Re: Looking for a mentor

2010-03-22 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:33:04PM -0700, Guillermo Amaral wrote: Hi FreeBSDers, I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community. :D I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land

/var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make delete-old`

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, with MK_BIND_ETC and MK_BIND set to 'no' in src.conf, var/named/etc/namedb/master should get deleted yet the directory still contains some files. that's why i'm getting rmdir: /var/named/etc/namedb/master: Directory not empty during `make delete-old`. does the attached patch look ok?

Re: /var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make delete-old`

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
sorry that should have been ...with MK_BIND_ETC or MK_BIND -- Alexander Best ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: Dominic Fandrey d...@des.no writes: It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are appropriate, but a lot

[patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 too. the following patch is a cosmetic change to have the bootloader identify itself as FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64. any thoughts on this one? -- Alexander Best Index:

Re: Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520

2010-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 21 March 2010 6:40:17 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: Someone on the forums [1] noticed that machdep.hlt_logical_cpus was unavailable on their system, and I did some poking around and noticed that it was as well. Should SMT logical CPUs be disable(-able) via machdep.hlt_logical_cpus as

Re: [patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge

2010-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: hi there, since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 too. the following patch is a cosmetic change to have the bootloader identify itself as FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64. any

dumping on a small swap partition

2010-03-22 Thread Dominic Fandrey
The swap partition of my notebook is only 4gb small, whereas the system has 8gb of RAM. Is there a way to convince the system of dumping despite this? The system panics quite often since I crossed the 4gb memory boundary and it never dumps. I think that a minidump should in most cases fit well

[patch] somebody please fix this outstanding mmap(2) bug

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
could somebody please commit this patch? it's been around forever (2003 or 2004) and fixes mmap so the offset argument is being ignored when MAP_ANON is defined (just like the mmap(2) manual says). right now the offset argument is being taken into account although MAP_ANON is set!!! the pr is

Re: [patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: hi there, since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 too. the following patch is a cosmetic change to have the bootloader identify

Re: [patch] somebody please fix this outstanding mmap(2) bug

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
oops. forgot the patch. ;) -- Alexander Best Index: sys/vm/vm_mmap.c === --- sys/vm/vm_mmap.c(revision 205390) +++ sys/vm/vm_mmap.c(working copy) @@ -241,19 +241,23 @@ ((prot (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)) !=

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C nroff -man formats .An name Aq email as name email, it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 name ⟨email⟩. These characters are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to

Re: Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520

2010-03-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:47 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2010 6:40:17 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: Someone on the forums [1] noticed that machdep.hlt_logical_cpus was unavailable on their system, and I did some poking around and noticed that it was as well. Should

Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

2010-03-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:05:52PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: And we probably have that usage in other man pages. It is not clear to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes or the use of .Aq for email addresses. I think the best option would be to sit down

Re: [patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge

2010-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 22 March 2010 11:20:10 am Alexander Best wrote: John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: hi there, since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 too. the following

Re: [patch] teach the bootloader minor amd64 knowledge

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 11:20:10 am Alexander Best wrote: John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 9:50:05 am Alexander Best wrote: hi there, since i386 and amd64 are sharing the same bootcode the bootloader gets named

Re: [patch] somebody please fix this outstanding mmap(2) bug

2010-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 22 March 2010 11:07:43 am Alexander Best wrote: could somebody please commit this patch? it's been around forever (2003 or 2004) and fixes mmap so the offset argument is being ignored when MAP_ANON is defined (just like the mmap(2) manual says). right now the offset argument is

Re: [patch] somebody please fix this outstanding mmap(2) bug

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 11:07:43 am Alexander Best wrote: could somebody please commit this patch? it's been around forever (2003 or 2004) and fixes mmap so the offset argument is being ignored when MAP_ANON is defined (just like the mmap(2) manual

Re: [patch] somebody please fix this outstanding mmap(2) bug

2010-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 22 March 2010 3:46:53 pm Alexander Best wrote: John Baldwin schrieb am 2010-03-22: On Monday 22 March 2010 11:07:43 am Alexander Best wrote: could somebody please commit this patch? it's been around forever (2003 or 2004) and fixes mmap so the offset argument is being ignored

PR commit requests

2010-03-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi hackers, Looking for someone with a src commit bit to take a look at a number of items that Mark Linimon has marked as `easy PRs': http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/easy_prs.html . A lot of the items there require that one just adds PCI IDs, fix a typo or two, etc and are

kenv - output needed

2010-03-22 Thread Atom Smasher
i'm trying to figure out what might be reasonable output from kenv. on the three machines that i have access to i'm already seeing wide variations of formatting and usefulness. i'd like to collect as much output as i can get (off-list should be fine) from one of these two commands: 1)