Re: [osol-discuss] Some fun with isaexec(1) ...

2006-03-25 Thread Casper . Dik
Few minutes ago the issue came up in irc://irc.freenode.org/#opensolaris why isaexec(1) does not use the isaexec(3C) function. Attached is a patch (solaris_usr_lib_isaexec_uses_isaexec_3c_function.diff.txt) which fixes the problem. * Benefits of the patch: - /usr/lib/isaexec will be smaller and

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-25 Thread Casper . Dik
[The following falls under the category micro-optimisation but may IMO still be worth an investigation] After working on various parts of OpenSolaris I found that is common to use the following sequence to concatenate strings: -- snip -- ... char *s; ... strcat(s, foo); strcat(s, /); strcat(s,

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments/suggestions/ideas welcome... Why not a varargs: strMANYcat(): strMANYcat(s, foo, /, bar, NULL); (In most cases, the function call overhead dominates the finding the end of string because pushing stack frames modifies memory and finding the end of a

Re: [osol-discuss] Some fun with isaexec(1) ...

2006-03-25 Thread Theo Schlossnagle
On Mar 25, 2006, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few minutes ago the issue came up in irc://irc.freenode.org/ #opensolaris why isaexec(1) does not use the isaexec(3C) function. Attached is a patch (solaris_usr_lib_isaexec_uses_isaexec_3c_function.diff.txt) which fixes the problem. *

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-25 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yann POUPET wrote: Hello, It could be interesting to improve Solaris to ask people if there are some nice (killer?) features they love on some other operating systems they'd like to see in OpenSolaris. I've read a lot of things about

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-25 Thread Erast Benson
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:35 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parallels/?branch_id=60855release_id=223137 It's not free though -- costs $50.00. OTOH there's a free trial version. Their product only supports Solaris/Guest, AFAIK. What if we will send a community