[request-sponsor] three requests back on the 'awaiting sponsor' list

2010-01-15 Thread James Carlson
Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM, James Carlson > wrote: >> Won't these things still be issues for third-party packages? > > Third-party? Doubtful that they would use package names as long as > SUNWstaroffice-gnome-integration. Good point. Giv

[request-sponsor] three requests back on the 'awaiting sponsor' list

2010-01-15 Thread James Carlson
x27;m thinking it's best to drop these. > Won't these things still be issues for third-party packages? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

[request-sponsor] I'd like to participate in opensolaris development

2009-03-04 Thread James Carlson
on the project team using the mailing list for that project, ask where you can help (if it isn't already obvious), and then contribute. For most projects, the source is accessible via Mercurial or SVN, and once you're part of the project team, you can change it yourself. There is no step 2.

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR #6807179 ("ksh93 does unneccesary |libc::getpwnam()| lookups for ~(modifer)pattern patterns")

2009-02-25 Thread James Carlson
ing to use my > workspace to do the putback :-) OK; looks better. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR #6807179 ("ksh93 does unneccesary |libc::getpwnam()| lookups for ~(modifer)pattern patterns")

2009-02-25 Thread James Carlson
he webrev out of date or does the CR differ for some other reason? The webrev doesn't include the CR in the comments. Have you done 'hg commit'? Minor nit: changes to ERRATA.txt contain many spelling errata. ;-} -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsyste

[request-sponsor] sponsor intern and sponsoring request

2009-02-18 Thread James Carlson
in.dhcpd purges own offer if two interfaces connect to the same network" > contributed by the community member - 'Nils Goroll'. > > thanks > ~Girish. > > PS: How do I find the email address of Nils Goroll to communicate with him? One way would be to ask your

[request-sponsor] sponsor needed for the convmv utility integration

2008-12-16 Thread James Carlson
y/arc/ And the short answer is to find an ARC member or intern that you know and ask privately for help with your fast-track. (I can probably do that if you want, but I think the best candidate in this particular case would be ienup.sung at sun.com -- a PSARC intern with lots of i18n exper

[request-sponsor] Dual boot OpenSolaris, Ubuntu and FreeBSD impossible

2008-10-01 Thread James Carlson
his: /usr/sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 ... though if you ever have to do that, that might be worthy of a bug. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 /

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

2008-02-01 Thread James Carlson
Pete Bentley writes: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:07:09AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: > > Let's also take the whole "sponsor" question away, as that is a > > temporary issue that's being fixed. > > Sorry to sidetrack what is a very useful thread, b

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

2008-02-01 Thread James Carlson
grip. If the community group itself doesn't agree with Bob, he should certainly do some soul-searching. If he still feels he's right and the rest of the world is wrong, the OGB would be the natural next step for such a conflict, but I'd hope that path would never be used, an

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

2008-01-31 Thread James Carlson
to reflect that: > > > OpenSolaris: request-sponsor > <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=27> > > Use this list to request and obtain a sponsor for your contributions. > Once you have sponsor, please use a separate, community-specific

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

2008-01-31 Thread James Carlson
When you're ready for review, just "scp -r" that webrev directory out to some web site (such as cr.opensolaris.org). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

2008-01-31 Thread James Carlson
be greatly preferred, and if we can gently guide them there when they mistakenly post changes here, that'd be good. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Fix for bug-6440628

2008-01-29 Thread James Carlson
fopen. Are you sure you wanted to open the file at all? Don't expect your code reviewers or sponsor or random contributors on request-sponsor to make your code compile or fix the design. Please make it right _first_, and then seek a review. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[request-sponsor] Could someone please provide hints for bugids: 4432948 , 4829659 , 5075505

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
archive from remote tape [Accepted state, priority 3, RFE] Of those, I'd imagine that the first two would be of importance to someone looking at CR 4496994, and probably pretty easy to reproduce. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

[request-sponsor] Bug ID 6614951 and 6614275

2007-12-18 Thread James Carlson
option' issue) has no RE, so it should be free for adoption. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] [6236983] request sponsor

2007-12-13 Thread James Carlson
ashwin writes: > I Would like to work on this bug # 6236983 if i am allowed to ( An > Engineer is assigned) .Requesting sponsor for the same. > My SCA number is OS01444 The bug has an assigned engineer (RE) who is working on it, and has a fix in code review now. -- James Carlson

[request-sponsor] Request 6623019

2007-10-31 Thread James Carlson
s is sun.com ... why do you need in internal sponsor ... ?) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] [tools-compilers] Bug ID 6515400 and gccfss?

2007-10-31 Thread James Carlson
e architecture of the system or some significant component. I don't see any architecture here to be reviewed, so the only approval I'd think would be necessary would be the RTI (requiring design and code review, as needed). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems

[request-sponsor] 6518130: pfiles(1) should list the processes listening on each socket

2007-10-08 Thread James Carlson
ot; for pgrep, and that'd be confusing for a ptools utility. Instead, use "-l" if you need this feature. If we had a "verbose" option, I think I'd prefer to see verbose details about the socket that's held open, rather than details about the process. - Nit: I'd prefer to see lower-case command line option letters rather than upper-case, when possible. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-06 Thread James Carlson
James Carlson writes: > Frank Van Der Linden writes: > > Matty wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > Most Linux and BSD distributions ship with a version of dd that > > > displays the status of a copy operation when a SIGUSR1 signal is > > > receiv

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-06 Thread James Carlson
game, and I don't want to > prolong the discussion much, since this isn't the right list, but: *BSD > uses SIGINFO, which is generated via the tty code when the user presses > ^T. Several tools implement a status handler that uses SIGINFO. CR 6310532, now celebrating its

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-05 Thread James Carlson
as well. That can't be done. Either start provably from scratch or use software under a compatible license. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] request sponsor for 6518038: cron & crontabshould support multiple timezones

2007-02-14 Thread James Carlson
and may not be portable to other operating systems that support only those standards. Crontab(4) files that are in compliance with those standards will always work properly on a Solaris system. In other words, just as it is with adding (say) /opt/csw/bin to your $PATH, it

[request-sponsor] request sponsor for 6518038: cron & crontabshould support multiple timezones

2007-02-13 Thread James Carlson
er. The latter is just a helpful side-effect of the proposed feature. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-10-30 Thread James Carlson
to return a failure ...) For zones, why would I want to choose between allowing zones to operate more quickly (by removing this privilege) and allowing zone users to save their work during thunderstorms? I'm not sure I know how a customer should make such a decision. -- James Carlson

[request-sponsor] Re: sponsor request for CR6482159

2006-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Gavin Maltby writes: > On 10/26/06 15:25, James Carlson wrote: > > > (For what it's worth, we have no way to reject bugs.) > > Can I log an rfe for one :-) It leads to an amusing paradox ... -- James Carlson, KISS Network Sun Microsystems / 1 Networ

[request-sponsor] Re: sponsor request for CR6482159

2006-10-26 Thread James Carlson
x27;s still in Dispatched state with 'opensolaris' and 'request-sponsor' keywords set. (For what it's worth, we have no way to reject bugs.) -- James Carlson, KISS Network Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] 6428818, 6428831: Reduce log noise in nighly builds without -N

2006-05-23 Thread James Carlson
iles in non-Teamware tree I'll sponsor these changes. -- James Carlson, KISS Network Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

2006-05-02 Thread James Carlson
Thanks! That's the key piece I was missing. In that case, I suspect that closefrom() won't fix the problem, as the socket() call will return a descriptor that's above the limit and run into the problem again. -- James Carlson, KISS Network Sun Microsystems /

[request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

2006-05-02 Thread James Carlson
Jonathan Adams writes: > Couldn't you just start main() with: > > closefrom(3); > > to close any extra file descriptors? Yes, that'd be much better. -- James Carlson, KISS Network Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 7

[request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

2006-05-02 Thread James Carlson
f ((c = select(16, &ibits, &obits, &xbits, > + if ((c = select(net + 1, &ibits, &obits, &xbits, But the bigger question is why this is needed. It'd have to be some situation in which telnet was exec'd with the first 16 descriptors already open. Doe

[request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-06 Thread James Carlson
who must verify the contents of a release, not the engineers. The "integrated" state is what I think test folks should rely on to determine the content of a build. The "fix in progress" state in bugster can only be set once you have a target _build_. Most people in ON se