PIC questions

2006-10-31 Thread Michael Bushkov
Hi, I've got 2 questions about PIC. 1. NO_PIC variable. It is defined in several places across the system sources. As an example: ./lib/libcompat/Makefile:NO_PIC= ./lib/libdisk/Makefile:NO_PIC= ./lib/libstand/Makefile:NO_PIC= ./lib/liby/Makefile:NO_PIC= What are the reasons for explicitly

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread perryh
IMHO many problems arise when someone tries to please even the stupidest user by writing a fool-proof software. To me the beauty of Unixes is that they are _not_ fool-proof, e.g. your are holding a real gun, you should be carefull not to point it to your head and pull the trigger. If we

Re: Email recommendations

2006-10-31 Thread tech
Thanks, but it's not over NFS. The problem was occurring on the last server, different hardware and earlier versions of the same software. I was surprised that it showed up again after the upgrade. I've had everything from garbage at the top of mail files, to missing colons in the From

Re: PIC questions

2006-10-31 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:26:31PM +0400, Michael Bushkov wrote: Hi, I've got 2 questions about PIC. 2. And theoretical question. Does every object that will be linked into the shared library should be built with PIC enabled? This is not so theoretical. This is required, for instance, for

Re: Obtaining used pages on process exit?

2006-10-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
Yan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently writing my first kernel module to extract data from the kernel and bring it into user-space. As I understand, FreeBSD only loads pages of the text segment that it is about to use by registering its handler for page faults, and bringing in more

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Valencia
Actually, I would like to support this motion... Thinking over the possible behaviours of -P is to sit in a room saying to delete or not to delete... If you think it over from a higher perspective, The UNIX Way (TM) is to have individual commands for specific tasks and to extract tasks from

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Daniel Valencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I would like to support this motion... Thinking over the possible behaviours of -P is to sit in a room saying to delete or not to delete... If you think it over from a higher perspective, The UNIX Way (TM) is to have individual

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Bakul Shah
Having thought this over some more, if a shred/scramble/scrub command is created in its own right, then a number of new features could be added that do not currently exist. - The command could be writen to protect a single file, or, it could also write to an entire file system/media.

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having thought this over some more, if a shred/scramble/scrub command is created in its own right, then a number of new features could be added that do not currently exist. - The command could be writen to protect a single file, or, it

Compile Issue: cannot find -ldl

2006-10-31 Thread Shane
Hi... What I'm on: FreeBSD/i386 version 6.1 What I'm doing: Trying to get PHP to compile against a Linux binary install of the Informix Client SDK, and I've been running into an issue I cannot correct. Compile Error: ... /usr/local/ifx/lib/esql/checkapi.o -lifglx -lcrypt -liconv -liconv -lm

Re: Compile Issue: cannot find -ldl

2006-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:07:05PM -0600, Shane wrote: Hi... What I'm on: FreeBSD/i386 version 6.1 What I'm doing: Trying to get PHP to compile against a Linux binary install of the Informix Client SDK, and I've been running into an issue I cannot correct. Compile Error: ...

sockstat tcp/udp switches

2006-10-31 Thread Josh Carroll
All, I have added two options to the sockstat command to list tcp and/or udp sockets. -t ([-]-tcp) :display tcp sockets -d ([-]-udp) : display udp sockets The previous command line options are unchanged, although I did change the use of getopt to getopt_long_only and added long

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread soralx
Having cleared my head a bit more, I realise most of this can be done with consecutive runs of 'dd'. I think I've reached a conclusion here. that is, install ports/sysutils/obliterate/? Tim. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___