Re: HEADS UP -stable

1999-11-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should do a 'config' again before making a kernel from -stable sources. *Always* re-run config(8) before building a kernel from updated sources. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that 'fsck -py' ignores the 'p' and will fsck every time, even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR with a 'fix' to fsck. 'fsck -p || fsck -y' should do the trick. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: replacing grep (again) and regex speed ups

1999-10-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I submitted a PR (bin/14342) which adds a lot of speed to mismatches in Henry Spencer's regex code. Who knows a lot about regex whom I can bug? Umm, how about Henry Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 Oct 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very clean, pretty, etc -- only one object: please call it something other than capabilities :-). [deletia] Please read the thread on -security and -arch that lead

Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Patches are available from http://www.freebsd.org/~des/. This is strictly proof-of-concept; the patches demonstrate that fine-grained security knobs can be implemented with minimal code impact. No documentation is provided, RTFS. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very clean, pretty, etc -- only one object: please call it something other than capabilities :-). [deletia] Please read the thread on -security and -arch that lead to these patches. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: FreeBSD and HP Jornado

1999-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jornada/BSD would be killer. Sounds like someone misspelled "Jordana/BSD" (Jordan wearing a miniskirt... scary) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: Determine # of open files via fdesc

1999-10-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
file descriptors. The five descriptors you see above belong to ls. 0 (stdin) and 2 (stderr) are whichever tty or pty you typed this into, 1 (stdout) is the file you redirected the output from ls into, 3 is /dev and 4 is /dev/fd. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Determine # of open files via fdesc

1999-10-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each process only sees its own file descriptors. The five descriptors you see above belong to ls. 0 (stdin) and 2 (stderr) are whichever tty or pty you typed this into, 1 (stdout) is the file you redirected the output from ls into, 3 is /dev and 4

Voice modems

1999-10-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Does anyone have any experience with controlling voice modems from FreeBSD, doing stuff like DTMF-driven phone reservation etc? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt Looks great! BTW, do the hot twins down the hall have a phone number? 8) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: qcam/cqcam driver

1999-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
developer program where you can sign up to get tech specs and stuff. If somebody donates the eq I might hack up a KLD module :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3)

1999-10-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to contact :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: style question

1999-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
j = 0; if (flag) j = 1; return j; } Hmf, I just realized: int foo(int flag) { return !!flag; } or #define foo(x) (!!(x)) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: style question

1999-09-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Gregory Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Us humans can see that j is not used without being set, but cc can't. How do I remove this warning in a style(9)-compatible way? Initialize j. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: style question

1999-09-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Gregory Bond g...@itga.com.au writes: Us humans can see that j is not used without being set, but cc can't. How do I remove this warning in a style(9)-compatible way? Initialize j. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai asmo...@wxs.nl writes: The Unix Programming Environment by Rob Pike and Ritchie Kerninghan Ritchie Kernighan? Who's Ritchie Kernighan? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
s... Lazy people never achieve much. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
been moved, deleted, or incorporated into another part of Netscape's site. To report a broken link, please send a message to feedback. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
people never achieve much. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
been moved, deleted, or incorporated into another part of Netscape's site. To report a broken link, please send a message to feedback. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: More press

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
PI is open and documented, so there's nothing to stop someone from writing a small command-line util that does the equivalent of "netscape -remote" except faster and better. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
en you wouldn't be able to see the output while it runs. The only solution I can think of is the following: fsck_output="$(/sbin/fsck -p | /bin/tee /dev/console)" /sbin/mount -at nonfs echo "${fsck_output}" /var/run/fsck.boot but I don't expect people to be happy about moving

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
if ntpdate stepped my clock 23 seconds for some reason, thats why this (usually means a clock chip has gone zonkers :-)): Doesn't ntpdate log what it does with syslog? If not, I think whichever syscall it is that ntpdate uses to adjust the time should printf() or log() the change. DES --

Re: More press

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is open and documented, so there's nothing to stop someone from writing a small command-line util that does the equivalent of netscape -remote except faster and better. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: CS Project

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is only available in -CURRENT. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
the output while it runs. The only solution I can think of is the following: fsck_output=$(/sbin/fsck -p | /bin/tee /dev/console) /sbin/mount -at nonfs echo ${fsck_output} /var/run/fsck.boot but I don't expect people to be happy about moving tee(1) from /usr/bin to /bin. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
stepped my clock 23 seconds for some reason, thats why this (usually means a clock chip has gone zonkers :-)): Doesn't ntpdate log what it does with syslog? If not, I think whichever syscall it is that ntpdate uses to adjust the time should printf() or log() the change. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
.. patches...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
... patches...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
t; instead? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
worth watching? Too bad she's a scientologist. DES (http://www.moviebbs.com/gallery/samples/s-025-ka.jpg) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. instead? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
a scientologist. DES (http://www.moviebbs.com/gallery/samples/s-025-ka.jpg) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: [Review please] (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.config)

1999-08-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive, which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the directory is not considered an error. Sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: [Review please] (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.config)

1999-08-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov r...@freebsd.org writes: How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive, which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the directory is not considered an error. Sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits come with full source. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New tests for test(1)

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
idea to add some new tests to test(1), to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date? NetBSD's test(1) utility has this (-nt and -ot). We should probably merge in their changes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jason Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12 Aug 1999 11:01:06 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This prevents you from relicensing BSD software under the GPL. It does not prevent you from selling an OS that has both BSD and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits come

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
BSD and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits come with full source. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: New tests for test(1)

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
idea to add some new tests to test(1), to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date? NetBSD's test(1) utility has this (-nt and -ot). We should probably merge in their changes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jason Thorpe thor...@nas.nasa.gov writes: On 12 Aug 1999 11:01:06 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: This prevents you from relicensing BSD software under the GPL. It does not prevent you from selling an OS that has both BSD and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of file systems too? That's totally dependent on the particular file system. For instance, a swap partition contains no metadata (that I know of), so all you can do is deduce it's size and position from the sizes and positions of surrounding partitions, and of the slice they're in. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Unsafe code in libc in 3.0-RELEASE FreeBSD i386

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
suggest that a careful audit by somebody who knows this code (or at least knows what it's supposed to do). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no Index: src/lib/libc/locale/setlocale.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of file systems too? That's totally dependent on the particular file system. For instance, a swap partition contains no metadata (that I know of), so all you can do is deduce it's size and position from the sizes and positions of surrounding partitions, and of the slice they're in. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Josef Karthauser j...@pavilion.net writes: On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Josef Karthauser j...@pavilion.net writes: Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy for ftp requests like ftp does? Yes. I intend to implement this in libfetch when I get around to rewriting the HTTP code. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au writes: Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy for ftp requests like ftp does? Yes. I intend to implement this in libfetch when I get around to rewriting the HTTP code. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d

Re: ignoretime in login.conf??

1999-08-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-programmer. I'll put this on my list if no one else wants to take it, and submit a PR. login.conf is a capability database like any other and therefore follows the syntax described in the getcap(3) man page. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ogin class. = DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on disk and DMA it into memory Have you looked at disk latencies recently? A modern CPU could zero- fill a decent fraction of its RAM in the time taken

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
what I f###ing wrote* The issue is not speed, because this is something we do in the background when there's nothing else to do. The issue is to avoid thrashing the cache. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. = DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
it currently does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ur disk supports DMA, of course. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
/conf/Makefile.pc98 src/usr.bin/Makefile src/usr.bin/chflags/Makefile src/usr.bin/chpass/Makefile src/usr.bin/passwd/Makefile DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
easy to make the modification, and I'm willing to do all the work, assuming no one on -committers objects.. The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services not already mentioned in that file

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. No, I fixed them in february or march. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Set INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT=:S/schg/,/ to remove these when doing a make world, if needed. Please try to understand what the issue is before butting in. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
on NFSv3 localhost mounts. Yeah, I was doing installworlds with /usr, /usr/src and /usr/obj NFS-mounted (in a chroot tree on the server, because I got tired of doing it over PLIP). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
/Makefile.pc98 src/usr.bin/Makefile src/usr.bin/chflags/Makefile src/usr.bin/chpass/Makefile src/usr.bin/passwd/Makefile DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
to make the modification, and I'm willing to do all the work, assuming no one on -committers objects.. The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn sheld...@uunet.co.za writes: On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services not already mentioned in that file

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel Eischen eisc...@vigrid.com writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. Are you sure this is what you want? Yes. It may allow an application to use a port number that would

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com writes: The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. No, I fixed them in february or march. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek vand...@ecf.utoronto.ca writes: Set INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT=:S/schg/,/ to remove these when doing a make world, if needed. Please try to understand what the issue is before butting in. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
on NFSv3 localhost mounts. Yeah, I was doing installworlds with /usr, /usr/src and /usr/obj NFS-mounted (in a chroot tree on the server, because I got tired of doing it over PLIP). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
() fails (e.g. NFS). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-doubling of running time with similar patches. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
icial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. There were even a few such cases in our tree that I fixed less than a year ago IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ing to say something like "legacy software may not support UIDs larger than 65535" DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

grep-0.11

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ftp://ftp.ofug.org/pub/grep/grep-0.11.tar.gz More (gprof-assisted) speedups. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). Could you please test my patch th

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() but bot memcpy()? Here it is again, though against an old version: Bingo. REG_STARTEND is significantly more expensive than memcpy(). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
0.11 even faster. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
() fails (e.g. NFS). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-doubling of running time with similar patches. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no writes: John-Mark Gurney gurne...@efn.org writes: it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
limitation in pwd_mkdb. pwd_mkdb warns against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. There were even a few such cases in our tree that I fixed less than a year ago IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
something like legacy software may not support UIDs larger than 65535 DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

grep-0.11

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ftp://ftp.ofug.org/pub/grep/grep-0.11.tar.gz More (gprof-assisted) speedups. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). Could you please test my patch that removes

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com writes: Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() but bot memcpy()? Here it is again, though against an old version: Bingo. REG_STARTEND is significantly more expensive than memcpy(). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is important. Do you mean that Jamie's implementation doesn't pass those regression tests? If they don't, we can fix it before importing it into the tree. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Brian F. Feldman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was that it's not a very important thing to do to give out FreeBSD CDs like BSD/OS gives out trial versions of their wares. Yes, it is. Try doing an FTP install across a 28k8 or 33k6 modem some time. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgra

Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
for this purpose on some embedded systems where I need this capability. Might one persuade you to release that 100-line program? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org writes: That's true. I'd like to see the replacement grep do mmaping of the input files if it doesn't already, as that would speed it up. Shouldn't be too hard to implement, the way file operations are abstracted. Patches? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is important. Do you mean that Jamie's implementation doesn't pass those regression tests? If they don't, we can fix it before importing it into the tree. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org writes: My point was that it's not a very important thing to do to give out FreeBSD CDs like BSD/OS gives out trial versions of their wares. Yes, it is. Try doing an FTP install across a 28k8 or 33k6 modem some time. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d

Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
for this purpose on some embedded systems where I need this capability. Might one persuade you to release that 100-line program? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it ever gets committed (I don't think it's particularly useful myself), That's 2 against, 1 (me) for. Three against. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
parties. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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