A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
[bcc'ed to committers, hackers] My last pamphlet was sufficiently well received that I was not scared away from sending another one, and today I have the time and inclination to do so. I've had a little trouble with deciding on the right distribution of this kind of stuff, this time it is bcc'

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot; basis. I actually think we should not get into the jail thing, but rather make them inheritable like other credentials, so the structure containing the stuff should hang of the proc structure, and hey wait, we already have this "struct ucred" hanging there. -- Poul-Hen

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
system, more general id would be > desirable. I agree, *IF* IPv6 ever becomes a reality, we will look at this. >(2)What is the goal of the restriction? To isolate people in the jail from the "real" machine and from other jails. > If physical level access pr

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
50% or more of my users using IPv6 I'll consider it a reality. So far IPv6 has gotten no futher than OSI ever did. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a lon

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uitealive to me though. Ohh, OSI was quite a live for a long time as well, until the government funded life-support was cut, then it evaporated overnight. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." F

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jamie Bowden writes: > >-security stripped > >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yoshinobu Inoue writes: > >:>(2)What is the goal of the restriction? > >:To isolate people

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
IPv4) I'm not against adding IPv6 functionality to jail(2), my point is merely that until somebody who has sufficient time & ability to fiddle with it does it, it's not going to happen. The usual rule applies: "Great idea, why don't you send me patches which does this ?"

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
s solution is that processes in a same jail >won't be necessariliy binded to a same address, but does it >matters? Yes, that also matters, this is a administrative facility. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
8) command can also accept DNS name, and then it resolve > the name internally and, > if A record is obtained, specify its address into "ip_number". > if record is obtained, also specify its address into "ip6_number". Sure, this is trivial to do. -- Poul-Henn

Bumping libstdc++ version number

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
version number bump, and therefore -core hereby gives David O'Brien permission to do so. for -core, Poul-Henning Kamp -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a

Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file

1999-12-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
similar. Only very recently used inodes are in memory actually. They die with the vnode which maybe still die to fast. Putting the inode with the data saves a little less than one diskaccess on average per file, which for truly random access filesystems is a good thing. -- Poul-Henning Kam

IEEE-488: looking for junk :-)

2000-01-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hen I have something they can test, but let me know if any of you have lists of wanted features. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

Re: IEEE-488: looking for junk :-)

2000-01-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ray Hyatt Jr." writes: >Are you interested in external floppy drives with that type >of bus? Not really. The intent of the driver is to interface to ascii based test/lab equipment, not to apply for membership in the antique hardware societ

Re: IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
t;but don't hold your breath. No, in fact the AIX version was so hard to port that OSF eventually had to give up trying. It was rather closely married to the VM hardware on the Power CPU. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hac

Re: NETGRAPH (proposal. FINAL)

2000-02-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ut on the wire. But the driver would know and could issue an error or warning in that case ? I guess the packet should be failed with ENOCANDO ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -

Re: splFoo() question

2000-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>critical sections look to be very expensive. They only need >protection against the card itself, not against the entire system. It >just seems to be an overly large hammer. I miss this too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] &qu

Re: splFoo() question

2000-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wes Peters writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >> >> >I'd like to be able to do some simple spl locking in a driver that I'm >> >writi

Re: md_image compression?

2000-03-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
y sectors, that will give you a little bit of compression. >3. This would effectively add libz to the kernel. We actually already have a unzip'er available in the kernel, the one which was used for unzip'ing a.out executables. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EM

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
d the info to DG so hopefully it will be >patched soon. > >DB -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dennis writes: >At 08:07 PM 3/27/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>Dennis, >> >>You need to work with the maintainer of the driver on issues like >>this, and as you have found out that is David Greenman. > >Been t

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ady fixed it myself. So if you fix it its not for me at all. >> >> Since you appear to have fixed the problems and updated the code, >>would you like to submit it for review? > >I would, except as we speak Poul-Henning Kamp is trying to have my posts >censored,so th

Re: OpenBSD says it has "optimised kernel fdalloc". Is this relevant for FreeBSD

2000-03-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ibrary/proceedings/usenix98/full_papers/banga/banga_html/banga.html > >Is this relevant for FreeBSD ? The problem: yes, the solution: maybe. Other people have worked on an eventqueue based solution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] &q

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David O'Brien" writes: >Access to ftp.internat.freebsd.org from the USA (and presumably >elsewhere) is an abomination. Isn't there *anyone* with an permanate FTP >server that could officially mirror the crypto bits from >ftp.internat.freebsd.org? I may be able t

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David E. Cross" writes: >I then used dump/restore to ensure that the >inode numbers would remain the same. I don't think restore can preserve inode numbers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel adjustment for clock drift

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
burst mode is pretty good for dial-up/demand lines. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Frame relay driver

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
should support it, and I belive the if_ar and if_sr will as well. If you are interested in a V.35 style sync card, I have one which LMC (www.lanmedia.com) lent me, but for which I have not gotten the driver converted to netgraph yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PR

Re: Frame relay driver ( also E1 PRI? )

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Len Conrad wri tes: > >If you are interested in a V.35 style sync card, I have one which > >LMC (www.lanmedia.com) lent me, but for which I have not gotten > >the driver converted to netgraph yet. > >Poul-Henning Kamp > >===

Re: Frame relay driver

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ards converted to netgraph. I just need to >clean it up a bit. I've had it working for a couple days now. Cool! For which models ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: memory in the kernel

2000-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
zes beforehand. How do I do that? Do I malloc a new >region, copy manually and release the old one? Yes, we have no realloc(9). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never a

Re: NFS attribute cache & profiling sysctl variables

2000-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. However, you should see them with -A... You can also write a >trivial 10 line program to try and retrieve the values by calling >sysctlbyname (or sysctl if you know the OIDs). ... Or use sysctl -b mumble.frotz | hexdump -C -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMA

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
s is "gps.freebsd.dk" one of, if not the, most precise NTP stratum 1 servers in the world: +/- 20nsec. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
by postal code, but it comes *very* close. >That just means that military use is even better already, i.e. I just >imagine they are at 1m or less already. Not quite, the military system is only better because it has two frequencies, and that doesn't improve things *that* much. -- Pou

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Langer writ es: >Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> not supposed to know about how it works) which gives them an even more >> interesting and powerful DOS on the GPS system. I doesn't quite work >>

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
nto the centimeter range, depending on the satelite coverage where you are. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incomp

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
which is part of all programs. There you will find both the environment and the cmd line args. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequate

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hipsets are overkill if you don't live more or les exactly on the equator or one of the poles. Here where I live (56 north) about 30% of the sky is never covered by a satelite because of the inclination of the satelites being non-zero. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [E

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wes Peters writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >> >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: >> >: With 12-channel chipsets becoming commo

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
tes here, but it may be >that the GPS satellites have orbits that prefer the US? Not really, but they don't bother going over the poles. Plot the orbits based on the almanac and you can see the pattern. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vening, I was with some friend on the other side of town" and the police then playing a GSM call and showing the area where the phone could have been at the time of the call. They need a court order of for both wire-tapping and getting hold of the location information. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
PAGESIZE; > } >} > >So, the call above is returning the page number (of the physical address >(of bktr->bigbuf)). > >Of course, My ignorance will probably be corrected in due course! >-- >Peter. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wi

Re: rexec as root

2000-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
d change makes sense. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: PR kern/18346 - struct file ref count is a short, can be overflowed

2000-05-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rom >userland and cause other serious problems, such as file descriptor >stealing (what happens when you roll the ref count to 0?). Any > objections? Agreed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coretea

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
have other ports with far weirder licenses. Only too bad it took them 10 years to realize what the key to a success in the UNIX world is :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: ATM adapter

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Get the Fore PCA200 and use the "HARP" ATM code which is far more functional than the "Chuck ATM" code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribut

Re: netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Len Conrad wri tes: >There was some talk about this back in March or so, leaving me rembering >someone said that it wouldn't be too hard or long to do it. > >Has there been any progress? I have still not received my hardware :-( -- Poul-He

Re: Linux and FreeBSD dual universe

2000-05-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
available to create It did nøt use variant symbolic links, it used a namei hack. If you had a directory containing: . .. .ucbfoo .attfoo bar and you were in universe "ucb" you would see: . foo bar where "foo" would take you to

Re: How do I time in kernel...

2000-05-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>Can I use gettimeofday() inside kernel? if so why 3.3 is panicking? Ifnot >why 3.1 is not panicking? It's called "microtime()" in the kernel. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
you can't behave like an adult shut up and go away. > >I understand it, and I think it sucks. "Cogito ergo cogito ergo sum" as one of the fortunes claims with little regard to latin grammer. You forgot the bit about "shut up and go away" Dennis, despite the fact tha

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
You should make the exceeding of a quota a ipfw criteria rather than an ipfw action, that way people can deny, drop, forward or DUMMYNET packets exceeeding the quota. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
say say ipfw deny all ip from any to any exquota any as well as: ipfw deny all ip from any to any exquota guest -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Nev

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Huebner writes: >On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> It should be possible to say say >> >>ipfw deny all ip from any to any exquota any >> >> as well as: >> >>ip

Anyone feel like donating a T1 CSU/DSU ?

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that can do fractional T1), they could part with for a good cause, I would be most happy. A V.35 CSU/DSU would be great but other devices can probably be fit into my setup as well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD cor

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Don't get all upset because one or two people come across a bit grumpy on email. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ectly, so you'd better >clean up after it"? How is the microcode loading handled in LinuxBIOS ? As far as I know getting hold of the microcode-supplemental data from Intel is a process which is (impossible - epsilon) and certainly not open source compatible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp

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