Re: Linking with -shared and -pthread...

2003-08-31 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:13:03PM +0100 or thereabouts, Peter Wood wrote: Good Evening, I've been looking at writing a program that uses both shared libraries (dlopen/dlclose) and POSIX threads. I however haven't had any success in my simple tests. After doing some research via google I

Re: [future patch] dropping user privileges on demand

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:39:00AM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:58:54AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: It does something similar, but uses a C-like language to control a processes actions. This lets you get extremely fine-grained control (allow httpd to

Re: Dumping a core from inside of process

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:12:49PM + or thereabouts, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev wrote: At Thu, 21.08.2003, 22:02, Alexander Kabaev wrote: Look for abort() or SIGABRT. Thanks so far for you and Lev.. Is there the way to specify struct sigcontext to it? I still wish to have `correct'

Fwd: Re: Debugging symbols with nasm

2003-08-16 Thread Joshua Oreman
[Sorry, accidentally cc:ed -questions@ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:14:30AM +0300 or thereabouts, Vladimir Ciobanu wrote: I'm not sure whether this is the best list to post to, but it's my first guess. I'm using nasm to compile some code I wrote. The

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:27:14PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bogdan TARU wrote: Hi Drew, I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them (holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what 'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them?

Re: getpwnam + getpwnam_r + LinuxThreads port = deadlock

2003-07-12 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:47:50AM -0400 or thereabouts, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: Hi -hackers, System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT cvsupped around 5.0-RELEASE I'm writing an app that links with the LinuxThreads (/usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads

Re: USB mouse/keyboard causes kernel panic during boot sequence(from -questions)

2003-07-12 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:37:23PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael E. Mercer wrote: Josh, Are you looking into my problem or someone else? Also, How? by looking at the trace provided, you do find out where exactly it failed at? I was sort of hoping to drag a more experienced kernel hacker

getpwnam + getpwnam_r + LinuxThreads port = deadlock

2003-07-11 Thread Joshua Oreman
Hi -hackers, System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT cvsupped around 5.0-RELEASE I'm writing an app that links with the LinuxThreads (/usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads) and also uses getpwnam(). The problem: a deadlock. GDB backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 0x28140053 in sigsuspend () from /usr/lib/libc.so.5 #1

Re: Mirroring using vinum+NFS

2003-07-10 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:10:13AM +1000 or thereabouts, Peter Jeremy wrote: I'm looking at building a fileserver and want to mirror the data across two systems (if one fails, I can use the other). Consider system A as the server and system B as the mirror. In theory, on system A I should

Re: current state of the art / best practice for devfs in a jail ?

2003-07-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:00:46AM -0700 or thereabouts, Josh Brooks wrote: I have been researching the various of ways people add devfs to a jail to give the jail certian /dev devices necessary to function ... Well, all I did was test your research :-) One strategy I saw was: mount -t

Re: TODO list?

2003-06-28 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:52:36PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat there forever. I have taken a

Re: setting up max ptys under 5.x

2003-06-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:29:41PM -0700 or thereabouts, Josh Brooks wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: maxusers to 512 ... any new toggles I should know of to be able to use max ptys on the system, or can I just follow whatever directions I hope to receive regarding

TODO list?

2003-06-27 Thread Joshua Oreman
Hi -hackers, I currently have a lot of free time and I was wondering whether there was a TODO list of some sort for bugs that need fixing in FreeBSD. I really want to help the project, and I think such a list would make it much easier to do so. If there's no official TODO list, could someone

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. I

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. kqueue and kevent are going to do it for me on *BSD, but I'm also trying to support *cough* linux and other UN*X types OSes. From

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:50:24PM -0400 or thereabouts, Matthew Hagerty seemed to write: Joshua Oreman wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. kqueue and kevent

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and