Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-14 Thread Terry Lambert
Jos Backus wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:45:18AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Why use pid files at all if you could be using a process supervisor instead? Who supervises the supervisor? Heh. The supervisor should be small and robust, like init. Has init died on you recently? Do you

Re: Multiple IPs in Jail

2003-11-14 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:01:23AM -0800, FB wrote: + Before the patch was applied, the jail environment had no problem with dns. + After the patch was applied however (and userland rebuilt both on host and + jail), dns breaks in the jail environment. Basically, gethostbyname fails + and h_errno

netstat(8) GEN and per-CPU caches

2003-11-14 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Hi, When is the GEN cache used ? My desktop machine never has mbufs in the GEN pool but some other machine (acting as gateways in small/medium-sized networks) do have them. DESKTOP (no load at all) mbuf usage: GEN cache: 0/0 (in use/in pool) CPU #0 cache: 1/128 (in

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Langille
Daniel: It appears the patch which was comitted didn't include everything it should. I blame myself because the patch below contains both debugging code and is reversed. I will submit a PR with a patch. In brief, what is missing is: + if (n == 0) { +

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Nov 2003 at 10:08, Dan Langille wrote: Daniel: It appears the patch which was comitted didn't include everything it should. I blame myself because the patch below contains both debugging code and is reversed. I will submit a PR with a patch. In brief, what is missing is: +

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 14 November 2003 01:45 am, Terry Lambert wrote: Jos Backus wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:45:18AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: There are also the small issues of ordering (the reason you can't just run everything out of /etc/ttys via init in the first place), Sure. Hard

Errors in USB subsystem and bktr driver

2003-11-14 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
Hi, I have just filed kern/59290 about an error in all usb ethernet drivers that can crash a system and kern/59289 about small error in an ioctl in the bktr driver. (Both with patch). Anyone interrested in fixing them? grtz, Daan ___ [EMAIL

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-14 Thread Jos Backus
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:45:45AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Jos Backus wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:45:18AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Why use pid files at all if you could be using a process supervisor instead? Who supervises the supervisor? Heh. The supervisor should

MAJOR number

2003-11-14 Thread Roman Kurakin
Hi, I need a new MAJOR number for our new device. How can I get it? I've read that FreeBSD doesn't use them any more. But we may need it to not interfere with other device drivers in previous releases of FreeBSD. ??? ce Cronyx Tau-32 E1 adapter ___ Best regars, Roman

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-11-14 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Dan Langille wrote: Daniel: It appears the patch which was comitted didn't include everything it should. I blame myself because the patch below contains both debugging code and is reversed. I will submit a PR with a patch. In brief, what is missing is: +

Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Clifton Royston
Is this as good a list as any for observations on the FreeBSD make release process? I can't see any other list that fits the subject. I have some observations fairly fresh in my mind from trying to build a version of FreeBSD 4.8.12 with the IBM Propolice anti-stack-smash patch. This was

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: Is this as good a list as any for observations on the FreeBSD make release process? I can't see any other list that fits the subject. Did you dig into http://www.freebsd.org/releng/#docs ? -- | / o / /_ _

Problems with uthread_kern.c in FreeBSD-5.1-p10

2003-11-14 Thread Kris von Mach
Hello, I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here it goes. There seems to be problems with uthread_kern.c and maybe other parts of libc/threads in FreeBSD-5.1-p10. Here are some details about the system: FreeBSD vorlon.swishmail.com 5.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: Is this as good a list as any for observations on the FreeBSD make release process? I can't see any other list that fits the subject. Did you dig into

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:07, Clifton Royston wrote: I have some observations fairly fresh in my mind from trying to build a version of FreeBSD 4.8.12 with the IBM Propolice anti-stack-smash patch. This was intended as a quick prelude to trying to build our own internal release with a

Revised sort utility

2003-11-14 Thread Tim Robbins
I announced my BSD-licensed reimplementation of sort(1) on this list a few months ago. Since then I've fixed many bugs found by my own testing and the GNU textutils test suite, and vastly improved performance for many common cases (e.g. the fast path is now qsort() - memcmp()). The new version is

New complaints

2003-11-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
checking stopevent 2 with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex sigacts r = 0 (0xc48c5aa8) locked @ kern/subr_trap.c:260 checking stopevent 2 with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex sigacts r = 0 (0xc48c5aa8) locked @ kern/subr_trap.c:260 Lots

Re: New complaints

2003-11-14 Thread Don Lewis
On 14 Nov, M. Warner Losh wrote: checking stopevent 2 with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex sigacts r = 0 (0xc48c5aa8) locked @ kern/subr_trap.c:260 checking stopevent 2 with the following non-sleepable locks held: exclusive sleep mutex sigacts r = 0 (0xc48c5aa8)

Re: New complaints

2003-11-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : There have been an number of reports of this earlier today. I just : upgraded and got bit by it as, too. The culprit is sys/sys/proc.h : 1.359. People on irc have since told me this is a known issue and is being