[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Oh, for crying out loud. All it takes is half an hour per filesystem.
Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd be very
surprised.
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Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that the generic list structure already has support for batching.
It only does it for multiple adds right now (see the list_splice
merging code), but there is nothing to stop people from doing it for
multiple deletions too. The code is something
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Al posted a patch to the NFS code which removes nfs_inode_info from the
inode union. Since it is (AFAIK) the largest member of the union, we
have just saved 24 bytes per inode (hfs_inode_info is also rather large).
If we removed hfs_inode_info as
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Oh, for crying out loud. All it takes is half an hour per filesystem.
Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd be very
surprised.
tone polite What's stopping you? /tone
You _are_ JFFS
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:33:00AM -0400, you [Tom Leete] claimed:
The build problen with Athlon+SMP was solved by AA's patch. I had tested a
similar patch on UP over 2.4.0-test and previous 2.4 releases with nary a
problem.
This may be too experimental for your purposes, but FWIW I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
tone polite What's stopping you? /tone You _are_ JFFS maintainer,
aren't you?
It already uses...
#define JFFS2_INODE_INFO(i) (i-u.jffs2_i)
It's trivial to switch over when the size of the inode union goes below the
size of struct jffs2_inode_info. Until then, I'd
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:56:11AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
| +: +m (sem-count), +a (sem)
^^ I think you were comenting on
the +m not +a ok
From what I've been told, you're
Alex Riesen wrote:
Should it be fixed? And, maybe the other define's around
should be fixed too?
The comment line above actually says it all. The defines
have been added because at the time of writing this file
rw semaphores did not work in a module, so they were
replaced with mutexes using
I'd love to hear this sequence. Certainly regression testing never generated
this sequence yet but yes that doesn't mean anything. Note that your slow
path is very different than mine.
One of my testcases fell over on it...
I don't feel the need of any xchg to enforce additional
Hello Doug,
Monday, April 23, 2001, 9:54:35 PM, you wrote:
DL Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:
Hello,
I am a happy owner of Intel D815EEA2 mother board. This board
comes with integrated AC-97 audio. When I try to load i810_audio
driver for it, driver identifies the device as
Intel 810 +
I see what you meant here and no, I'm not lucky, I thought about that. gcc x
2.95.* seems smart enough to produce (%%eax) that you hardcoded when the
sem is not a constant (I'm not clobbering another register, if it does it's
stupid and I consider this a compiler mistake).
It is a compiler
Hi Al,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd
be very surprised.
tone polite What's stopping you? /tone
You _are_ JFFS maintainer, aren't you?
So is this the start to change all filesystems in 2.4? I am not sure
we
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:18:57PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
There's also AthlonLinux http://athlonlinux.org/ and AthlonGCC
http://athlonlinux.org/agcc/about.shtml, but I have no experience with those
(I have no Athlon ;( ).
A warning about agcc, I've discovered that it does not always
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:
Robert H. de Vries wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote:
By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all archs?
Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle counter in user space. That is at
least what I would propose.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:25:23AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
I'd love to hear this sequence. Certainly regression testing never generated
this sequence yet but yes that doesn't mean anything. Note that your slow
path is very different than mine.
One of my testcases fell over on it...
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:33:13AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
*grin* Fun ain't it... Try it on a dual athlon or P4 and the answer may come
out differently.
compile with -mathlon and the compiler then should generate (%%eax) if that's
faster even if the sem is a constant, that's a compiler
On 24 Apr 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
Hi Al,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd
be very surprised.
tone polite What's stopping you? /tone
You _are_ JFFS maintainer, aren't you?
So is this the start
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:39:22AM -0700, you [Joseph Carter] claimed:
A warning about agcc, I've discovered that it does not always compile code
quite the way you expect it. This is unsurprising given it's based on
pgcc which is known to change alignments on you in ways that sometimes
Steven Walter wrote:
It would seem that I have a modem (hardware based, not winmodem) of
PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER. This, unfortunately, prevents it from
being automagically detected by the serial driver, which only looks for
devices of
I've fixed this here merely by adding an
Hello Doug,
Monday, April 23, 2001, 9:54:35 PM, you wrote:
DL Both B and C are cases of the whole chip acting flat busted. I would suspect
DL that possibly Win2k drivers set this thing up some way that we don't recover
DL from. Is there any pattern like maybe I listen to X in Win2k then
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:18:57PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
There's also AthlonLinux http://athlonlinux.org/ and AthlonGCC
http://athlonlinux.org/agcc/about.shtml, but I have no experience with those
(I have no Athlon ;( ).
A warning about agcc,
time prime before x
real1m23.535s
user0m40.550s
sys 0m42.980s
/proc/mtrr before x
reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xfd80 (4056MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1
time prime after x
real0m48.732s
user0m41.070s
sys
I've noticed the same for 2.4.x kernels for quite a while back The first
appearence in logs/kernel is for 2.4.2-ac17.
Afaik I haven't noticed any resultant problems so I presume its just some
over-informative debugging code??
Cheers,
Matt Johnston.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:32, Byron Albert
Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
short version:
this is the international crypto patch, which is built outside of
the kernel source tree. you don't even have to reboot (unless your
kernel didn't have loop devices enabled, or some other unthought
situation exists... :)
As a
hi,
a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
for personal/casual win user.
i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
other operating system is the multi-user thing.
i think, no personal computer user should know about what's
an operating system idea of a
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 11:40, Martin Dalecki wrote:
Tim Jansen wrote:
The Linux Device Registry (devreg) is a kernel patch that adds a device
database in XML format to the /proc filesystem. It collects all
OH SHIT!! ^^^
Why don't you just add postscript output to /proc?
XML wasn't
How can i implement Event and Semaphore at kernel leverl(in any driver) in
Linux like
KeInitializeEvent
KeResetEvent
KeInitializeSemaphore
KeReleaseSemaphore
KeWaitForSingleObject
given in NT.
I wud appriciate if there is any suggestion or guidence.
Thanx Regards
Rajeev Nigam
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Then you're going to conjure up maintainers for the code which is currently
orphaned?
That's a *really* hard problem. I don't know how to
How about correcting the needed gcc version in Documentation/Changes?
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc version, i have
updated to gcc 3.0 and received the following error:
2.4.4pre6 only builds with gcc 2.96. If you apply the
As my original message seems to have disappeared, here a Repost:
Original Message
Subject: Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:28:14 +0200 (MEST)
From: Markus Schaber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rafael E. Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Markus Schaber
As it seems my original Messages didn't get through, a Repost here:
Original Message
Subject: Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:07:51 +0200 (MEST)
From: Markus Schaber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Markus Schaber [EMAIL
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
for personal/casual win user.
i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
other operating system is the multi-user thing.
What, makes it hard to write viruses for it?
Roger Gammans [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's entirley possible the problem will solve itself
when/if people like myself who hang around the edge of
kernel dev , find their favourite piece of kernel has
no maintainer - and volunteer.
So Eric solution may get new maintainers to appear for
The following patch moves the __GFP_IO check down to prune_icache(),
allowing !__GFP_IO allocations to free clean unused inodes.
Forget about this.
We may have to write quota information back to disk while freeing the
inode and then we are fucked.
Also you are looking at the none
There is a bug in both the C version and asm version of my rwsem
and it is the slow path where I forgotten to drop the _irq part
from the spinlock calls ;) Silly bug. (I inherit it also in the
asm fast path version because I started hacking the same C slow path)
I catched it now because it locks
Hello,
someone found out that in Linux adjtime()'s correction is limited to
something like 2000s (signed 32bit microseconds for i386). This is not
a true problem, but for those who desperately need/want it, I have a
patch proposal (incomplete, but essential) to implement the full range
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
for personal/casual win user.
i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
other operating system is the multi-user thing.
i think, no personal computer user should know about
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
for personal/casual win user.
i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
other operating system is the multi-user thing.
i think, no personal computer user should know about
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:00:17AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
I neglected to cc you for this small patch I sent just a few minutes ago.
I have several megs more of patches for Linus / Alan pending and this would
also be part of them. Just to avoid driving Linus Alan completly into
insanity I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What I would like to avoid is scenario like
Maintainers of filesystems with large private inodes: Why would we
separate them? We would only waste memory, since the other filesystems
stay in -u and keep it large.
Maintainers of the rest of filesystems: Since there's
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
What, makes it hard to write viruses for it? Awww, poor skr1pt k1dd13z...
And would that use by any chance include access to network?
So let him log in as root, do everything
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:48:19PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, AJ Lewis wrote:
It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature
manner. Saying I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't
bother to talk to them about it, I'll just
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip long wankage]
Equivalent of your patch can be achieved by making login(1) and
friends let everyone in as root without asking password. End of
story. If you don't understand even _that_ - you don't understand
the bloody basics of the system
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2001 14:44 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
So let him log in as root, do everything as root and be cracked
like a bloody moron he is. Next?
come on, it's hard for me as it's hard for you. not everybody
expect a computer to be
Sorry, sorry.
The lists are open.
Please tell us if mailman still bothers.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:46:53PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
Jens == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jens First one gets a mail saying that the mail sent is queued for
Jens moderator approval, since
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Sounds to me like you really don't get the whole concept of permissions
and that it's how Unix works.
Besides, why should the kernel do anythign different for you when there
are userland tools that you can
Someone else here traced the process flags of a FP-intensive program
on a machine before and after it is put in the faulty FPU state. He
periodically sampled /proc/pid/stat while the program was running.
He found that PF_USEDFPU was always set before the machine was broken.
After he found that
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:19:28PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I'm starting the benchmarks of the C version and I will post a number update
and a new patch in a few minutes.
(sorry for the below wrap around, just grow your terminal to read it stright)
aa RW
so you reproduced a deadlock with my patch applied, or you are saying
you discovered that case with one of you testcases?
It was my implementation that triggered it (I haven't tried it with yours),
but the bug occurred because the SUBL happened to make the change outside of
the spinlocked
Roger Gammans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...]
It's entirley possible the problem will solve itself
when/if people like myself who hang around the edge of
kernel dev , find their favourite piece of kernel has
no maintainer - and volunteer.
What stops you right now from to trying to find
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
Hence, Microsoft Windows. It might not be stable, it might not be fast, it
might not do RAID, packet-filtering and SQL, but it does a job. A simple
job. To give Mum Dad(tm) (with apologies to maddog) a chance to use a
computer.
Since when, did
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:01:12AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
For fsck sake! HFS patch. Time: 14 minutes, including checking that sucker
builds (it had most of the accesses to -u.hfs_i already encapsulated).
Al is right, it is no rocket science. Here is a patch against
2.4.4-pre6 for procfs
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a
runtime check. Not nice.
It transforms a broken and cryptic compile-time check into a correct and
informative runtime check.
These broken and cryptic
Hello.. All..
I upgraded the linux servers' kernel verison from 2.2.16 to 2.4.3 .
when my linux kernel version was 2.2.16, there is no problem to work.
but After upgrading, some critical problem is occured.
Surely, kernel compile option and method has no problem.
(H/W spec is P3 733 Dual,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:
:-) Great.
You and Alex are right - I agree that this is a complete moronism.
But, what I should say to the network security, is that AFAIK in the most
of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as
root! Having
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
You are on the wrong list. You don't modify the kernel to make
a single-user machine. You modify the password file in /etc/passwd.
Until you know, and completely understand this, you will be laughed at.
When an interactive process is started,
Hi Al,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
So yes, IMO having such patches available _is_ a good thing. And in
2.5 we definitely want them in the tree. If encapsulation part gets
there during 2.4 and separate allocation is available for all of
them it will be easier to do without PITA
I've fixed this here merely by adding an entry to the PCI table of
serial.c for PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER. Is this the best way to fix
this? Is there some reason that this shouldn't be done in general? If
not, I'd like to see it fix in the kernel proper.
Most class other devices wont
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:27:56PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
Hence, Microsoft Windows. It might not be stable, it might not be fast, it
might not do RAID, packet-filtering and SQL, but it does a job. A simple
job. To give Mum Dad(tm) (with
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:
of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as
root! Having multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port
1024? Is there any elegant solution?
Sendmail is old. Consider it as a remnant of times when network
sorry, my email address was wrong, it's [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:36:12 +0200 (CEST)
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dirty entry in transmit queue on eth
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
Correct. 1024 requires root to bind to the port.
... And nothing says that it should be done by daemon itself.
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
okay, it wouldn't cost me. but it surely easier if everybody used
linux, so i could put my ext2 disk everywhere i want.
hey, it's obvious that it's not for a server!
i try to point out a problem for people not on this list, don't
work around that
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, [ks_c_5601-1987] ¿À´Ã°ú³»ÀÏ È«¼®¹ü wrote:
(1) some process is not killed
I built kernel 2.4.3 in my linux server which works in php+mysql.
But after a few days, I found that my mysql daemon was not work.
(But mysql process is seen)
So I typed like this to kill the
Alan Cox wrote:
I've fixed this here merely by adding an entry to the PCI table of
serial.c for PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER. Is this the best way to fix
this? Is there some reason that this shouldn't be done in general? If
not, I'd like to see it fix in the kernel proper.
Most
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Roland Seuhs wrote:
with multi-user concept, conceptually there should be an
administrator to create account, grant permission, etc.
no my sister doesn't want that. i bet there are billions of
people not willing to learn how to use a computer, they just
want to use it.
There is udelay(usecs) function which has told by Ofer Fryman one of the
member of mailing list, not delay(usecs) and its working properly.
Thanx to u all for ur cooperation.
Regards,
Rajeev
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From: Hubertus Franke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:
of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as
root! Having multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port
1024? Is there any elegant solution?
Sendmail
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:07:47PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
It was my implementation that triggered it (I haven't tried it with yours),
but the bug occurred because the SUBL happened to make the change outside of
the spinlocked region in the slowpath at the same time as the wakeup routine
Heavy disc writes (eg. unzipping linux kernel source) cause the system
processor usage (as reported by top/xosview) to jump to 100%, making
the X mouse/audio freeze etc.
Such problems occur with the drives connected to VIA vt82c686b south
bridge: the same drives on a mvp3 show no such problems.
so what the hell is transmeta doing with mobile linux (midori).
is it going to teach multi-user thing to tablet owners?
Thats you problem. Distinguish the OS from the user interface.
surely mortals expect midori to behave like their pc. lets say
on redhat, they have to login as root to
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
Aah. I see. Where was this? I never saw it.
psst, it's a proto.
That may be so, so hack up your own OS. It's a MOBILE PHONE, it needs to be
absolutely *rock solid*. Look at the 5110, that's just about perfect. The
7110, on the other hand ...
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:
Thanks for the comment. And why not just let it listen to 25 and then
being run as uid=nobody, gid=mail?
Handling of .forward, for one thing. Or pipe aliases, or...
None of this stuff is unsolvable (e.g. handling of .forward belongs to
MDA, not
Alan Cox wrote:
Well, would it be possible to create some module under LGPL, and then
have included it into the kernel? Maybe it needs to maintain the LGPL
version out of the kernel, and transform a copy to the GPL before
submitting?
There is kernel code under a whole variety of
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
so what the hell is transmeta doing with mobile linux (midori).
is it going to teach multi-user thing to tablet owners?
Thats you problem. Distinguish the OS from the user interface.
sigh. is that mean the little thing had to do capable() check
each
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
Correct. 1024 requires root to bind to the port.
... And nothing says that it should be done by daemon itself.
Or that you shouldnt let inetd do it for you
And that you shouldn't drop the capabilities except that bind
It is possible to implement
Well, would it be possible to create some module under LGPL, and then
have included it into the kernel? Maybe it needs to maintain the LGPL
version out of the kernel, and transform a copy to the GPL before
submitting?
There is kernel code under a whole variety of licenses. When linked
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
Correct. 1024 requires root to bind to the port.
... And nothing says that it should be done by daemon itself.
Or that you shouldnt let inetd do it for you
And that you shouldn't drop the capabilities
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even my digital tv box has multiple users. The fact you cannot figure out how
to make your UI present that to the end user in a suitable manner is not
the kernels problem. Get a real UI designer
if it's useful, it's okay. if not, what is it doing
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
Correct. 1024 requires root to bind to the port.
... And nothing says that it should be done by daemon itself.
Or that you shouldnt let inetd do it for you
And that you shouldn't
Even my digital tv box has multiple users. The fact you cannot figure out how
to make your UI present that to the end user in a suitable manner is not
the kernels problem. Get a real UI designer
if it's useful, it's okay. if not, what is it doing there?
For one it allowing you to build
Hi all,
Has anybody ported insane or snull from Rubini to kernel 2.4.3?
I'm porting Rubini's example: insane.
/* --
* definition of the private data structure used by this interface
*/
struct insane_private {
struct
14USA-18X Serial Adapter. Distribution and/or
Modification of the
15keyspan.c driver which includes this firmware, in whole
or in part,
16requires the inclusion of this statement.
17
18 */
with a surelly non-free/non-GPL license.
That one is being sorted out currently. The
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
It is possible to implement the entire mail system without anything running
as root but xinetd.
You want an MDA with elevated privileges, though...
^
What role requires priviledge once the port is open ?
.forward handling may,
It is possible to implement the entire mail system without anything running
as root but xinetd.
You want an MDA with elevated privileges, though...
What role requires priviledge once the port is open ?
DNS lookup does not
Spooling to disk does not
Accepting a
I'm dealing with a driver wich need the IP address for specifics using.
I've read in the linux device driver (o'reilly) that I can use the field
pa_addr in the struct device. but it doesn't exist on my computer.
so I don't understand why ? Is anybody could tell me where finding the
IP address
I am attempting to write an init replacement that is capability-smart.
Though I'm pleased that prctl() lets me keep capabilities across a
setreuid(), maintaining caps over execve() seems impossible to do right.
I currently see a few options:
- use the CLOEXEC-pipe hack that execcap uses
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-2] Gábor Lénárt wrote:
Or even without xinetd. Just use local port forwarding eg 2525 - 25, and
This is more like 25 - 2525 :-)
use port 2525 as SMTP port in your MTA. I've succeed to setup such a
configuration.
This requires you to ensure that your MTA
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:
Robert H. de Vries wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote:
By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all archs?
Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle counter in user space. That is at
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
Roger Gammans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
People who want to take over because it is s00 k3w1 to be a maintainer
with no real interest in the code, just in the fact that it is orphaned...
No. People who want to give something back
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
Correct. 1024 requires root to bind to the port.
... And nothing says that it should be done by daemon itself.
Or that you shouldnt let inetd do it for you
And that you shouldn't drop the capabilities
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:37:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
What role requires priviledge once the port is open ?
DNS lookup does not
Spooling to disk does not
Accepting a connection from a client does not
Doing peercred auth with a client does not
Copying
Copying spool articles matching the peercred to the client does not
Running procmail as the user who is to receive the email for local mail
delivery as running it with gid mail (for eg) would allow one user to
modify another's mail.
What is this gid mail crap ? You don't need
I've always found the root 1024 to be quite limmited and find myself
wishing I could assign permissions based on ip/port.
Its been done. Search for 'sockfs' I believe it was called.
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Le 25 Apr 2001 00:06:57 +1000, Daniel Stone a écrit :
problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little.
We're too UNIX-centric, yet you're the one trying to put UNIX on a phone?
Come on ...
Hey ! We already put uClinux on a phone ! Full-fledge linux is not far,
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:49:57PM +0200, Pjotr Kourzanoff wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-2] Gbor Lnrt wrote:
Or even without xinetd. Just use local port forwarding eg 2525 - 25, and
This is more like 25 - 2525 :-)
OK, that was a hard night for me, I need some sleep :)
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:49:57PM +0200, Pjotr Kourzanoff wrote:
use port 2525 as SMTP port in your MTA. I've succeed to setup such a
configuration.
This requires you to ensure that your MTA is started first on that
port...Might be difficult to achieve reliably in an automatic way
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
What is this gid mail crap ? You don't need priviledge. You get the mail by
asking the daemon for it. procmail needs no priviledge either if it is done
right.
You just need to think about the security models in the right way. Linux
Hi,
I'm running 2.2.16-22 (Redhat Guiness) on a PC and
wanna upgrade to 2.4.3. Unfourtunately I get Unable to
open Ncurses libraries Error 1 if I make make menuconfig.
I read around the web and found that I've to install the devel
pack of ncurses too. No results, even if I do a make clean all
in
Alan Cox wrote:
so what the hell is transmeta doing with mobile linux (midori).
is it going to teach multi-user thing to tablet owners?
Thats you problem. Distinguish the OS from the user interface.
surely mortals expect midori to behave like their pc. lets say
on redhat, they have to
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