Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Flinders
Alan Cox wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html > > > Of course the URL that goes with that is : > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp > > Yes., Microsoft ship GNU C (quite legally) as part of their offerings... Do they include the

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-13 Thread Paul Flinders
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Sorry, but http://www.linux-ide.org/ clearly states that nothing below a > given line supports hardware/bios-soft raid. Promise are clearly being less than helpful here and that is not your fault. However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck"

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-03-06 Thread Paul Flinders
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > |> Andreas Schwab wrote: > |> > |> > This [isspace('\r') == 1] has no significance here. The right thing to > |> > |> > look at is $IFS, which does not contain \r by

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-03-05 Thread Paul Flinders
Paul Flinders wrote: > uses space (0x20) and tab (0x8) as white space and no other character. > I mean, of course, tab (_0x9_) I just checked - the kernel isspace() macro says that \r is whitespace. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-03-05 Thread Paul Flinders
Andreas Schwab wrote: > This [isspace('\r') == 1] has no significance here. The right thing to > look at is $IFS, which does not contain \r by default. The shell only splits > words by "IFS whitespace", and the kernel should be consistent with it: > > $ echo -e 'ls foo\r' | sh > ls: foo: No s

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-03-05 Thread Paul Flinders
Jeff Mcadams wrote: > Also sprach Rik van Riel > >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, John Kodis wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:22AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > >> > Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never > >> > has, and never will end a text line with '\r'. > > >> Un

dropping UDP packets on send

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Flinders
I'm trying to get some rough figures for the sort of performance I could expect from a load-balancing application whose job would be to re-direct incomming UDP packets to a set of target systems (and handle fail-over etc). To test this I wrote a very simple application that sends UDP packets out

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-01 Thread Paul Flinders
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: > http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html > > Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is > their "SWC 3.0" simply mean 'spec web cheat' and involve implimenting the >

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Paul Flinders
Matthias Andree wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: > > > > > Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling > > > of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTr

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Paul Flinders
Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTrak? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.4.1-pre7 SMP oops

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Flinders
My Dual 866Mhz PIII died whilst compiling gcc with ksymoops -m /boot/System.map-2.4.1-pre7 < ~/oops ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.1-pre7. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre7/ (default) -m /boot/System.map

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-15 Thread Paul Flinders
"David D.W. Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good! I'm not the only ome getting this error! Mine is also a VT82C686 > though mine is a VT82C686A (352 BGA). This is on an MSI Model 694D Pro > motherboard running dual PIII-733 FC-PGA 133MHz Coppermines. RAM is 4 > 256MB PC133 unbuffered 7ns n

2.2/2.4 on MSI 694D Pro-AIR (MS-6321)

2001-01-08 Thread Paul Flinders
Has anyone got either 2.2.x or 2.4.0 booted on the above motherboard? This board has an integrated Promise Fasttrack ATA/100 controller - I know that to support the hardware RAID I need the binary only drivers from Promise but I'd rather not use these if software RAID works as there's no source,

Problems with DFE-550 & Sundance driver

2000-11-23 Thread Paul Flinders
The sundance driver in 2.4.0-test11 doesn't seem to like a DFE-550 that I have On module installation te driver identifies the card but cant find any PHYs, also if I remove the module afterwards I can't reinsert it. Any suggestions? The messages are On installation: eth0: OEM Sundance Technol

Re: 255.255.255.255 won't broadcast to multiple NICs

2000-11-03 Thread Paul Flinders
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) Java sucks in many ways. Today's way is that it > never occurred to Sun that a machine might have more > than one IP address assigned to it, so > InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns exactly one > address. Unfortunately, just about EVERY machine has >