Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jesse Pollard
Tomas Telensky [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Pjotr Kourzanoff
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, CaT wrote: 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

Re: PIO disk writes using 100% system time and performing poorly with VIA vt82c686b on kernels 2.2 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread John Weber
Thomas Ford wrote: 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

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread alad
well... the book sounds good... but... I am still thinking... what it has to do with linux kernel ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/24/2001 04:27:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Amol Lad/HSS) Subject: Greetings! 1 in 6 children are victimized before the age of 16. Hello, my

Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisations try #3

2001-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Howells wrote: Yes but the struct rwsem_waiter batch would have to be entirely deleted from the list before any of them are woken, otherwise the waking processes may destroy their rwsem_waiter blocks before they are dequeued (this destruction is not guarded by a

Re: Problem with i810_audio driver

2001-04-24 Thread Doug Ledford
Eugene Kuznetsov wrote: The whole thing sounds to my mind as having some kind of resource, register, etc. which is supposed to be initialized during loading of drivers, but it's not done by i810_audio driver. Sounds that way to me too. I didn't write that portion of the code, so it will

Re: Problem with i810_audio driver

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:54:35PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: [...] Both B and C are cases of the whole chip acting flat busted. I would suspect that possibly Win2k drivers set this thing up some way that we don't recover from. H... quite possible. It's certainly true that a soft

Re: rwsem benchmark [was Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisationstry #3]

2001-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Again it's not a performance issue, the +a (sem) is a correctness issue because the slow path will clobber it. There must be a performance issue too, otherwise our read up/down fastpaths are the same. Which clearly they're not. I

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
1. email - sendmail 2. sendmail figures out what it has to do with it. turns out it's deliver ... Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to happen sendmail needs to start it as that user in step 3 and

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alex Riesen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: 1. email - sendmail 2. sendmail figures out what it has to do with it. turns out it's deliver ... Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to

Can't read SCSI TAPE

2001-04-24 Thread Masaki Tsuji
Dear sirs, Although 'tar' can write to SCSI-TAPE, can't read from. 'tar' reports .. -rw-r--r-- root/rootx 2001-xx-xx 01:23 usr/bin/xx tar: Skipping to next file header--"A" -rw-r--r-- root/rootx 2001-xx-xx 01:23 usr/bin/xxx ..

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-24 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:54:34PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools that let you mount a filesystem from an encrypted file instead of making a generic layer? That way you could have inter-os portability. The steganographic ones make

Can't read SCSI TAPE

2001-04-24 Thread Masaki Tsuji
Dear sirs, Although 'tar' can write to SCSI-TAPE, can't read from. 'tar' reports .. -rw-r--r-- root/rootx 2001-xx-xx 01:23 usr/bin/xx tar: Skipping to next file header--"A" -rw-r--r-- root/rootx 2001-xx-xx 01:23 usr/bin/xxx ..

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Ehrhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.) If I'm not mistaken switch_to changes current-flags without atomic operations and without any locks and sys_ptrace changes child-flags only protected by the big kernel lock. ptrace only operates on processes that are

random reboots

2001-04-24 Thread Nathan Walp
Help! My machine seems to be rebooting at random. Actually, it's more like the screen blanks, and suddenly the BIOS is going through POST. There may be a reset-button gnome in my case putting a jumper over the reset pins, but I seriously doubt it. ;-) I recently tried to switch from APM to

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
1.) If I'm not mistaken switch_to changes current-flags without atomic operations and without any locks and sys_ptrace changes child-flags only protected by the big kernel lock. ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no locking issues - we've synchronized on a

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
[ Alan, I'm lazy and only have 2.2.14 sources on-line. Maybe this has been fixed already and there's something else going on. Worth a look ] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Victor Zandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone else here traced the process flags of a FP-intensive program on a machine

Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisations try #3

2001-04-24 Thread David Howells
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - nobody will look up the list because we do have the spinlock at this point, so a destroyed list doesn't actually _matter_ to anybody I suppose that it'll be okay, provided I take care not to access a block for a task I've just woken up. -

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread David L. Parsley
Christoph Rohland wrote: OK I will do that for tmpfs soon. And I will do the symlink inlining with that patch. Wow, this thread really exploded, eh? But thanks, Christoph, I look forward to seeing your patch. 4k symlinks really suck for embedders who never swap out pages. ;-) regards,

Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-B3

2001-04-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: the latest swap-speedup patch can be found at: Please don't add more of those horrible wait arguments. Make two different versions of a function instead. It's going to clean up and simplify the code, and there really isn't any reason to do what you're

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:05:15AM -0500, Victor Zandy wrote: He found that PF_USEDFPU was always set before the machine was broken. After he found that it was set about 70% of the time. If I'm not mistaken this actully can cause GLOBAL FPU corruption. Here's why: Assyme for a moment that

Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-24 Thread mirabilos
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 my first choice. The 0.1.x versions used simple name/value pairs, I

shm_open doesn't work (fix maybe).

2001-04-24 Thread Tom Brusehaver (N-Sysdyne Corporation)
I have been chasing all around trying to find out why shm_open always returns ENOSYS. It is implemented in glibc-2.2.2, and seems the 2.4.3 kernel knows about shmfs. It seems the file linux/mm/shmem.c has: #define SHMEM_MAGIC 0x01021994 And the

Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-24 Thread Martin Dalecki
Tim Jansen wrote: 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

Re: Can't read SCSI TAPE

2001-04-24 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Masaki Tsuji wrote: Dear sirs, Hmmm... Masaki Tsuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] This address ... was the address that did the CA-2000-17 attack on one of our machines a few weeks ago. This is not an accusation, only an observation. You

RE: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Torrey Hoffman
think about personal devices. something like the nokia communicator. a system security passwd is acceptable, but that's it. no those- device-user would like to know about user account, file ownership, etc. they just want to use it. If you are making a personal device, like an appliance,

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a spinlock or semaphore. This is only true for requests other than PTRACE_ATTACH and

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jesse Pollard
- Received message begins Here - 1. email - sendmail 2. sendmail figures out what it has to do with it. turns out it's deliver ... Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Markus Schaber
Hello, On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to happen sendmail needs to start it as that user in step 3 and to do that it needs extra privs, above and beyond

Re: PIO disk writes using 100% system time and performing poorly with VIA vt82c686b on kernels 2.2 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread Ignacio Monge
Hi. I have VIA686a too and a UDMA100 hard disk. This is my cat /proc/ide/via: --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration Driver Version: 3.23 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686a Revision: ISA

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: come on, it's hard for me as it's hard for you. not everybody expect a computer to be like people here thinks how a computer should be. I'm sorry, you're looking at the problem the wrong way around. Its not a kernel problem,

Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message operation failed from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast message

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Chin-Tser Huang
Because there was a mail whose subject is Children first in fork. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well... the book sounds good... but... I am still thinking... what it has to do with linux kernel ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/24/2001 04:27:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use for personal/casual win user. from that, i also found out that it is very awkward to type username and password every time i use my computer. so here's a patch. Neet hack, but maybe the kernel isn't

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: Because there was a mail whose subject is Children first in fork. 1 in 6 children are victimized before the age of 16. Considering these statistics, I'm all for running children first after fork ... Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla:

Re: Greetings! kill children first

2001-04-24 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: Because there was a mail whose subject is Children first in fork. Gotta watch out for source-code that uses a 'reaper' to kill children from SIGCHLD. We'll get auto-mail from pervert.snuffer.com. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Victor Zandy
Christian Ehrhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Victor: Could you try to reproduce the system wide corruption if you add an explicit call to stts(); at the very end of __switch_to? This should prevent the FPU corruption from spreading. After adding this call, I cannot reproduce the global

Re: Greetings! kill children first

2001-04-24 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:03:44PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: Because there was a mail whose subject is Children first in fork. Gotta watch out for source-code that uses a 'reaper' to kill children from SIGCHLD. We'll get auto-mail from

Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message operation failed from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast message

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
child-flags |= PF_PTRACED; without waiting for the child to have stopped. I can see how this could case PF_USEDFPU to be cleared inadvertently, but I do not have any ideas for testing this. Is it clear that this is the source of the problem? There is no guarantee that |=

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Garett Spencley
that also explain why win95 user doesn't want to use NT. not because they can't afford it (belive me, here NT costs only us$2), but additional headache isn't acceptable. I'm going to speak from experience: My mother, who is the biggest windoze fan on the face of the universe, got fed up

orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Linus, I've got a question... I would like where to send my driver patches... One month ago, I sent a small update for the orinoco_cs driver and Wireless Extensions. I didn't put all the changes I had for orinoco_cs because I believe in small incremental updates

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: Encapsulation part is definitely worth doing - it cleans the code up and doesn't change the result of compile. Adding allocation/freeing/ cache initialization/cache removal and chaninging FOOFS_I() definition - well, it's probably worth to keep such patches around, but whether to

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: One thing to watch out for is that the current code zeros the u. struct for us (as you pointed out to me previously), but allocating from the slab cache will not... This could be an interesting source of bugs for some filesystems that assume

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Eric Mouw writes: Al is right, it is no rocket science. Here is a patch against 2.4.4-pre6 for procfs and isofs. It took me an hour to do because I'm not familiar with the fs code. It compiles, and the procfs code even runs (sorry, no CDROM player availeble on my embedded StrongARM system),

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: While I applaud your initiative, you made an unfortunate choice of filesystems to convert. The iso_inode_info is only 4*__u32, as is proc_inode_info. Given that we still need to keep a pointer to the external info structs, and the overhead of

Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Jansen
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 18:43, mirabilos wrote: What about indenting? I think of 0 spaces before the device name, 1 space before properties which belong to the device. Structure per entry: [Space] Name colon property But what is the advantage? Its not less work in the kernel, and in

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread David =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F3mez
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote: 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 multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port 1024? Is there any elegant

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: Well, if we get rid of NFS (50 x __u32) and HFS (44 * __u32) (sizes are approximate for 32-bit arches - I was just counting by hand and not strictly checking alignment), then almost all other filesystems are below 25 * __u32 (i.e. half of the previous size). Yeah, but NFS

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Victor Zandy
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The preferable one for performance is certainly to backport the 2.4 changes Is it any more substantial than changing all uses of the ptrace flags to the new variable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [lkml]Re: Matrox FB console driver

2001-04-24 Thread thunder7
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:19:31AM -0500, Andy Carlson wrote: 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,

Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle

2001-04-24 Thread Raimondo Giammanco
Here is a bug report in the format requested by linux/REPORTING-BUGS. [1] Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle [2] The System was idle for 1h or so while I was away, and coming back I found it frozen. It was responding to ping, but telnet and relogin weren't working.

Re: Spurious interrupts for UP w/ IO-APIC on ServerWorks

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
I've got a dual-processor system built around the Intel SBT2 motherboard, which uses the ServerWorks LE chipset. 2.4.3 SMP works fine. When I build a UP kernel with IO-APIC support, I get this during boot: Turn off the OSB4 driver - bet that helps 2.4.3 has this behavior, 2.4.3-ac9 works

Re: orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
patch (without feedback), whereas Alan picked it up (if I remember correctly it was included in his 'patch-2.4.2-ac28'). So now, what should I do with the rest of my updates and the new one that have accumulated since ? Should I wait until you grab the first patch from Alan's tree ?

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:56:32PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a spinlock or semaphore.

Re: sym53c875 error

2001-04-24 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Hamilton, Eamonn wrote: Hi Folks. Under all of the kernels I have access to try ( 2.2.19, 2.4.X 2.4.X-ac* ), when I try and write an image in XA2 format to my SCSI writer ( Yamaha CDR-400t ), I get a DMA overrun. When I try with a kernel patched with the beta

2.2.19 and file lock on NFS?

2001-04-24 Thread apark
Hi, Recently upgraded to 2.2.19, along with new nfs-utils(0.3.1). But I have a program that requires a exclusive write lock on a NFSed directory. When I was using 2.2.17 all was ok, but now it returns ENOLCK. Does anybody else have the same problem? Thanks -Andrew - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Spurious interrupts for UP w/ IO-APIC on ServerWorks

2001-04-24 Thread Jim Schutt
Alan Cox wrote: I've got a dual-processor system built around the Intel SBT2 motherboard, which uses the ServerWorks LE chipset. 2.4.3 SMP works fine. When I build a UP kernel with IO-APIC support, I get this during boot: Turn off the OSB4 driver - bet that helps It does -- no more

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:47:38PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: While I applaud your initiative, you made an unfortunate choice of filesystems to convert. The iso_inode_info is only 4*__u32, as is proc_inode_info. Given that we still need to keep a pointer to the external info structs, and

BUG: USB/Reboot

2001-04-24 Thread Collectively Unconscious
If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: BUG: USB/Reboot

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x In almost all cases a hang after Linux reboots the system and it not coming back to the BIOS is a BIOS bug. You can confirm this by asking the kernel to do a real bios reboot with the reboot= option - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
== Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jan Harkes wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:45:05PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: BTW: Is it still less than one page? Then it doesn't make me nervous. Why? Guess what granularity we allocate at, if we

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:49:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: One thing to watch out for is that the current code zeros the u. struct for us (as you pointed out to me previously), but allocating from the slab cache will not... This could be an

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On 24 Apr 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: Hi Al, I believe your patch introduces a race for the NFS case. The problem lies in the fact that nfs_find_actor() needs to read several of the fields from nfs_inode_info. By adding an allocation after the inode has been hashed, you are creating

Re: orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: patch (without feedback), whereas Alan picked it up (if I remember correctly it was included in his 'patch-2.4.2-ac28'). So now, what should I do with the rest of my updates and the new one that have accumulated since ? Should

Re: how does linux support domino?

2001-04-24 Thread Jorge Nerin
Xiong Zhao wrote: hello.on linux we will see a new domino server process/thread is created for each client.how does linux do this?does it use pthread?using fork or clone or someway else?what's the common way of linux to support apps like lotus domino that will have lots of concurrent users

Compiled sound causes loss of scrollback console : 2.4.4-p6

2001-04-24 Thread Colonel
While tracking down a sound problem, I decided to compile in the soundblaster rather than use modules. It's been a long time since I ran sound under linux, but that used to work fine. I watched the reboot, noticed the usual isapnp stuff (part of problem) ... PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting

Re: [PATCH] properly detect ActionTec modem of PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER

2001-04-24 Thread Steven Walter
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:18:36PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: Steven Walter wrote: This patch allows the serial driver to properly detect and set up the ActionTec PCI modem. This modem has a PCI class of COMMUNICATION_OTHER, which is why this modem is not otherwise detected. Any

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
== Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: _Ouch_. So what are you going to do if another iget4() comes between the moment when you hash the inode and set these fields? You are filling them only after you drop inode_lock, so AFAICS the current code has the same

Re: 2.2.19 and file lock on NFS?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
== apark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Recently upgraded to 2.2.19, along with new nfs-utils(0.3.1). But I have a program that requires a exclusive write lock on a NFSed directory. When I was using 2.2.17 all was ok, but now it returns ENOLCK. Does anybody

Re: orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:15:08PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: [...] Downloaded the patch again (patch-2.4.4-pre6), checked that it was complete, my patch is in. Oups ! Do I feel stupid... Let's finish this story. As indicated above, the first fragment of the patch I sent on

Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

2001-04-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 23 Apr 2001 12:54:22 -0600, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll include it again. I had it attached as a plain text attachment, I don't know if that is a problem or not. Actually it was attached as text/x-patch, not as text/plain... so pine certainly refused to display it

[PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Matt_Domsch
Thanks everyone for your input again. I've made the changes suggested, and would appreciate this being applied to Linus' and Alan's trees. This is necessary for solving the what disk does BIOS think is my boot disk problem on IA-64, and I hope to extend it to IA-32 when BIOSs permit. Jeff

2001-04-24 release of hotplug scripts

2001-04-24 Thread Greg KH
I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 This release adds the Debian scripts to the tarball, although all of the debian specific changes were not merged into the main

Re: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-24 Thread Martin Clausen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:22:15AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Also, what is a good rock solid SCSI RAID controller? Money is no object. Reliability, performance and Linux compatibility are though. I have very good experiences with the Mylex controllers/drivers! But then again I also

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 3:59 PM -0600 4/24/01, Richard Gooch wrote: The plan I have (which I hope to get started on soon, now that I'm back from travels), is to change /dev/scsi/host# from a directory into a symbolic link to a directory called: /dev/bus/pci0/slot1/function0. Thus, to access a partition via location,

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using bash value? It means I can do anything on my ipaq I can do anywhere else. I can run multiple apps at a time. I can run X11. I can run the palm emulator even ;) Its

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using bash value? I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool, and using

Mail boucing...

2001-04-24 Thread Shawn Starr
Sorry if my mail has been bouncing. I've been experimenting with some configurations and I am moving tomorrow so my domain/IP will be changing. Whoever, deleted me from list, thanks. Please don't block sh0n.net though from posting. I'll read myself when my new IP is added to my domain. Thank

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 5:01 PM -0700 2001-04-24, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill. Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. http://www.agendacomputing.com/ (not that the reviews have been very kind) -- /Jonathan

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using bash value? I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking netfilter

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:35:10PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:32:46AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling Netfilter (it takes HOW

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Stuart Lynne
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using bash value? It means I can do anything on my ipaq I can do anywhere else. I can run multiple apps at a

Event tools, do they exist

2001-04-24 Thread george anzinger
This is an attempt to look in the wheel locker. I need a simple event sub system for use in the kernel. I envision at least two types of events: the history event and the timing event. The timing event would keep track of start/stop times by class. If, for example, I wanted to know how much

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote: OK. time make bzImage. Of course, mine's really slow (and I will consider myself publically humiliated if my only Linux machine is beaten on a kernel compile by an iPAQ). I 'spose, if it only goes into suspend, the ability to write uptime on it

Process start times moving in reverse on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread Phil Oester
I've been having continual unexplained lockup problems since converting one of my outgoing qmail servers to 2.4.x. This has been discussed before on this list, where the symptoms are that anything typed on console takes forever to actually come up, and after a few minutes the machine is so

Re: 2.2.19 Realaudio masq problem

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Moore
I've been running masquerading unchanged from 2.2.13, currently 2.2.19 as: real IP + masq. 192.168.1.NNN DSL - gateway - switch - client 1 server - client 2 ... - client n There was some

Re: Can't read SCSI TAPE

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Moore
mt : mt-st v. 0.4 Also mt-st v0.5b were fairly broken especially with positioning. rgds, tim. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Also, I initially built ac13 with: make mrproper make menuconfig and it doesn't ask whether I want to build the normal USHI USB driver either as a module or builtin to the kernel, only whether I want to build the alternative USHI USB dirver (the JE driver). Make xconfig

CML2 Transition experiences

2001-04-24 Thread jeff millar
1. If I install CML2 and go directly to make xconfig, it deduces it needs to set top level options because some of the low level options are set. For example SCSI enabled because some SCSI device is set or hot plug because PCMCIA is set...because some PCMCIA device is set. The _problem_

Re: orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:56:37PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:15:08PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: [...] Downloaded the patch again (patch-2.4.4-pre6), checked that it was complete, my patch is in. Oups ! Do I feel stupid... Let's finish this

Re: orinoco_cs IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:25:50PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: Ok, now to the second chapter. These are all the changes accumulated since the patch I sent one month ago (cf previous e-mail). Changes : o more Prism2/Symbol compatibility goodies o

Re: Scheduling bug for SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR

2001-04-24 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Nigel Gamble wrote: A SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR task with priority n+1 will not preempt a running task with priority n. You need to give the higher priority task a priority of at least n+2 for it to be chosen by the scheduler. The problem is caused by reschedule_idle(),

Re: Event tools, do they exist

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
george anzinger wrote: This is an attempt to look in the wheel locker. I need a simple event sub system for use in the kernel. I envision at least two types of events: the history event and the timing event. The timing event would keep track of start/stop times by class. If, for

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Roger Gammans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: 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 to

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