Re: select(2) breakage

1999-06-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no writes: This still doesn't explain select()'s failure to time out Found it! If you change: printf(no select() action); to: fprintf(stderr, no select() action\n); you'll see that select() does time out. The moral of this story

Re: select(2) breakage

1999-06-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: On 13 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: BTW, you should check for errno == EINTR when select() returns -1. The perror() is the status report for select() when -1. Yeah, but EINTR is a normal condition, so I'd ignore it silently instead of logging

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
that many ignorants in my short encounter with FreeBSD. 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: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
will be fine. 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: sgmlformat making release

1999-06-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
not have a valid /etc/resolv.conf. yedi#ls /usr/ports/distfiles docbk241.tar.Z isoENTS.zip linuxdoc-1.1.tar.gz docbk30.tar.Z jade-1.2.1.tar.gz sgmlformat-1.7.tar.gz This is outside the chroot tree. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
the the #freebsd IRC channel about this. The name slips my mind right now. Almost certainly EE (Eivind Eklund). 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

devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
console in single-user mode, and could neither interrupt nor background it, I had no shell). Upon reboot, fsck -p produced a shitload of busy_count 0 messages. (newfs still gets wedged, btw) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST. Following up on myself, the box just panicked (softdep_write_complete: lock held). DES -- Dag

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST. Following up on myself, the box just panicked

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010

Re: Kernel config script:

1999-06-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
support from BTL management translate into UNIX was created to run a word processor? 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: xl driver for 3Com

1999-06-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
provide useful info on *why* it doesn't work. I wish I could stop what I was doing every time someone had a problem, but I don't have that kind of time. Neat. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: PAM: Undefined symbols at runtime

1999-06-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
them unstripped, as they should be. Do you perchance have something like INSTALL=install -s in your /etc/make.conf? 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: UID Limits

1999-06-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and thus does not grok large UIDs. 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: UID Limits

1999-06-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
greater than USHRT_MAX because some old (third-party) software stores UIDs in unsigned short ints instead of uid_t and therefore does not grok large UIDs. The warning is harmless (unless you run some of that old software) and should most certainly not be changed or removed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, society will collapse, and I can take over the world while everyone's distracted! Yes, Bill, we love you too :) 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: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
don't think there's much point in doing that before Kirk McKusick removes the restrictions on the soft updates code. When that happens, we can make soft updates non-optional and turn on soft updates on all file systems by default. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe

fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, and some of it is a complete replacement for the fetch(1) command. The code and documentation (yes, Nik, I wrote docs!) is available at URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/. As usual, comments and patches are welcome. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn sheld...@uunet.co.za writes: On 28 May 1999 10:29:44 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: I brushed the dust off a bunch of patches I had for libfetch and the fetch(1) command and made a patchkit of them [...] Your mail has brought to mind a question I've never managed to sort out

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
; int c; f = fetchPutURL(argv[1], NULL); while ((c = fgetc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c, f); return 0; } Needless to say, this works with file: URLs as well. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
driver shortly before 3.2 which should have ironed out whatever problems remained. 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: symorder for FreeBSD-3.x

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
at objcopy(1). 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: ipfw/natd limitation: controlling access of an unregistered net to the internet

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, the problem you're facing is a very common one, and is usually solved by switching to a Real Mail User Agent (tm) which breaks lines at 80 columns or less. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: New one - mp3 clicks during playback

1999-05-24 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

SA_{SPACE,REWIND,ERASE}_TIMEOUT

1999-05-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I want to convert these kernel options to sysctl variables. Where should they be inserted into the tree? I was thinking of creating a new 'cam' top-level category and put them there: cam.sa.space_timeout cam.sa.rewind_timeout cam.sa.erase_timeout DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d

Re: vmapbuf (was:Which O/S routines are subject to change?)

1999-05-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Stan Shkolny s...@osgroup.com writes: [...] (BTW, I found it very-very-VERY helpful that I did it first under NT, since NT has kernel-mode debugger :-). Oh, and FreeBSD doesn't? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, or put so much magic in your drawing function that it will bog down to something like 3 fps. And you can't just look at your video_info_t and see that mode X is interlaced; you have to *know* that you're running in mode X and that mode X is interlaced. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-remembering a quote about some other app. As I remember it, the quote referred to a noddy program used as an example in a paper or lecture. Knuth had proven the program to be correct, but had never actually compiled it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: [...] but the hardest part of the job - finding loop and type invariants and post- and pre-conditions which the prover can use as starting points - must still be done

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 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: fsck and large file system

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
swap space to fsck the 130 MB volume, and the system has 64 MB RAM. This was is 2.2.8 (haven't upgraded it yet). I *really* hope you meant 130 GB and not 130 MB :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
in the correct address range from /dev/kmem) - port GGI to FreeBSD. 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: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes: On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: No, actually it has 1536 more pixels :) Mode Q is so named because the frame buffer is a cube of sorts (i.e. 256x256 pixels in 256 colors) Yeah, I've seen the DOS port of snes9x use that. I don't think it has

Re: 1GB, kvm issues.

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
kernel address space is large enough. The default in -CURRENT and recent versions -STABLE is 1 GB, which should be enough for most (if not all) uses. The default for 3.1-RELEASE and -STABLE up to mid-April is 256 MB. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: MB86950 Support in the works?

1999-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
experienced sustained transfer rates in excess of 1 MBps on a 10Base2 network, with FreeBSD 3.1 using an SMC based Kingston EtherX (ISA PnP NE2000 clone thingamabob) in one end and a nondescript Linux box in the other end. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send

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