Re: Socket so_linger setting

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Sinz
that the field should be unsigned. Not that it matters : about improving the range as 32767 is over 9 hours. It is more : a matter of correctness in the code/representation since the : code assumes the value is not negative already. ] : :-- :Michael Sinz -- Director, Systems Engineering

Re: Socket so_linger setting

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Sinz
Matthew Dillon wrote: I was going to wait till 5.0 released first but I could do it now if you want. It would help the Java work but I don't know if it is critical to be done today vs some short time in the future. (Depends on the timing of the Java project and the wish to get JCK

Socket so_linger setting

2002-11-01 Thread Michael Sinz
is that since so_linger has no valid negative value that the field should be unsigned. Not that it matters about improving the range as 32767 is over 9 hours. It is more a matter of correctness in the code/representation since the code assumes the value is not negative already. ] -- Michael Sinz

Re: Socket so_linger setting

2002-11-01 Thread Michael Sinz
at changing so_linger to unsigned too. (As I stated before, it documents the value range a bit more correctly and, with better compilers, the math errors would be warnings if you assumed signed-ness of the value :-) -- Michael Sinz -- Director, Systems Engineering -- Worldgate Communications A master's

Re: Hardlinks...

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Sinz
sharing the same install and the boot server. -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-29 Thread Michael Sinz
) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: ALT-sp (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as asingleargumen)

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Sinz
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Michael Sinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW - How does your system represent a file with 0xA0 in it? An ls on FreeBSD 4.4-Stable seems to show it as: -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 0 Oct 3 12:00 foo?bar Interesting - not what I would have expected but I

Re: uptime and w utilities lie about real uptime

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Sinz
for it ? From my reading of this, it seems to want to round the uptime to the nearest minute -- afterall, w and uptime both only show the uptime in minutes (well, days, hours, and minutes) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Sinz
Chris Costello wrote: On Friday, August 31, 2001, Michael Sinz wrote: I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work this way. I really wish you could just do: open(nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt) and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Sinz
Paul Chvostek wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:15:09PM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work this way. I really wish you could just do: open(nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt) NAME amd - automatically

Re: gzipped crashdumps

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Sinz
in our test lab :-() -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Sinz
, this should be nice. There's a similar project for Linux here: http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/ (FTP only). It would be amusing to port it into a KLD file. Hmmm... Looks like a good first step -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Sinz
or EMACS have to have special code in each editor just so you can load/edit a file from FTP rather than local? -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Michael Sinz
to that point. (The network includes your local machine so why not) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: diskless

2001-08-13 Thread Michael Sinz
the rc.diskless* again to put back our changes) But it really works very well and saves us lots of grief in configuration and maintainance. -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others

Re: NFS local mount

2001-07-23 Thread Michael Sinz
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:38:07PM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: I had been meaning to ask if there was a reason why NFS mounts happened before NFS servers were started but life kept getting in the way :-) If /usr was nfs mounted on a machine, then /usr needs

Re: NFS local mount

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Sinz
were started but life kept getting in the way :-) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Michael Sinz
be seen as a reasonable complaint against FreeBSD. And we know that and the next major FreeBSD release will have addressed it. -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Sinz
a PIII or Athelon. (Both have significantly lower penalty for branch mis-prediction) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED