Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:34:51 -0400 Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for getting rid of rc.d scripts, yes they're decrepit and I would love to see them go but they're simple and third party software may depend

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-06 Thread Michael B Allen
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To who it may concern, I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. In Solaris 10

Re: Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-30 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jilles Tjoelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:11:26PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: Below is a semtimedop(2) implementation that I'm using for FreeBSD. I was hoping someone could look it over and tell me if they think the implementation

Re: Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 07:11:26 pm Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, Below is a semtimedop(2) implementation that I'm using for FreeBSD. I was hoping someone could look it over and tell me if they think the implementation

Re: Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:15 PM, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2008 01:42:31 pm Michael B Allen wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 07:11:26 pm Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, Below is a semtimedop

Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-13 Thread Michael B Allen
Hi, Below is a semtimedop(2) implementation that I'm using for FreeBSD. I was hoping someone could look it over and tell me if they think the implementation is sound. The code seems to work ok but when stressing the FreeBSD build of my app I have managed to provoke errors related to concurrency

Re: Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-13 Thread Michael B Allen
On 7/13/08, Mikko Työläjärvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, Below is a semtimedop(2) implementation that I'm using for FreeBSD. I was hoping someone could look it over and tell me if they think the implementation is sound. The code seems

Pls sanity check my semtimedop(2) implementation

2008-07-12 Thread Michael B Allen
Hi, Below is a semtimedop(2) implementation that I'm using for FreeBSD. I was hoping someone could look it over and tell me if they think the implementation is sound. The code seems to work ok but when stressing the FreeBSD build of my app I have managed to provoke errors related to concurrency

timers and semtimedop(2)

2007-11-01 Thread Michael B Allen
Hi, I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT maybe. Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver the signal? What sort of timers does FreeBSD offer? Thanks, Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Active Directory SPNEGO SSO http://www.ioplex.com

Re: timers and semtimedop(2)

2007-11-01 Thread Michael B Allen
On 11/1/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT maybe. I presume you mean SIGALRM. Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver

Get pid of child that has exited?

2007-07-20 Thread Michael B Allen
Hello, How does one get the pid if a child process that has exited? On other systems this is available in siginfo_t but si_pid seems to be 0. Is that normal? Mike ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Get pid of child that has exited?

2007-07-20 Thread Michael B Allen
On 7/20/07, Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How does one get the pid if a child process that has exited? On other systems this is available in siginfo_t but si_pid seems to be 0. Is that normal? Nevermind. I see siginfo_t isn't portable. I'm using waitpid now. Mike

Path to executable of current process?

2007-07-19 Thread Michael B Allen
Hello, I'm looking for an example that uses kvm_getargv but from just googling around I can't seem to find an example. Can someone give me a pointer? Actually what I'm *really* trying to do is port some code that invokes GDB to do a backtrace and I need to give GDB the path to the executable of

Re: Path to executable of current process?

2007-07-19 Thread Michael B Allen
On 7/19/07, Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking for an example that uses kvm_getargv but from just googling around I can't seem to find an example. Can someone give me a pointer? Actually what I'm *really* trying to do is port some code that invokes GDB to do

Re: Path to executable of current process?

2007-07-19 Thread Michael B Allen
Is there any way to get argv[0] for [a particular] process without being root? After more digging I see sysctl seems to be the way to do this but can I get the full path to the executable form kinfo_proc? How does ps do this? static const char * getcmdline(pid_t pid) { static struct

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-05-01 Thread Allen
here doesn't have this DVD I really say go get it. It's got some good stuff in there and even a bit on the history of Multi user OSs. -Allen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-05-01 Thread Allen
: Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you watch Revolution OS, Linus points out that his main thing for doing Linux was that he wanted something like he had used at the university he was at and he says it was SunOS. Sun OS / Solaris, are straight BSD. SunOS 5.x was the OS

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Allen
it was SunOS. Sun OS / Solaris, are straight BSD. For info on where I get this, get the movie 20 years of Berkeley UNIX. I own that and Revolution OS, Linus Loves BSD even though he's sometimes mis quoted or even joking. -Allen A Linux and BSD and BeOS user

Dual booting Free BSD 6 and Slackware

2006-02-17 Thread Allen
that explains what to add. -Allen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual booting Free BSD 6 and Slackware

2006-02-17 Thread Allen
and grab one of Free BSD, VERY nice smooth pad. ;) -Allen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-19 Thread Allen
On Monday 19 December 2005 04:34, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: 3. Full review and update of the install docs, handbook, FAQ, etc. There are sections that are embarrassingly out of date (one section of the handbook apparently states that we only support a single brand of wifi cards). A co-worker

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-17 Thread Allen
On 12/17/2005 01:34:09 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP kernel into the release bits, and have

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-17 Thread Allen
On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:55, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +, Allen wrote: On 12/17/2005 01:34:09 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP

Networking Two Computers via USB

2004-12-31 Thread Douglas Allen
Hi hackers, I am interested in connecting my Linux machine to my windows XP machine. I was going to try the USB ports first. Now I've opened a can of worms. Assuming one could buy a USB A-male to A-male cable, is there a danger in connecting each computer directly? Where can

RE: what to do about /tmp

2000-08-17 Thread Allen Pulsifer
would be the implications of creating a 512 MB swap partition and mounting an MFS /tmp? Thanks, Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

No Subject

2000-08-15 Thread Allen Pulsifer
em at http://www.freeBSD.org/handbook/internals-vm.html that includes some info on tuning, but it doesn't mention what to do with /tmp. So what's the bottom line? Should I leave /tmp on the root file system, create a dedicated partition for /tmp, or mount the swap partition on /tmp using the MFS? Than

RE: Question about PCI vendor 0x127a

2000-03-22 Thread Allen Pulsifer
From http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ Rockwell Semiconductor Systems 714-221-4600 Vendor ID: 0x127A Short Name: Rockwell Semi Contact: [EMAIL

RE: Question about PCI vendor 0x127a

2000-03-22 Thread Allen Pulsifer
to know the vendor id of a company that's no longer paying dues, you have to look at the unofficial list maintained by Jim Boemler at http://www.yourvote.com/pci/. Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Improving the Unix API

1999-06-29 Thread Allen Briggs
confuse them, it's an additional thing that they have to keep in mind when writing portable software. I think we should be working in the other direction--reducing the differences between the systems and making it easier to write portable software. Maybe that's just me, though... ;-) -allen