Re: two make questions

2002-09-24 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 13:08:04 -0400: On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: Now, saying don't do it is nice, but I'd like to know why. Why doesn't this work? Also, what documentation (besides the source) is there that covers variable scopes? See the second

What does this log mean (SCSI problem ?)

2002-09-24 Thread Angelin Lazarov Lalev
I think I have a problem. From time to tme, apparently when the disk activity of my IBM SCSI disk becomes higher, all disk operations are suspended for about 30 seconds. After that all continues ok, but the following log messages are written to the syslog. Is that normal? Sep 18 16:39:53 ns1

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
I have noticed that it is not uncommon for a multithreaded program that invokes a lot of system calls to get EINTR from a syscall even if no non-default signal handling is installed and no 'real' signals are received. Looks like some syscalls get interrupted by the scheduling signal. In my

3.5GB memory limit?

2002-09-24 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, im confused: bios says 4096 MB FreeBSD says: real memory = 3824680960 (3735040K bytes) btw, windows 2k also. the S2466 Tiger MPX manual says: * The AMD-760 MPX requieres a portion of memory to be reserved for PCI devices ...

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
Maxim, thanks a lot. I've also filed a PR for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=standards/43335 On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:11:45 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andriy Gapon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
Hi Thomas, On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:31:59AM +0200, tho wrote: hi Paul, have you considered using a file descriptor passing based technique (section 14.7 of Stevens' UNPv1) ? you may have a process with suser privs which creates file descriptors (e.g. socket bind()ed to a particular

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Andriy Gapon wrote: I have noticed that it is not uncommon for a multithreaded program that invokes a lot of system calls to get EINTR from a syscall even if no non-default signal handling is installed and no 'real' signals are received. Looks like some syscalls get interrupted by the

Re: 3.5GB memory limit?

2002-09-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Danny Braniss wrote: the Addendum says: * AMD chipset architecture requieres memory above 3.5GB to be reserved for PCI devices. We have a winner. Q1: is this AMD specific, or also true for P3/P4? It's chipset, not CPU specific. Your question is like

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote: I have noticed that it is not uncommon for a multithreaded program that invokes a lot of system calls to get EINTR from a syscall even if no non-default signal handling is installed and no 'real' signals are received. Looks

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel Eischen wrote: Set SA_RESTART in the sa_flags of the sigaction for the scheduling signal. Use man sigaction for details. Yes, for application installed signal handlers. Try this for library installed signal handlers (patch to -current).

Re: What does this log mean (SCSI problem ?)

2002-09-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Angelin Lazarov Lalev wrote: I think I have a problem. From time to tme, apparently when the disk activity of my IBM SCSI disk becomes higher, all disk operations are suspended for about 30 seconds. After that all continues ok, but the following log messages are written

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Daniel Eischen wrote: Set SA_RESTART in the sa_flags of the sigaction for the scheduling signal. Use man sigaction for details. Yes, for application installed signal handlers. Try this for library installed signal handlers (patch to

Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Paolo Pisati
Hi guys, as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some way the FreeBSD group. Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Maxime Henrion
Paolo Pisati wrote: Hi guys, as I said in the subject i'm a newbies of the kernel, but i used FreeBSD for years, so when the time to write my final thesis in my university arrived i immediately thought to help in some way the FreeBSD group. Here there's a mini list of things i would

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me which one is available and fell free to add any other project you think could help the FreeBSD community in general. -a fs with journaling: some times ago, i

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: Here there's a mini list of things i would like to work on, tell me which one is available and fell free to add any other project you think could help the FreeBSD community in

Re: libc_r in stable

2002-09-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Daniel Eischen wrote: Try this for library installed signal handlers (patch to -current). http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/libc_r.diffs really nice and simple, thanks a lot! Btw, did you have a chance to look at my patch for write()/execve() ? -- Andriy Gapon

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I still wish somebody would do a bproc port for freebsd (see http://www.clustermatic.org) or get freebsd loadable from linuxbios (http://www.linuxbios.org). We load plan 9 and WinCE, so how much does freebsd need? ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

mbuf chain

2002-09-24 Thread Prafulla Deuskar
All, Is there a pre-set limit on maximum number of fragments in a mbuf chain ? Thanks, Prafulla To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST at very end of CD

2002-09-24 Thread Sean Hamilton
Greetings, I'm creating ISO images of CDs as advised by the handbook, like so: # dd if=/dev/acd0c of=blah.iso bs=2k At the very end of many CDs, dd states acd0: Input/output error and the kernel says: acd0: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 error=0x04 The .iso seems okay (I can

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-24 Thread David P. Reese Jr.
On Mon, 23 Sep, 2002, Lamont Granquist wrote: Maybe just replace all suser(9) uses with MAC credential checks, and install MAC_UNIX by default, which would be set up to behave like ye olden UNIX... Who knows. Something like that sounds like a really good idea. I'd like to see this not only

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-24 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2002-09-24 10:57 +, Maxime Henrion wrote: [snip] -kgi: is it dead or what? No idea :-). I believe Nicolas Souchu is still working on it. Last I heard he outlined an integration plan/roadmap deal, I'm not sure what's been happening since then. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe:

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-24 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
You can get a somewhat similar effect right now (that is, root being not permitted to mess with your files) by using cfs. Ok, true, root can still destroy your files by using the underlying real file system, but he can't view or manipulate them in their plaintext form. I must say that when

Re: Which archiver handles the ICE format?

2002-09-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 23), Stephen Hocking said: I'm wanting to extract data files off the original Quake 1 CD. Lets just take a look see... All deice does is join the numbered files together, then execute the result. quake101.1 and quake101.2 are in

Re: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST at very end of CD

2002-09-24 Thread Robert Watson
Yeah, it's odd actually. I burnt myself a CD this morning using my Mac OS X box, and it appeared to be fine on an older -CURRENT box and on the Mac. Stuck it in my far-more-recent -CURRENT box and it died horribly. Or at least, it gave the same error you're reporting. I'm going to try to track