> des@ wrote:
> There's a jumper setting for
> "Windows XP compatibility", but apparently, it only affects the (fake)
> geometry the disk reports to the BIOS.
No, this jumper internally increases any linear block number learned from bus
request by 1. I.e. the block number 1 without this jumpe
> I'm looking into a clean, permanent solution for WD Green drives that
> use 4096-byte physical sectors. To summarize the information I've
> collected so far:
There is attempt to look from another side - is it really needed?
Captain Obvious says that if one have a new disk, it's easy to format
i
Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 15:02:40, scottl wrote about "My project wish-list for
the next 12 months":
[...]
> 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but
> the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's
> fairly good at the simple task that it does, bu
Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 14:52:35, zagarin wrote about "sshd & pam & getpwnam()":
> Does anybody know, why sshd call getpwnam() even if user is
> authenticating via PAM? This broke remote authentication (RADIUS,
> TACACS+) when user doesn't exist in local password database.
Because you mix two di
Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:34:04, andrit wrote about "Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?":
>> And AFAICS, there's no way to tell ls: "first sort on time,
>> then on filename, then on size", etc. This would make a nice addition
>> though. :)
> But there is nice sort command and power of unix.
> Don't you rem
Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:27:31, ticso (Bernd Walter) wrote about "how to get cpu
states more than once a second?":
BW> Currently I get the states via kern.cp_time, but this only allows
BW> a granularity of a single second and I need something around 50-100ms.
BW> Application is a LED bargraph wh
Hi,
it seems that current traditional or new (packet, aka EDD, aka Int13x)
disk read interface selection in boot blocks (boot1 & mbr) is obsolete
and leads to unbootable systems.
The main factor to kill old access is strange BIOS translation for disks
larger than 32G. For two my home disks:
Mode
Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:20:30, bmilekic wrote about "Re: complicated downgrade":
> This sounds like the same symptoms as the latest USB problem...
> when/if you track -current or even run one of the 5.x releases, it's
> key to realize that this is very active code that you're running; it's
Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 23:40:05, des wrote about "Re: complicated downgrade":
>> I need to downgrade a remote FreeBSD system from 5.1-release to 4.8-release
>> remotely without any local help (except possible hitting Reset).
> Maybe if you tell us why you need to do this we can figure out a way
>
Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:44:33, nick wrote about "Re: complicated downgrade":
> +>do
> +>mv ${D} ${D}5
> +>mv ${D}4 {D}
> +>done
> Here is a race:)
> # mv /bin /bin5
> # mv /bin4 /bin
> mv: Command not found.
PATH=/bin4:/bin:/bin5/...
I used the same
(Cc'ed to phk@ as to main GEOM and DEVFS developer; see corresponding
questions below.)
Hi,
I need to downgrade a remote FreeBSD system from 5.1-release to 4.8-release
remotely without any local help (except possible hitting Reset).
Don't ask why the collocation provider is too ugly and too far f
Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:19:06, des (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) wrote about "Re: gcc bug?
Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8":
>> Essential words are understriked. I can't imagine how it can be read
>> as "unsupported".
DES> I didn't use the word "unsupported", I said "deprecated".
Yes. But
Fri, May 30, 2003 at 22:00:18, pherman (Paul Herman) wrote about "Proper behaviour
for wait()?":
PH> anyone know what the "proper" behavior for wait() is when SIGCHLD
PH> is ignored? Is it simply undefined? Don't see anything mentioned
PH> in the wait(2) manpage one way or tother, and other O
Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:14:50, jaya_bhat100 (Jayasheela Bhat) wrote about
"kqueue/kevent support in scsi device drivers":
JB> At present, kevent is supported for vnode, fifos, pipes and sockets, I believe.
JB> I would like to use kevent notification in scsi devices. But the drivers scsi_xx.c
Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:46:33, des (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) wrote about "Re: gcc bug?
Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8":
DES> and "obsolescent feature" is defined as follows in the introduction:
DES>[#2] Certain features are obsolescent, which means that they
DES>may b
There was a fresh discussion in some maillists (security-audit, glibc-alpha) of
strlcpy() and strlcat() in context of possible inclusion to glibc.
Among others, the question was spoken that strlcat manpage contains a dark
moment of strlcat() return value. One should agree with affirmation that
str
(redirected to -chat. it's pity that there are no freebsd-flame@ redirected
to /dev/null;))
Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:58:54, Bsdguru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote about "Re: Imagestream
WanIC-520 interface cards":
> Thats pretty lame Matt.
I hope you're joking. (Otherwise you should carefully cons
Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 14:19:58, eddy+public+spam (E.B. Dreger) wrote about "AIO
issues... or not?":
> When using aio_* calls, I received ENOSYS. I grepped LINT, and
> found that I'd forgotten to "OPTIONS VFS_AIO". Simple enough.
>
> However, there's a rather ominous and non-descriptive warni
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:17:21, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about "Re: sin_zero & bind
problems":
Matt, excuse me please...
Why you send insults to programmers which were as unhappy as to put feet
to your BSD-specific rake? They carefully read all documentation and examples
(you cannot prove tha
The following was initially formatted as PR, but I suppose it is reasonable
to discuss first here. There were some vague mentions that sin_zero field
of struct sockaddr_in may be used in future for some extensions; but this
future is already expired;) without any real step.
If the verdict will be
Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 14:04:05, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about "Re: bug in sshd -
signal during free()":
> It's funny... they had an XXX comment in there so obviously someone
> was a little jittery about it. I think they just didn't realize that
> a malloc() might occur inside th
Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:11:12, stephen_roome wrote about "Re: function calls/rets in
assembly":
> One final question... (which may be a gcc question, sorry if it is..)
>
> why do we have some people proposing the use of "leave". When from the
> docs I've read, leave takes longer than a mov an
Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:13:17, dev-null (David O'Brien) wrote about "Re: function
calls/rets in assembly":
> > If gcc team wants to implement proper
> > alignment to work with SSE and other high-specialized stuff,
> > they should learn commands for bitwise AND, and use only where really needed
Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:11:50, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about "Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT
question.":
> :> MAP_INHERIT This is supposed to permit regions to be
> :> inherited across execve(2) system calls,
> :> but is currently broken.
> Ya
Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 22:39:07, 520066542279-0001 (Harold Gutch) wrote about "Re: ssh
password cracker - now this *is* cool!":
> Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001,
> where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a
> backspace actually translated to
> t
Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 16:03:02, roam (Peter Pentchev) wrote about "Re: function
calls/rets in assembly":
> I wonder if a mentioning of -mpreferred-stack-boundary should be
> added to tuning(7)..
This will be quite strange idea. Tuning which reduces 2-4 times stack size
of userland application.
Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 14:19:55, mike (Mike Barcroft) wrote about "Proposed Utility -
detach(1)":
> I would appreciate comments on the usefulness of a utility which would
> allow one to detach a process from a TTY. I imagine the utility would
> be very small and just call daemon(3) and execlp(3
Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:36:45, jhb (John Baldwin) wrote about "Re: function
calls/rets in assembly":
> > printasint:
> > pushl %ebp
> > movl %esp,%ebp
> > subl $8,%esp
> > addl $-8,%esp
[...]
> Because this code is broken and obfuscated? :)
>
> We save %esp in %ebp (t
Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:41:43, vel (Eugene L. Vorokov) wrote about "kill a process in
kernel":
> what is the most proper and easy way to shutdown given process
> (not curproc) from kernel module ? Any advices regarding this
> are appreciated.
psignal(9); killproc() (for SIGKILL, in extremal s
Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 21:48:18, bicknell (Leo Bicknell) wrote about "Very odd tty
hanging problem.":
> >From another window, try to kill the processes as a user, no effect
> with -9 or regular. Try to kill them as root, no effect normal. Kill
> them -9 as root, and all but the first shell wil
Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 16:21:32, oli (Olafur Osvaldsson) wrote about "ssh and setuid":
[...]
> As the ssh in FreeBSD is by default not setuid it uses a higher than privileged
> port for connecting so obviously that is the reason for my troubles.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to only disable rhosts_
Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 17:57:44, zaunere (Hans Zaunere) wrote about "Re: ncurses":
> *Whaps himself* Why didn't I think of that. However
> the question still lingers, is there anyway to output
> to stdout? Its kind of a moot point I suppose, just
> curious.
ncurses already outputs to stdout.
Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:09:32, zaunere (Hans Zaunere) wrote about "Signal Handling":
> In a program that I am working on, I've decided to
> catch signal 15, which then calls execl() in the
> handler to reload the program from the on-disk binary.
> I am able to send it the signal, it reloads, a
Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 15:07:00, lucky (Alexey Privalov) wrote about "strange with
named":
> Jul 21 13:43:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1475 for
>"host.domain"
> Jul 21 13:48:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1486 for
>"host.domain"
> Jul 21 13:5
Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 19:56:40, eddy+public+spam (E.B. Dreger) wrote about "Re: libc_r
locking... why?":
> > A Token may not be enough because writes may be reordered.
AFAIK it's false for i386 architecture. Please correct me if needed.
> Here is where I want to learn more about cache coheren
Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 15:19:47, eddy+public+spam (E.B. Dreger) wrote about "Re: libc_r
locking... why?":
> Running processes on multiple CPUs is one goal.
>
> [ libc_r locks don't assert "lock", not MP-safe ]
>
> So the "lock" prefix is the only way to enforce cache coherency?
> Do you have h
Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 17:49:27, LConrad (Len Conrad) wrote about "kern.maxproc":
> I need about 1000 processes for a high-volume mail gateway. I'm already
> getting errors in peak periods with the default maxproc of 530.
>
> It seems I can't set this in loader.conf, as I can other read-only pa
Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:55:10, louisphilippe (Louis-Philippe Gagnon) wrote about
"pthread/longjmp/signal problem":
> I've been trying to implement a IsBadReadPtr-style function in FreeBSD by
> using signal handlers and longjmp/setjmp. It seemed to work as expected,
> until I started using the
Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 00:05:36, clefevre-lists (Cyrille Lefevre) wrote about "Re:
"include" directive in config(8) (was: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..)":
> how about "undef options XXX" and "undef device XXX", etc. ?
s/undef/no/
I like Cisco style ;)))
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> > sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile?
> It makes it harder to make src/sys/compile a single simple symlink to
> writable storage.
There is no need to make symlink in src tree.
> -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Are you David O'Brien or freebsd-hackers list itself?
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Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 19:01:42, LConrad (Len Conrad) wrote about "resolv.conf
options":
> >RTFS ;))
> "s" man resolv.conf talks about options, but not timeout or retry
"S" means source.
For FreeBSD standard resolver, source of /etc/resolv.conf reading
is in src/lib/libc/net/res_init.c.
But yo
Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:23:35, tlambert2 (Terry Lambert) wrote about "Re: Two Junior
Kernel Hacker tasks..":
> > make buildkernel is rather easy way to work it around: in
> > any case object tree is machine-dependent, and one yet
> > another directory does not destroy anything. ;|
> The "make
Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 15:43:21, LConrad (Len Conrad) wrote about "2nd ata drive, and
resolv.conf options":
> I'm setting up a couple of outbound, high-volume mail gateways that need
> some kind fairly quick failover when their primary DNS is down, to use
> another DNS. The behavior available
Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:01, jhb (John Baldwin) wrote about "Two Junior Kernel
Hacker tasks..":
> 2) Build kernels in sys/compile/${MACHINE_ARCH}/FOO rather than sys/compile/FOO.
I'd like to qualify the whole idea to put compilation data in some subdirectory
of /usr/src as harmful. `make bu
Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 00:30:47, sascha (Sascha Schumann) wrote about "poll(2)'s
arbitrary limit":
> one of my applications uses the SGI State Threads Library
> (I/O multiplexing scheduler). At its heart is a function
> which concatenates the pollfd arrays of all threads and calls
>
Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:48:38, gzjyliu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote about
"[PATCH] Limited BPF to the specified program":
> So I can add the follow lines to my kernel config file:
> options BPF_LIMITED
> options BPF_ALLOWED_DEVID=29696
> options BPF_ALLOWED_FILEID=439
Ano
Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46, clefevre-lists (Cyrille Lefevre) wrote about "Re: Perl
module for periodic scripts":
> FYI, the date stuff can be written in pure shell. don't know yet
> about the uniq -i but should be possible w/o perl.
tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | uniq
(does this uniquing requires to
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 20:18:46, gbarr (Graham Barr) wrote about "Re: read(2) and
ETIMEDOUT":
> > I'm quite sure ETIMEDOUT is a result of hitting the setsockopt
> > SO_RCVTIMEO value when doing a read.
> I had been thinking along those lines too. But immediately before calling
> read, select sai
Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:02:20, freebsd-hackers (David O'Brien - Hackers) wrote about
"Re: How to recompile kernel after minor changes?":
> > cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/${KERNCONF}
> > make -DNO_MODULES
> or ``make kernel''
> and if you want to live dangerously ``make kernel-reinstall''.
You are
Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:24:54, gzjyliu (Jiangyi Liu) wrote about "How to recompile
kernel after minor changes?":
> After just changing a little in sys/kern/kern_sig.c, how can I rebuild
> the kernel fast? I think it should not take such a long time as 'make
> buildkernel' does. Anyway, just ke
>>> Doug Barton wrote:
> Once the system comes up multiuser, diagnose and fix mysql problems. For
> future reference, ALWAYS disable startup scripts for third party stuff
> before _starting_ the upgrade. This is especially true for remote upgrades.
The pity moment is that init(8) logic is absol
Sat, May 26, 2001 at 22:03:34, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Re: Boot time memory
issue":
> > > SMAP type=01 base= 0010 len= 13ef
[...]
> Did that and got the same error. I put a printf just before the
> pa_indx++ in machdep.c and watched it increment by 2's all th
Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory
issue":
Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least,
2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..." lines at the very
beginning of the kernel boot log at /dev/console. (They are not
Mon, May 21, 2001 at 18:46:57, imp (Warner Losh) wrote about "Re: sysctl to disable
reboot":
> : In addition, I prefer my approach here because it's a single,
> : known toggle that doesn't involve messing with other parts of the
> : system. I might just want to disable keyboard rebooting
> :
Tue, May 15, 2001 at 16:39:29, fmela0 (Farooq Mela) wrote about "Re: Kqueue and
FreeBSD versions":
> > It was introduced with 4.1; I believe the correct __FreeBSD_version
> > to use is 41000.
s/41000/41/ - fix typo at least.
> Great, thanks. I figured you'd be the authority on this one ;
Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:39:52, tlambert2 (Terry Lambert) wrote about "Re: wint_t":
[...skip...]
> I maintain that the correct size for wchar_t is 16 bits,
> until someone can point to a character set that needs
> more than that, and which has been ratified by a standards
> body.
I'm fully agre
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 00:17:31, dima (Dima Dorfman) wrote about "MIN()/MAX()
definitions in sys/param.h":
> Is there a reason the definitions of the MIN() and MAX() macros in
> sys/param.h are under an '#ifndef _KERNEL'? Quite a few files in the
> kernel define these (well, at least MIN) thems
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 17:45:02, bright (Alfred Perlstein) wrote about "Re: wint_t":
> > The C standard says that wchar_t should be able to all members of thye
> > largest extended chracter set. AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't have any character
> > set which requires more than 8 bits.
> > wint_t should al
Sat, May 12, 2001 at 17:12:41, roam (Peter Pentchev) wrote about "Re: adding a new
function to libc":
> > /* This is candidate to have optimized assembler variant */
> > size_t strnlen( const char* src, size_t max )
> > {
> > size_t n;
> > while( n < max && *src != '\0' )
> >
Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:24:29, tlambert2 (Terry Lambert) wrote about "SSH Must Die":
> This whole ssh B.S. is very annoying.
> After an upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 using a CDROM boot plus
> upgrade menu option, SSH stops working, for no good reason
> (_any_ reason is no good).
> It complains about
Hello Daniel Hemmerich!
Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:10:45, dan (Daniel Hemmerich) wrote about "adding a new
function to libc":
> Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function,
> strndup(), to libc?
>
> So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk o
Sun, May 06, 2001 at 17:14:08, rakshe (Rohit Rakshe) wrote about "Re: FPU exception,
kernel panic":
(I cannot even guarantree 50% this is the same problem, but...)
There were some reports in current@ about incorrect usage of i586_bzero()
which uses FPU for zero-filling. It generated random ker
Consider a little test program:
> #include
> extern int func_a( int, int );
> int main()
> {
>int i;
>for( i = 0; i < 100; i++ ) {
> printf( "%d\n", func_a( i, i+2 ) );
>}
>return 0;
> }
Part of assembler code built by gcc 2.7.2.3 (on FreeBSD-3.4-stable):
> pushl
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Give me a shell and I can crash any machine.
Oh. ;|
> A good example of this is sendmail. Before the MaxDaemonChildren and
> MaxArticleSize options, it was possible for sendmail to overcommit a
> machine. In this case the overcommit that can occur is wit
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Give me a shell and I can crash any machine.
Oh. ;|
> A good example of this is sendmail. Before the MaxDaemonChildren and
> MaxArticleSize options, it was possible for sendmail to overcommit a
> machine. In this case the overcommit that can occur is wi
Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>> There are other ways. For example, even if a user account is resource
>> limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth)
>> are not. Attacks against these servers generally result in very high
>> loads and sometimes make it diff
Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>> There are other ways. For example, even if a user account is resource
>> limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth)
>> are not. Attacks against these servers generally result in very high
>> loads and sometimes make it dif
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > 4.4BSD derived system cannot do this, and have to use different
> > machine for such applications.
>
> Incorrect. We can set *limits* to the users, so they won't be able
> to crash down the system.
No. Really, not all users are used system in the same time. And it is t
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > 4.4BSD derived system cannot do this, and have to use different
> > machine for such applications.
>
> Incorrect. We can set *limits* to the users, so they won't be able
> to crash down the system.
No. Really, not all users are used system in the same time. And it is
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Eh? Reasonable programs *never* run into trouble. Trouble only
> happens when you have unreasonable programs around, or did not
> configure the system correctly. And if you did not configure the
> system correctly, why do you think you would be able to correctly
> estimat
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Eh? Reasonable programs *never* run into trouble. Trouble only
> happens when you have unreasonable programs around, or did not
> configure the system correctly. And if you did not configure the
> system correctly, why do you think you would be able to correctly
> estima
Mike Smith wrote:
> pw = getpwuid(getuid());
> strlcpy(buf, pw->dir, sizeof(buf));
> strlcat(buf, "/.appname/", sizeof(buf));
> strlcat(buf, conffilename, sizeof(buf));
> if (strlen(buf) >= sizeof(buf))
> return(error);
> fp = fopen(buf, "r");
> ...
>
> That works, as long as M
Mike Smith wrote:
> pw = getpwuid(getuid());
> strlcpy(buf, pw->dir, sizeof(buf));
> strlcat(buf, "/.appname/", sizeof(buf));
> strlcat(buf, conffilename, sizeof(buf));
> if (strlen(buf) >= sizeof(buf))
> return(error);
> fp = fopen(buf, "r");
> ...
>
> That works, as long as
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