Re: Change max ttys from 8 to 12?

2023-12-28 Thread Rhialto
function > keys or already use F11 and F12 for other purposes (like DEC keyboard > has F11=ESC, so ctrl-alt-f11 invokes DDB). Sure, but most of the keyboards have 12 function keys and even if some don't, nobody is forced to try to use them. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'R

Re: ATA TRIM?

2022-12-08 Thread Rhialto
, or badly aligned? -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] ISO abd JIS for ADB (Was: two keys with same keycode on ADB)

2022-05-13 Thread Rhialto
out? The key near ENTER (but not as described between enter and backspace) is #/~. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neut

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Rhialto
else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 21:53:37 +0100, Rhialto wrote: > No, a common way to do it (as in the Dragon Book), if I recall > correctly, the address of the function combined with a stack frame > pointer. And nested functions keep a static link to the lexically > enclosing scope, or a

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Rhialto
e else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Rhialto
a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFH falu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: wsvt25 backspace key should match terminfo definition

2021-11-25 Thread Rhialto
er paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: wsvt25 backspace key should match terminfo definition

2021-11-25 Thread Rhialto
to switch everything over more or less at once.) > -RVP -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Level for Unix-domain socket options

2021-08-05 Thread Rhialto
tions work for both SOL_LOCAL and SOL_SOCKET level: compatible with both (at least some) practice and documentation. -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFHfalu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: VOP_STRATEGY for devices and pipes

2021-07-15 Thread Rhialto
o \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFH falu.nl@rhialto signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Devices.

2021-06-01 Thread Rhialto
s but it is determined by physical hardware attachment. -Olaf. -- ___ Q: "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" -- Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert \X/ A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski." -- rhialto at falu dot nl signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 9.1: boot-time delay?

2021-05-18 Thread Rhialto
achine that with an nVidia card there was a pause similar to what you described. It went away when I put in a Radeon card instead. The nVidia was also not-quite-functional, so I wanted to get rid of it anyway. -Olaf. -- ___ Q: "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" -- Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert \X

Re: Inconsistencies in usage of "locators" argument to config (*ca_rescan)() functions

2021-03-27 Thread Rhialto
are that is physically present even if is not configured into the system, but it can be used only on "self-describing" buses. The SnailBus, for instance, [ explains the SnailBus, which seems similar to PCI, and then p.15ff explains the configuration process more deeply ] > -uwe -Olaf. -- _

Re: Inconsistencies in usage of "locators" argument to config (*ca_rescan)() functions

2021-03-26 Thread Rhialto
riven" and "hardware driven", or "fixed" vs "autodetect" or something like that? -Olaf. -- ___ Q: "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" -- Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert \X/ A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski." -- rhialto at falu dot nl signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: partial failures in write(2) (and read(2))

2021-02-15 Thread Rhialto
system call with error can return with the carry set and the error and short count returned in a separate registers. The carry bit is how errors used to be indicated since at least V7 (even V6?) anyway. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting the

Re: Reparenting processes?

2021-01-11 Thread Rhialto
eemed acceptable... that we will have to guess. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reparenting processes?

2021-01-10 Thread Rhialto
that establishes the connection to the controlling terminal is called the controlling process" and "... the hang-up signal is sent to the controlling process (the session leader)"). In other words, controlling ttys are pretty strongly associated with the session leader process, which se

Re: Reparenting processes?

2021-01-10 Thread Rhialto
lls when it isn't open, or what? I think sys/kern/tty_tty.c is the implementation of /dev/tty, and it seems you get ENXIO. Also each read/write call goes to the *current* controlling tty, freshly looked up. > /~\ The ASCII Mouse -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at fa

Re: Sample boot.cfg for upgraded systems (rndseed & friends)

2020-09-25 Thread Rhialto
was shipped with would have saved me so much effort over the years :) I think it already ends up in /.sysinst/etc ? -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --D

Re: wait(2) and SIGCHLD

2020-08-22 Thread Rhialto
but nothing > new needed? My first thought was that daemon(3) does something like that already (the idea sounds familiar to me), but it does just a single fork(2) and a setsid(2). -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made P

Re: SIGCHLD and sigaction()

2020-08-18 Thread Rhialto
sed a chance. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-16 Thread Rhialto
or code editors? I have seen an editor (I think it was google's Android development environment) that even went so far as to recognize some particular boilerplate Java code fragments, and abbreviated them. You could unfold them if you wanted though. I wasn't sure if I liked that or hated it.

Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-13 Thread Rhialto
t; if's test to the enclosing if's, I can go either way on whether I'd > prefer braces or no braces around the inner if. I agree with the proposal at the start of the thread and I also agree with this. I guess that some languages have a special 'elif' or 'elseif' keyword just because of this. -Olaf. --

Re: pg_jobc going negative?

2020-07-10 Thread Rhialto
the group for terminal job control (those with a parent in a different * process group of the same session). If that count reaches zero, the * process group becomes orphaned. Check both the specified process' * process group and that of its children. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhial

Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence

2019-10-03 Thread Rhialto
On Thu 03 Oct 2019 at 10:17:47 -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > On Oct 3, 2:42pm, Rhialto wrote: > } I was thinking the other day that it might be useful if gpt had a > } subcommand to spit out a script to duplicate the partitioning of a disk, > } but without the "unique" p

Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence

2019-10-03 Thread Rhialto
in all cases using a simple script, and keep the script corresponding to each disk, so that I can use it again later. But if you didn't originally partition a disk this way, it doesn't help. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves ma

Re: panic: UBSan: Undefined Behavior in /syzkaller/managers/netbsd-kubsan/kernel/sys/kern/kern_rndq.c:LINE, negation of -ADD Reply-To:

2019-09-28 Thread Rhialto
s been there (according to cvs annotate) since 2014 with some small changes in 2015. > Martin -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams

Re: panic: UBSan: Undefined Behavior in /syzkaller/managers/netbsd-kubsan/kernel/sys/kern/kern_rndq.c:LINE, negation of -ADD Reply-To:

2019-09-27 Thread Rhialto
= delta); #ifdef RND_VERBOSE if (deltacnt++ % 1151 == 0) { rnd_printf_verbose("rnd_dv_estimate: %s x = %lld, dx = %lld, " " d2x = %lld\n", rs->name, (long long int)d->x, (long l

Re: panic: UBSan: Undefined Behavior in /syzkaller/managers/netbsd-kubsan/kernel/sys/kern/kern_rndq.c:LINE, negation of -ADD Reply-To:

2019-09-27 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 27 Sep 2019 at 15:53:47 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 27.09.2019 10:19, Rhialto wrote: > > On Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 01:15:23 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > >> Is this patch correct? > >> > >> http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00168-kern_rndq.c-av

Re: panic: UBSan: Undefined Behavior in /syzkaller/managers/netbsd-kubsan/kernel/sys/kern/kern_rndq.c:LINE, negation of -ADD

2019-09-27 Thread Rhialto
her positive results x can come from x and -x as inputs. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NCHNAMLEN vnode cache limitation removal

2019-09-13 Thread Rhialto
the deduped version from that point onwards. It would need to be tested how much that wins and loses in regards to comparison time vs. parallelism and that sort of things. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President s

Re: RFC: New userspace fetch/store API

2019-02-26 Thread Rhialto
s cheap). With this change, the return value can be stored in a register. If you take the address of the variable where you want the value to be, it can't be a register. But the error case hopefully doesn't occur often, so the error code likely doesn't even have to be stored into. > Eduardo -Olaf

Re: nvmm

2018-10-10 Thread Rhialto
ate of cloud-init is wrt NetBSD so that I can run NetBSD images in OpenStack clouds :) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- "What good is a Ring of Power \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- if you're unable...to Speak." - Agent Elrond signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-24 Thread Rhialto
ified packet filter (which needs a big tool set in the form of clang to compile C to EBPF bytecode). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed change to makesyscalls.sh

2018-08-06 Thread Rhialto
ot;wrongly-tagged" syscall. sys_nomodule() could maybe even put back sys_nosys in the table in that case, for later callers. If it is certain it can't be a module. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned

Re: 8.0 performance issue when running build.sh?

2018-08-06 Thread Rhialto
0.00 kernel_locktcp_sockaddr_wrapper+1b 0.00 1 0.00 kernel_lockudp_disconnect_wrapper+1a -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signature.asc

Re: i2c and indirect vs. direct config

2018-06-03 Thread Rhialto
y access the same bus? If the latter, the better controller can be used... -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: firefox sandboxing

2018-05-16 Thread Rhialto
D version of Docker. Although, as far as I understand Docker, you could probably get a lot of the process isolation that it needs done by writing an appropriate kauth policy? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to

Re: Attempt to fix nfs client

2018-01-20 Thread Rhialto
On Sat 20 Jan 2018 at 15:45:10 +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > TLDR: nfs_reqq crrptin, see diff below. Sounds like it might fix/improve http://gnats.netbsd.org/50432 ? That's also (likely) about nfs_reqq. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhia

Re: CPUs and processes not evenly assigned?!

2016-11-27 Thread Rhialto
-by-100 result when using 8 bits for the fraction (only 100 out of the 256 possible fractions are used). Small thing, but easy to do. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: small changes in aesxcbcmac.c

2016-09-25 Thread Rhialto
ur as before... -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

dhcpcd and routing of ipv6 prefixes

2016-06-08 Thread Rhialto
0::226:9eff:fece:8c54%re0 00:26:9e:ce:8c:54re0 23h48m9s S fe80::d63d:7eff:fe2d:6798%re0d4:3d:7e:2d:67:98re0 permanent R -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. signatu

Re: Simplify bridge(4)

2016-02-13 Thread Rhialto
denly NetBSD would change methods, and need not only NetBSD-dependent code but also NetBSD-version-dependent code. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simplify bridge(4)

2016-02-13 Thread Rhialto
have to basically make it the permanent configurtation, for the eventuality of wanting to run a VM. Please don't do it that way on NetBSD. It is stupid[1]. [1] I have a laptop set up that way, and some of the important userland tools get confused by it. That makes it even worse. -Olaf. --

Re: How to identify specific wait-state for a "DE" process?

2016-01-08 Thread Rhialto
ach: - this will use an extra fd and that is observable by the process - and the process might even close that fd if it is doing some blanket close-all-fds action. Maybe these potential issues can be avoided somehow? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for

Re: Modular raidframe

2015-12-20 Thread Rhialto
ith GENERIC and removing things from it that I don't have or need. Is there a simple way to see which of those things are also modules (so they can come back if I need them after all)? The names in /stand/modules don't always seem to match 100% with words from the config file. -Olaf. -- __

Re: Freeze with BPF BIOCSFEEDBACK

2015-12-17 Thread Rhialto
ARP replies for its IPv4 address.) I thought this ioctl was supposed to fix this limitation, but it seems something still doesn't work for me. > christos -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is t

Re: Freeze with BPF BIOCSFEEDBACK

2015-12-17 Thread Rhialto
ng things and needed to try this out. The deeper story behind it that I want to use libpcap for packet capture, so that I can remove crufty code for DLPI, PFLT, NIT (and BPF). > christos -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-

Freeze with BPF BIOCSFEEDBACK

2015-12-16 Thread Rhialto
I just had a freeze which likely was caused by BPF. This was with a distributed GERNERIC version of 7.0/amd64. I was running a PDP-10 emulator, klh10, https://github.com/Rhialto/klh10 which I configured to use BPF to communicate with the outside world. I ran my tops-20 installation, and as soon

Re: In-kernel units for block numbers, etc ...

2015-12-01 Thread Rhialto
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Re: NFS related panics and hangs

2015-11-05 Thread Rhialto
ay it should not be there. My other observations still stand, it seems, since they concern files in sys/nfs. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS related panics and hangs

2015-11-05 Thread Rhialto
:57 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > This problem is very repeatable, usually within a few hours, just now it > happened within half an hour. > > It seems to me that somehow the nfs_reqq list gets corrupted. Then > either there is a crash when traversing it in nfs_timer() (occurring in >

Re: mount_checkdirs

2015-07-08 Thread Rhialto
at the mountpoint directory, but not ones more inside. A possible reason not to handle subdirectories could have been that semantics for that are unclear. But one would have expected some note about that somewhere, given the above. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek

Re: mount_checkdirs

2015-07-08 Thread Rhialto
On Thu 09 Jul 2015 at 00:27:18 +0200, Rhialto wrote: That seems like an inconsistency that we may want to avoid due to the POLA. I may even see an escape from a chroot : 1. process gets chrooted to /altroot 2. it cds into, say, tmp 3. outside, somebody mounts a new system on top of /alroot 4

Re: bottom half

2015-06-21 Thread Rhialto
3.1, but on page 44. - the same book with FreeBSD in the title has the same Figure 3.1, also on page 51. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpLPiDZFVRHO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Groff

2015-06-05 Thread Rhialto
(just point web browser at it, and it will load stylesheet and perform XSL transformation for you). XSLT is even worse. It is an abomination. XSL is totally unsuited for writing programs. Its notation is completely unreadable and its semantics are incomprehensible. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto

Re: shipping processes between ttys

2014-12-07 Thread Rhialto
around. Or with stdin. In other words, changing the actual files that file descriptors are connected to. Possibly even plumbing a stdout and stdin together with a pipe. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too

Re: pserialize(9) vs. TAILQ

2014-11-24 Thread Rhialto
a membar_consumer between `p = *pp' and `v = *p'. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpYwaB1qt7OX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Boot wedges

2014-11-22 Thread Rhialto
). The device was not disabled (and it needs to be because it hangs the machine in question). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpW8R_AFbfBj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: msdosfs and small sectors

2014-09-10 Thread Rhialto
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 22:53:27 +0100, David Laight wrote: (and ICL system25 whcih wanted 100 byte sectors). Or IBM's CMS which used to have 800 byte sectors. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot

Re: Making tmpfs reserved memory configurable

2014-05-30 Thread Rhialto
for the system and cannot be assigned to the file system. some memory (...) are - some memory is. I'd split the lines as | Note that some memory | (by default: four megabytes) | is always reserved for the system and cannot -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X

Re: Lockless IP input queue, the pktqueue interface

2014-05-29 Thread Rhialto
that I don't understand some piece of code is that the author had a mixed up thought process. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpsr5VNMpuDW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

2014-01-25 Thread Rhialto
. http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/colon/5/misuse-of-colon/ seems to give some rules when not to use colons). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpOY8ZsGejl8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work

2013-11-22 Thread Rhialto
hope my diagram of how the pointers point was correct :-) Martin -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpXMwYpxlbd8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work

2013-11-20 Thread Rhialto
in http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Lists_and_Queues . -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpGoRV51t32L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: posix_fallocate

2013-11-17 Thread Rhialto
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Re: posix_fallocate

2013-11-17 Thread Rhialto
On Mon 18 Nov 2013 at 05:11:35 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: how does it ever know whether or not there are holes to fill? And why would it do it that way, and follow by fallocate() ? Wasn't there some (proposed? actual?) interface to find holes in files? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert

Re: proposal: some pointer and arithmetic utilities

2013-03-21 Thread Rhialto
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Temporary IPv6 addresses vs. netgroups

2013-01-20 Thread Rhialto
some socket(s), in this case those from mount, to use the normally assigned, non-random address? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.'

Porting FreeBSD drm2 driver

2013-01-12 Thread Rhialto
the card I that thought was supported properly (Radeon HD 5450-based) isn't - X claims no accelleration. I haven't tried Xv yet (needed to view video) but I fear the worst. Is anybody by any chance working on porting this FreeBSD driver to NetBSD? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor

Re: Porting FreeBSD drm2 driver

2013-01-12 Thread Rhialto
On Sat 12 Jan 2013 at 16:09:27 +, Christos Zoulas wrote: We are painfully aware of this and we are commissioning work to remedy the situation. Ah, that is great to hear. Thank you! christos -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto

Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-16 Thread Rhialto
without changing coalition. That would make yet another process grouping, confusingly (dis)similar to process groups, controlling-terminal groups, sessions, (and am I forgetting more perhaps?) Dave -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto

Re: multiple vnodes for same file?

2012-07-09 Thread Rhialto
. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: Question about tcp ephemeral ports

2012-01-30 Thread Rhialto
On Mon 30 Jan 2012 at 15:39:50 +0100, Olivier MATZ wrote: I would like to have some expert opinions about this behaviour. Is there a workaround? Look into using the socket option SO_REUSEADDR. Regards, Olivier -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you

Re: RFC: New bus_space routine: bus_space_sync

2012-01-20 Thread Rhialto
to add that extra memory as extra swap, or something like that? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: PUFFS and existing file that get ENOENT

2012-01-16 Thread Rhialto
. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: Lost file-system story

2011-12-11 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 09 Dec 2011 at 17:40:29 -0500, Donald Allen wrote: If I can find the time, I'll do that. Even a little shell script would do: #!/bin/sh while sleep 30; do sync; done -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't

Re: Some kernel void functions do return a value

2011-10-18 Thread Rhialto
with 0 elements, which wasn't allowed at the time, but which were often used for open-ended structs) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: A simple cpufreq(9)

2011-09-29 Thread Rhialto
/Projects/PDP-10/ . Unfinished, unfortunately. /~\ The ASCII Mouse -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: pty(4) 1024 bytes buffer limit

2011-09-09 Thread Rhialto
if there isn't a pty in there somewhere too. /~\ The ASCII Mouse -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: pty(4) 1024 bytes buffer limit

2011-09-08 Thread Rhialto
inside screen in an xterm, but the limit equally applies if I paste into a wc from stdin directly in an xterm (so screen and vim are not to blame). I'm pretty sure also that in the past there was no such limit, or at least it was much higher. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's

Re: Addition to kauth(9) framework

2011-08-29 Thread Rhialto
it so) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs

2011-08-09 Thread Rhialto
as present of course). In the mean time, a program which may have created the file and remembered its name, may still access it past the expiration date if it is lucky (i.e., nobody looked - a quantum file system where observation changes the files). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's

Re: Adding linux_link(2) system call, second round

2011-08-02 Thread Rhialto
renameat symlinkat unlinkat -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: Adding linux_link(2) system call, second round

2011-08-01 Thread Rhialto
olafs vb 3 Aug 1 12:25 baz@ - foo I tested both on ffs and zfs. The results are the same. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: link(2) on a symlink to a directory fails

2011-07-29 Thread Rhialto
to recall vaguely that this was changed in the last few years. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: Dutch keymap not imported into NetBSD :p

2011-07-22 Thread Rhialto
typewriter had those). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor

Re: ioctl(2) vs sys/ioctl.h

2010-12-19 Thread Rhialto
be defined as ((void *)1234) (for appropriate values of 1234). However, we don't have streams, so no streams ioctls, which makes the point moot, at least for the given example. David -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl

Re: 16 year old bug

2010-09-02 Thread Rhialto
. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor