GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Ben Fiedler
I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base (and yes, I am aware of Gordon's work on a man replacementhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Egordon/man.sh). In addition, I will be creating or (more likely) porting BSD-ish licensed feature-complete replacements for: diff, sort,

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 24.05.2010 at 00:08:30 -0700, Ben Fiedler wrote: I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base (and yes, I am aware of Gordon's work on a man replacementhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Egordon/man.sh). In addition, I will be creating or (more likely) porting

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 00:08:30 PDT Ben Fiedler wrote: I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base (and yes, I am aware of Gordon's work on a man replacementhttp://people.freebsd.org/%7Egordon/man.sh). In addition, I will be creating or (more likely) porting BSD-ish

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: I welcome this change, but groff is used for much more than manpages. What happens to pic, tbl, and the other troff-related little languages? How can you say mdocml is completely replacing groff if it doesn't support those kinds

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 12:17:01 PDT Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: I welcome this change, but groff is used for much more than manpages. What happens to pic, tbl, and the other troff-related little languages? How can you say mdocml is

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: I welcome this change, but groff is used for much more than manpages. What happens to pic, tbl, and the other troff-related little languages? How can you say

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:43:37PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: Would it support ps/dvi output ? Postscript output is the major goal of a GSoC project. Joerg ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Exposing Zone Sleeps

2010-05-24 Thread Sean Bruno
Find attached a patch against -CURRENT. This update exposes a counter that indicates the number of times that we sleep when attempting to allocate a slab from the keg. In other words, the number of times we BLOCK and wait, which is bad. This allows differentiation between times when we failed