Re: Zeroing sensitive memory chunks [Was: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies]

2008-02-26 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > *) New function OPENSSL_cleanse(), which is used to cleanse a section of >memory from it's contents. This is done with a counter that will >place alternating values in each byte. This can be used to solve >two issues: 1) the removal of

Re: SCHED_ULE trouble after ugrade 6.2-RELEASE -> 6.3-RELEASE

2008-02-04 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, there is no possibility of ULE 2.0 being merged to 6.x. Use it in > 6.x if you dare, just don't complain to us if it breaks your system :-) All right, I won't :-) > i.e. if at any point you start experiencing problems, do not report them > until

Re: SCHED_ULE trouble after ugrade 6.2-RELEASE -> 6.3-RELEASE

2008-02-04 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do NOT use ULE on 6.x. ULE has been revamped heavily on 7.0 and the > version on 6.x is old, and is known to contain some bugs. Is it particular to 6.x *SMP* systems ? I've been using 6.3-R with ULE for about a fortnight without any trouble (on a pentium4-m

Re: mutex lock for filesystem list.

2008-01-14 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > but be warned that th at book was written part way through the SMP > rewrite so a lot has changed... Dr McKusick said the words "Next > edition" the other day but I think it's still just a glimmer in his eye. I for one am _really_ looking forward to

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-04 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Fernando ApesteguĂ­a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe a mix of both could be good: use the linxprocfs when it is > almost straightforward (in fact I could run the app, just changing few > lines) and sysctl when the linprocfs doesn't provide the information > that I need. And I just made a fool

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-04 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Fernando ApesteguĂ­a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe a mix of both could be good: use the linxprocfs when it is > almost straightforward (in fact I could run the app, just changing few > lines) and sysctl when the linprocfs doesn't provide the information > that I need. Wouldn't the opposite

Re: Semaphores

2008-01-04 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For general information on the FreeBSD kernel see the book "Design and > implementation of the FreeBSD operating system", Will this edition be updated, or is it still relevant with the coming of 7.0 ? It was written with 5.0 in mind, and considerable prog

Re: presenting WOL to the user (was: Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card)

2007-11-29 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Quoting Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >flags= > mtu 1500 > > Would that be better? IMHO, too much info packed in here, making reading difficult. > Has anyone got better ideas? What if there was a single line added, right after status for instance: wol: (magic) unicast link multicast

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-26 Thread gregoryd . freebsd
Hello, Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No problem -- just to be clear: in 7, users can still choose between > libpthread (m:n) and libthr (1:1), but the default is now libthr rather than > libpthread, as libthr seemed to perform better in most if not all workloads > of > interest. I