Re: Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Jan-12 23:54:38 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >a) Rewrite file descriptor handling in libc_r so it does not set O_NONBLOCK >on tty file descriptors unless it is in the foreground. I don't know how >hard this would be, or whether it even applies to -current with its profusion >of threadi

Module getting loaded although init fuction returns error

2005-01-12 Thread Tejas Sumant
Hi All, I am working on a FreeBSD loadable module. While loading if I encounter any error I just have returned ENXIO error. I run commond kldstat after kldload. What I observed was kldstat still shows my module in the list of loaded modules. Can anybody pls explain me this? Is it a problem wit

Re: RC scripts and NIS UPDATE

2005-01-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
Well I got it working. It adds two more variables to rc.conf. nis_server_available_test: Toggles nis test on or off nis_avail_tester: script to use for testing If the script exits with a 1, NIS is not enabled. I am currently using a script that ,using md5, hashes the out put from arp and compare

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2005-01-12 Thread Kip Macy
Taking this off list. -Kip On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Siddharth Aggarwal wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > I understand the complexity of checkpointing a process and I do agree that > capturing the complete state of a system is really difficult. So my > question is

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2005-01-12 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Thanks for your reply. I understand the complexity of checkpointing a process and I do agree that capturing the complete state of a system is really difficult. So my question is that if a subset of that functinality was to be implemented (e.g. not guaranteeing certain things to processes when the

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2005-01-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:17:38PM -0700, Siddharth Aggarwal wrote: > > I am responding to a post back in Oct 2003 when the checkpointing feature > was announced for DragonFly. I have been doing some research on this, and > have seen some projects that use Xen VMM to achieve checkpoints of guest >

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2005-01-12 Thread Kip Macy
I've promised Nate to port the functionality to FreeBSD. I'm busy doing some things with the FreeBSD port to Xen at the moment. Checkpointing a process is intrinsically messy for reasons beyond the obvious statefulness of TCP connections. Process state, particularly with regard to devices, is of

process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2005-01-12 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Hi all, I am responding to a post back in Oct 2003 when the checkpointing feature was announced for DragonFly. I have been doing some research on this, and have seen some projects that use Xen VMM to achieve checkpoints of guest OSes. So I was looking for inputs from people as to what everyone f

Need help analyzing a 5.3-RELEASE-p2 crash

2005-01-12 Thread Olafur Osvaldsson
This is what I got, could someone help me with the next steps? == Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x413db14b fault code = supervisor write, page not presen

Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 on an Athlon 2100+ with 768MB of ram and software mirrored 160GB Seagate disks. All pretty straightforward so far. I'm currently a couple of DAYS into compiling Open Office 1.1.3, and while I can tell you all sorts of stories of trouble and woe, I want to concent

Re: Picture CDs ?

2005-01-12 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; The PictureCD mounted with the same command suggested by the mount_cd9660 page for PhotoCDs. I think the difference is that while Picture CDs use jpeg, the PhotoCDs use a Kodak proprietary format. I just learned that the netpbm distributed via Ibiblio has a PhotoCD converter available (it was

Re: Picture CDs ?

2005-01-12 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Thanks! I should've posted this in -questions or check the handbook carefully. Pedro. --- Zera William Holladay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > It's odd but I couldn't mount a Picture CD on FreeBSD 5.2.1. This is pretty > > weird as Win

Re: Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
On Wednesday, 12th January 2005, Stephen McKay wrote: >[Problems during Open Office compilation on FreeBSD 4.11-RC2] >After some tracing, I have worked out that the tty is being alternately >set to nonblocking and back to normal hundreds of times during the compilation >of Open Office, and that's

Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
[You may see this message twice as it got stuck in the ^$&#@ moderation queue.] Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 on an Athlon 2100+ with 768MB of ram and software mirrored 160GB Seagate disks. All pretty straightforward so far. I'm currently a couple of DAYS into compiling Open Office 1.1.3, an