Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-23 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:56:39AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:21:16PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > > > > Just asking opinions, if people want this, I'll make a patch and > > > file a PR. > > > > > > > Is this script correct? > > We're starting to use SSDs for boot drive

What tty changes - question on porting ltmdm and hcfmdm to FreeBSD 8

2010-04-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, I have a pager monitoring system built on FreeBSD 6.4 that uses the ltmdm driver. (ltmdm is a "controllerless winmodem") I was looking into updating to FreeBSD 8 and I see that ltmdm and hcfmdm are now both broken. hcfmdm broke on FreeBSD 7 but it is easily patched to build on tha

RE: idle threads

2010-04-23 Thread Matthew Fleming
> then they rightly passes sched_idletd(). Any scheduler may define its > own version of sched_idletd(). Oops, youre right, I was just unable to read at the end of the day on Friday. Thanks! matthew ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: idle threads

2010-04-23 Thread Attilio Rao
2010/4/24 Matthew Fleming : > I'm looking at kern_idle.c in stable/7 and I don't quite follow how idle > threads work.  The kthread_create(9) call does not pass in a function > pointer, so what code does a processor run when there is no other > runnable thread? In STABLE_7: ... #ifdef SMP

idle threads

2010-04-23 Thread Matthew Fleming
I'm looking at kern_idle.c in stable/7 and I don't quite follow how idle threads work. The kthread_create(9) call does not pass in a function pointer, so what code does a processor run when there is no other runnable thread? Thanks, matthew ___ freebsd-

Re: c question

2010-04-23 Thread Philip Herron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:18:46PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> - use a matrix is faster than use a linked list? >> For what? >> For insertion and deletion no - linked list is faster. For sequential >> access they are the s

Re: c question

2010-04-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 23 April 2010 17:40:12 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:18:46PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > - use a matrix is faster than use a linked list? > > > > For what? > > For insertion and deletion no - linked list is faster. For sequential > > access they are the same s

Re: c question

2010-04-23 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:18:46PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > > - use a matrix is faster than use a linked list? > > For what? > For insertion and deletion no - linked list is faster. For sequential > access they are the same speed (forgetting look-ahead caching). For > random access matrix is fa

Re: RevLin OS: Help wanted

2010-04-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 22/04/2010 18:04 RevLin Software said the following: > Hello All > > My name is Patrick Quinn > > I am currently part of a team working on a new operating system called > RevLin OS. RevLin OS will use a new desktop environment called RaVe that is > coded almost entirely in web language (Css ht

Re: I want to participate in some FreeBSD project

2010-04-23 Thread Eitan Adler
> Quoting Equixen- (from Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:05:12 +0530): > >> Hello! >> I am a 3rd year B.Tech (Computer Science) student. I want to >> participate in some open source project during my summer vacations. >> >> I thought about going the Google summer of code way but due to limited >> knowledge an

Re: c question

2010-04-23 Thread Eitan Adler
> - use a matrix is faster than use a linked list? For what? For insertion and deletion no - linked list is faster. For sequential access they are the same speed (forgetting look-ahead caching). For random access matrix is faster. ___ freebsd-hackers@fre

Re: libc NLS, NFS mounted /usr/local, DHCP, no default route causes hangs

2010-04-23 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:40:36PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > The patch: > > Index: lib/libc/nls/msgcat.c > === > --- lib/libc/nls/msgcat.c (revision 206760) > +++ lib/libc/nls/msgcat.c (working copy) > @@ -138,6 +138,9 @

Re: libc NLS, NFS mounted /usr/local, DHCP, no default route causes hangs

2010-04-23 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:17:36PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > The changes to use NLS for strerror sometimes cause one of my virtual > machines to deadlock. This virtual machine runs 9-CURRENT, acquires its > IP address via DHCP (virtualbox host-only networking), has no default > route and has

regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-23 Thread Robert Huff
Aryeh M. Friedman writes: > I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it > possible to rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade > installed) (I'm assuming you have _completely_ deleted the contents of /var/db/pkg.) If you have not deleted /usr/ports/distf

libc NLS, NFS mounted /usr/local, DHCP, no default route causes hangs

2010-04-23 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
The changes to use NLS for strerror sometimes cause one of my virtual machines to deadlock. This virtual machine runs 9-CURRENT, acquires its IP address via DHCP (virtualbox host-only networking), has no default route and has /usr/local and /usr/home NFS mounted. When the DHCP lease expires such a

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 23 April 2010 2:50:15 am Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of > Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take > > care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only ex

Re: /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC COMPAT_FREEBSD7 a prerequisite for COMPAT_IA32

2010-04-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Gary Jennejohn wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > > > > > Hi hack...@freebsd.org > > > > with amd64, but not with i386, > > > > /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC COMPAT_FREEBSD7 is an undocemneted > > > > pre-requisite for COMPAT_IA32 > > > >

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:38:14 -0700 Steve Franks wrote: > > It's much safer to just leave the libraries alone. __Just because you > > upgraded libpng doesn't mean that your old gtk binary will stop working > > (assuming you are using "portupgrade" or "portmaster -w" which preserves old > > Untr

Re: Bug with fixit live 8.0 memstick.img running on F1 after MBR

2010-04-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Ken, cc hackers@, re@ > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:09 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi hackers@, > > No replies in over 4 days to this, so this is a repost,=20 > > I've also added re@ as newish memstick.img might interest them ? > > > (The live command prompt on F4 wasn't much use, no ls

Re: How to change vnode operations ?

2010-04-23 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (23/04/2010 08:10), Lukáš Czerner wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:18:49 +0300 > > From: Gleb Kurtsou > > To: Lukáš Czerner > > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: How to change vnode operations ? > > > > On (22/04/2010 16:02), Lu

Keyboard scancodes

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
I was recently given an original Happy Hacking Keyboard. As I sometimes work in the FreeBSD console, I wanted to have my usual console keymap adjusted to the new keyboard, but didn't know the scancode for the HHKB meta key (the diamond key). I couldn't find any program in base or ports that would s