Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. > > In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to > cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be > involved in receiving donations to cover project electri

Sysctl(3) man page

2012-03-09 Thread Donald Allen
OpenBSD's pride in its man pages is justified, for the most part. But having recently decided to come back to OpenBSD after a long hiatus, I found myself completely baffled by how to get battery status information via sysctl(3). I use suckless.org's dwm and there's a little chunk of C called dwmsta

Re: Sysctl(3) man page

2012-03-09 Thread Donald Allen
Jason McIntyre: hi donald. i'm not sure i exactly know what you want to do, but if i run your program it gives me (almost) identical output to that given by running "systat sensors" or "sysctl hw.sensors". i guess that takes care of the idea of providing find-sensor-mibs in userland, or making wha

Re: Sysctl(3) man page

2012-03-09 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012, Donald Allen wrote: >> OpenBSD's pride in its man pages is justified, for the most part. But >> having recently decided to come back to OpenBSD after a long hiatus, I >> found myself comple

UBC?

2010-01-29 Thread Donald Allen
Any developers care to comment on the state of the unified buffer cache? I did some searching and turned up threads here and there in the mail archives. It looks like an attempt was made to add it around 8 years ago, some bad things happened, and the change got backed out. Looking at the code, it l

Re: UBC?

2010-01-29 Thread Donald Allen
er matter. At this point, I don't have a particular concern about mmap coherence. /Don > > > 2010/1/29 Bret S. Lambert : >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:17:07AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >>> Any developers care to comment on the state of the unified buffer >>> cache

Re: UBC?

2010-01-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >> In short, yes and no. >> >> Before you can get a coherent answer to your question, I will ask you "why". >> >> I.E. What are you looking for fro

Re: UBC?

2010-02-01 Thread Donald Allen
I have not responded to this thread because I was angered by it and did not want to respond in anger. That has passed. But this thread is unfortunately all too typical of a pattern of ridicule and downright nastiness that occurs much too often on the OpenBSD lists. It's unfortunate that you do this