Re: Announcing PathDB

2010-05-30 Thread James Mansion
C. Bergström wrote: Apologies.. I didn't really expect anyone to know about it. To me the best way to describe it is similar to gdb, but much cleaner codebase. Might be more effective to offer this to the llvm community, I would have thought. ___

pxeboot and http

2009-06-05 Thread James Mansion
Is the ability for pxeboot to load from an HTTP source merged - or due to be merged? It was a gsoc from 2007 wasn't it? James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Re: BDB corrupt

2008-05-13 Thread James Mansion
Kurt J. Lidl wrote: This catapults back into the arena of stuff that isn't in the base system. Not to mention I'm not sure that the Oracle BDB license would allow bundling in the OS as a binary. I doubt it, but that's a different bikeshed to paint :-) Is the LGPL of QDBM and TokyoCabinet

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
Kip Macy wrote: he's just plain misinforme Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that. -Kip OK he said I could post from our private email so here goes. There were bits in and around relating to the Solaris /dev/poll support (and the mechanism's limitations) which

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
Kip Macy wrote: Do you have a set of regression tests for libev? It sounds like they would worth having to regression test kqueue. I would have thought that libevent and libev should both the checked against kqueue. Also APR and everything else that has support. I'm not the author of libev

kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread James Mansion
Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod): unsigned int ev_recommended_backends () Return the set of all backends compiled into this binary of libev and also recommended for this platform. This set is often smaller

A question about swapping

2007-12-05 Thread James Mansion
I'm looking for an operating system that I can use to build some diskless workstations. I'd really like to be able to support swapping. Is it feasible to enable swap to any remote file or remote block device with FreeBSD - without risking a deadlock? Linux seems to be prone to deadlock. I