getifaddrs(3), ifa_data field

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Lutz
I noticed that the getifaddrs(3) library function doesn't behave as described in the manpage. The manpage says: The ifa_data field references address family specific data. For AF_LINK addresses it contains a pointer to the struct if_data (as defined in include file ) which contains vari

Re: Some FreeBSD performance Issues

2007-11-12 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Randall Hyde wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently ported my HLA (High Level Assembler) compiler to FreeBSD and, > along with it, the HLA Standard Library. I have a performance-related > question concerning file I/O. > > It appears that character-at-a-time file I/O is *exceptionally* slow. Yes, I > rea

Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown

2007-08-31 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Friday 31 August 2007 18:51:23 Sean Bruno wrote: > Tobias Roth wrote: > > Sean Bruno wrote: > >> I noticed that if rc.conf has ntpd_enable="NO", an invocation of > >> /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop won't actually shut down ntpd. I checked a > >> couple of other processes(like net-snmp) and noted the same

Re: SoC: Distributed Audit Daemon project

2007-05-27 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Saturday 26 May 2007 09:49, Alexey Mikhailov wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007 22:04:34 Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > On Friday 25 May 2007 01:22:21 Alexey Mikhailov wrote: > > > [...] > > > 2. As I said before initial subject of this project was > > > "

Re: SoC: Distributed Audit Daemon project

2007-05-25 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Friday 25 May 2007 01:22:21 Alexey Mikhailov wrote: > [...] > 2. As I said before initial subject of this project was "Distributed > audit daemon". But after some discussions we had decided that this > project can be done in more general maner. We can perform distributed > logging for any user-s

Re: PAPI for FreeBSD

2007-05-18 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Friday 18 May 2007 12:38, Harald Servat wrote: > I'm searching some testers for my first version of the port because > I'm only able to test it on my laptop (FreeBSD 6.2 / Pentium M) and > it would be great to test it in other kind of processors (now it's > only supported on Pentium 2/3/4/Cel

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Sunday 13 May 2007 23:00, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > The on-disk format seems to be the wrong angle on the issue - The > current structure Works well - but it has a number of drawbacks - > however it no way clear whether that The answer is another > INDEX/storage structure When coming up with

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Sunday 13 May 2007 13:58, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > Using XML for INDEX are a very good idea mainly because it allows > "ports" to interface in an easy way to external tools - e.g. java > frontends - web browsers etc, etc. However there are drawbacks - Yet > I feel that the discussion about wha

man(1) and locale codeset

2006-10-09 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, While investigating how to get proper quotes in manpages (proper as explained here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html) I found that groff outputs correct quote characters (well, for single quotation marks anyway) with -Tutf8. When looking at the man(1) source code, I saw th

Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-05 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Saturday 05 August 2006 07:18, you wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've noticed that FreeBSD does not by default comply to RFC 919, Chapter > > 7 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc919). Specifically, it does not handle > >

RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, I've noticed that FreeBSD does not by default comply to RFC 919, Chapter 7 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc919). Specifically, it does not handle IP packets with a destination address of 255.255.255.255 properly. 255.255.255.255 is a "limited broadcast address" (the term is not mentioned