FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I'm not regularly reading hackers these days, but I was pointed to the amazing FUD being spread here. Please keep me in the Cc: if you want me to see your replies. The fact that the CGD author(s) engage in this FUD spreading in random mailing lists rather than contact me directly speaks speaks

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that the CGD author(s) engage in this FUD spreading in random mailing lists rather than contact me directly speaks speaks for itself, but here are my replies to some of the points raised: Obviously this is a part of some aggressive NetBSD advocacy campaign

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], ALeine writes: 1. Introducing a sysctl variable to control how often (after how many writes) the random key is regenerated: kern.geom.bde.random_key_regeneration_cycle The way it works now would correspond to the value being 1 with regeneration happening on every

Re: RFC: backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch

2005-03-02 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], ALeine writes: I find using a single key for the whole disk less secure and not very practical when one wants to change the key because it takes a very long time to re-encrypt the entire disk. However, having a separate per-sector key which is changed on every write

RFC: [conf/78257, PATCH] /etc/rc.d/memdisk for /dev/md* creation at startup

2005-03-02 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
Hello hackers, Could you take a look at my PR which contains rc.d/ script for attaching memory disks managed with mdconfig(8) on system startup: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/78257 Comments are welcome. Best regards, -- * Wojciech A. Koszek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Remote kernel debugging using GDB

2005-03-02 Thread Leubner, Achim
Hello all, I want to do some remote kernel debugging using GDB on FreeBSD 5.3. I connected host and target with a null-modem cable on COM1 and made a debug kernel with options GDB, options DDB, options KDB and makeoptions DEBUG=-g and I set the port flags of sio0 to 0x80. But if I start

kernel core dump

2005-03-02 Thread Yan Yu
Hi, I have a Q on generating kernel core dump when the system boots up.. my kernel crashes when it tries to mount the root device, /, i.e., before it adding the swap device to the system (so there is no swap device when the system tries to generate core dump).. I am wondering is there a way to

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Roland Dowdeswell
On 1109758470 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: So how about it guys: Instead of spreading FUD, lets work together and make the world an even better place ? I am hoping that the discussion will yield infomation that will allow each of us to improve our

Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-02 Thread Lucas Holt
Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need more cpu time than vi? Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity that might block right? On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: If you make 1000 threads, you get

Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-02 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need more cpu time than vi? No. That is not a given. Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity that might block right? Threads

Re: Dynamically Linked Library Problem (maybe)

2005-03-02 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:48:14PM +0200, Cole wrote: Hey. I have a Freebsd server running freebsd-4.9-stable. I cvsupped the ntop src last week for 3.1.1. I then had no problems what so ever building ntop, except for the xml plugin saying it was not built, cause it cannot find

Re: retricted environment

2005-03-02 Thread c0ldbyte
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Matt wrote: When providing a shell environment for a larger number of users, what is the best way to retrict access to commands/resources? I've already setup quotas. I don't want users playing with system commands. I've read something about a retricted shell, but can't

Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Lucas Holt wrote: Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need more cpu time than vi? Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity that might block right? Isn't that what nice is for? if (only) two processes are using all the

Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Kamal R. Prasad wrote: --- Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need more cpu time than vi? No. That is not a given. Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity that might

truss bug + PATCH, pls review

2005-03-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Can someone review this? I think 'u' is incorrectly added to instead of assigned to. This causes the initial calculation to be garage based and screws up displaying poll information. I'd like this to be MFC'd before 5.4 if possible. Index: syscalls.c

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roland Dowdeswell wri tes: Let's discuss a simple example and see how it works. Let's walk through a user login, with /etc/passwd on GBDE and the filesystem mounted with mtime. These days, on the majority of low cost disks used in enduser configurations you risk

Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-02 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kamal R. Prasad wrote: --- Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need more cpu time than vi? No. That is not a given. Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of