI*VCI and act accordingly.
This will certainly require ngatm and is a
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To: Terry Lambert
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:26:14PM
Hardly reassuring from all the recent train crashes really :P
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:29:48PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
To be totally correct, you will need to:
#ifdef _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS
#if (_POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS != -1)
...
#endif
#endif
It's annoying, but
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
Earlier this year on the FreeBSD hackers mailing list:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=278142+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020317.freebsd-hackers
I was advised by Terry Lambert to use:
#ifdef _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS
On 2002-10-10 01:07, Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the test is:
#ifdef _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS
#if _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS 0
...or, if you want to assume all preprocessors support #if:
#if defined(_POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS) (_POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS 0)
I think the first is
On 09-Oct-2002 Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
i4o beke wrote:
Hi Guido. I've seen your question on freebsd-mobile, without answer.
I'd like to buy i-buddie, 3c or 4. So your problems with setup are
really interesting for me.
Is your sis network card working? Is it possible to
run XWin on
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:31:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
Perhaps because they wanted you to use sysconf() instead of these mistakes.
Well in the case of ACE, it is a C++ library that is compiled on
platforms which may or may not have sysconf() (ie. Windows), so using sysconf() is
not
It has been a long time since I dealt with those
arcane security matters. At least they are obscure
and arcane to most people. Many consider me
to be babbling when I go on about these things.
If I start saying rainbow books (the NSA's security
books are in different colors) many people assume
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Wolfieee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what about vnconfiging some files on the netapp thing, this way the
*bsd can see the vnconfig files as local raw disk partitions?
That wouldn't make a difference, because the NetApp Filer would still
schedule
In the last episode (Oct 10), Attila Nagy said:
Due to the lack of enough networking power I started to think about
alternatives.
[ snip pic of SCSI RAID with 3 servers hanging off it ]
The question is: what will happen if BOX3 mounts the filesystem from
the SCSI BOX RW and BOX[1-2] mount
I'm by no means a kernel guy and don't really pretend to be one, but
I'm certainly willing to learn given some simple docs. I'm trying to
port the bigforth forth compiler to FreeBSD and am having a miserable
time doing so because bigforth isn't written in a very generic way.
That said, I'm
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I think the first is safer, in that if #if is not supported, it
being an undefined preprocessor directive would be non-fatal,
being in an uncompiled #ifdef block...
Well, almost. There is one exception. A compiler that doesn't support
#if but happens to run in
Bruce Evans wrote:
In Standard C, this is equivalent to the non-verbose version:
#if _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS != -1
...
#endif
since if _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS is not defined then it is equivalent to
0 in cpp expressions. The problem cases are if
Bruce Evans wrote:
_POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS is defined to 0:
This means that the interface may work, and that it exists in headers and
libraries, so applications may reference it in normal ways. It may fail
at runtime; applications must use sysconf() to determine if it is actually
Scott Hess wrote:
That wouldn't make a difference, because the NetApp Filer would still
schedule mtime updates for evey write access to the file that has been
vnconfiged on the client.
Probably talking through my hat, here, but doesn't NetApp use a LFS
(log-structured file system)
Nelson, Trent . wrote:
Oh, and Terry, I think you'd be astonished if I informed you of how
many rail control systems in the US and around the world use either Linux or
some of the commercial variants such as Tru64 UNIX or Solaris.
I rather think they run Solaris.
Earlier in my career
Hi,
I've written to the questions list recently with regard to a panic that keeps
occuring
and perhaps my message was not formatted as well as it could have been. In more
testing
it seems that the minute the ipfw rules are loaded (which previously worked without
issue),
the machine
On Oct 05 at 15:05, Soeren Schmidt spoke:
Too late, I've already added support for the Sil 0680 chip in both
-current and -stable. BTW it was not supported before that (not even
Does any of the Sil 0648/0649/0680 support DMA for ATAPI devices,
particularly for Plextor CD-R PX-W4012A?
abe wrote:
I've written to the questions list recently with regard to a
panic that keeps occuring and perhaps my message was not formatted
as well as it could have been. In more testing it seems that the
minute the ipfw rules are loaded (which previously worked without
issue), the
Hi Luigi,
Pardon, been a hectic week. Heh. I've tried this on fresh installs of
4.5-rel, 4.5-rel-p20, 4.6.2-p2, and 4.7-RC.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:39:48PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
what freebsd version are you using, are you using compiled-in ipfw or
a module ?
cheers
Hi Terry,
This started out as a sudden panic on a machine that was in a datacenter
for more than 8 months without issue. Then I installed on fresh machines,
compiled in ipfw support, and also tried this as a module. The result is the same
regardless.
Regards,
Abe
On Thu, Oct 10,
Do you mean recompile SSL using urandom instead of random ?
Would it be the exact same effect if I simply changed my /dev/random to
major/minor 2,4 instead of 2,3 ?
It seems like that would be much easier...
Ok, I am not sure how I can do that though - I cannot successfully run
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nelson, Trent . wrote:
If you're referring to security criteria (Trusted Computer
Security Evaluation Criteria or ITSEC for Euro/UK), then no, FreeBSD
doesn't currently provide any features C2/F-C2+ configuration (Access
Control Lists, auditing, accountability,
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Steve Kudlak wrote:
It has been a long time since I dealt with those arcane security
matters. At least they are obscure and arcane to most people. Many
consider me to be babbling when I go on about these things. If I start
saying rainbow books (the NSA's security books
abe wrote:
This started out as a sudden panic on a machine that was in a
datacenter for more than 8 months without issue. Then I installed
on fresh machines, compiled in ipfw support, and also tried this as
a module. The result is the same regardless.
You have a traceback; do you have
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:18:58PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
abe wrote:
This started out as a sudden panic on a machine that was in a
datacenter for more than 8 months without issue. Then I installed
on fresh machines, compiled in ipfw support, and also tried this as
a module.
Robert Watson wrote:
The first thing you are
probably interested in is the Common Criteria description, which I believe
is available from ISO.
...which answers the how do I get it? followup question that
naturally comes from the CAPP/LSPP profile references for the
various EAL levels: You pay
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
Robert Watson wrote:
The first thing you are
probably interested in is the Common Criteria description, which I believe
is available from ISO.
...which answers the how do I get it? followup question that naturally
comes from the CAPP/LSPP
abe wrote:
You have a traceback; do you have a system dump?
Sorry Terry, unfortunately it wouldn't produce a system dump unless
I was not taking the proper steps to produce one. Any URL that would
point this out to me or any suggestion?
Poul changed this code. I haven't been able to get
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:34:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
Are ISO standards still on the order of US$9 per single-sided page? I
just got my copies of the ECMA standards on CDROM (for free...).
You can get ISO 15408 (Common Criteria) from ANSI:
Craig Rodrigues wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:34:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
[ ... where to get security standards ... ]
Cool. You guys are a wealth of information..
Robert: any chance of this finding its way into a docs secion on
the TrustedBSD.org web site?
-- Terry
To
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
Roman V. Mashak wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:07:43PM -0400, Steve Kudlak wrote:
project and mucking with the low grade in my opinion C-2 security
that Sun OSes had and finding bugs in things like FTP logging and
the like. I now do other
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
Craig Rodrigues wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:34:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
[ ... where to get security standards ... ]
Cool. You guys are a wealth of information..
Robert: any chance of this finding its way into a docs secion on
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:50:47PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
abe wrote:
You have a traceback; do you have a system dump?
Sorry Terry, unfortunately it wouldn't produce a system dump unless
I was not taking the proper steps to produce one. Any URL that would
point this out to me or
My sis900 network card is behaves in 4.7 as it did in 4.6.2:
it still complains 'MII without any PHY!' The least i can say is that
this is utterly frustrating...
--
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I installed 4.7 in a free partition on a machine that has a Lilo
configuration to boot either Win2K or Mandrake 8.2.
After installing the FreeBsd Boot Manager, I get following options:
F1 ??
F2 Linux
F3 ??
F4 FreeBSD
F4 works and F1 boots into Win2K.
F2 and F3 beep at me but do not boot
What would be the best way to read/write from a device that shows up on boot,
but there is no device node for it?
Basically what I am trying to do is to be able to send to commands to the csa
device so that I can control the breakout box for my GameTheatre XP so I
don't get
Hello,
I have a question, please include me in the reply specifically because I'm
not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks
I want a thread to spin atomically on a value until it's equal to 1(i.e.
it's waiting for an event), how do I do that? I have no idea.. I want this
to be fast, not have
abe wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:50:47PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
You should be able to find out the C code at assembly code offset
0x172, assuming you created your kernel with config -g, and you
***
compiled the
Anish Mistry wrote:
What would be the best way to read/write from a device that shows up on boot,
but there is no device node for it?
I'll go out on a limb here and say Create a device node for it.
-- Terry
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:10:52PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
abe wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:50:47PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
You should be able to find out the C code at assembly code offset
0x172, assuming you created your kernel with config -g, and you
Bill,
Any hint as to what seems to be going on here and maybe a clue
to a possible solution?
Regards,
Abe
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:02:07PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:10:52PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Not to be emphatic, or anything, but IPFW has to
Hello folks,
Recently I have been corresponding with several from this list and questions@ with
regard to an odd issue with ipfw and my machine panicing after any network
communication
was attempted after loading some IPFW rules.
Some evidence of the panics can be found at:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:46:36AM -0400, abe wrote:
Unfortunately, feedback sent while in good intentions did not help. However, in
further
tinkering with this issue I believe I've come to a conclusion. I run a rather
high-traffic
server so I had initially increased
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:50:13PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:46:36AM -0400, abe wrote:
Unfortunately, feedback sent while in good intentions did not help. However,
in further
tinkering with this issue I believe I've come to a conclusion. I run a rather
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:41:00AM +0200, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
I installed 4.7 in a free partition on a machine that has a Lilo
configuration to boot either Win2K or Mandrake 8.2.
After installing the FreeBsd Boot Manager, I get following options:
F1 ??
F2 Linux
F3 ??
F4 FreeBSD
Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:10:52PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Not to be emphatic, or anything, but IPFW has to be static. There
is voodoo you can use to make it know about loaded modules, but I'll
be damned if I know what it is (again, I refer you to the handbook).
abe wrote:
gdb -k kernel.debug
list *add_dyn_rule+0x172
(kgdb) list *add_dyn_rule+0x172
No source file for address 0xc021e5d6
(kgdb)
Not to be emphatic, or anything, but IPFW has to be static.
I thought it was static considering I compiled the kernel with
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