Semaphores

2008-01-03 Thread Neeku Shamekhi
I need some article about semaphores in freeBSD and mainly about kern_sema.c file. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Semaphores

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Neeku Shamekhi wrote: I need some article about semaphores in freeBSD and mainly about kern_sema.c file. About the best documentation you will find is this: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/kern/kern_sema.c For general information on the FreeBSD kernel see the book Design and implementation of

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: there is an undocumented option: boot-nfsroot-options that the diskeless boot can use. I tried boot-nfsroot-options = nfsv3 since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least one problem: removing

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-03 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: there is an undocumented option: boot-nfsroot-options that the diskeless boot can use. I tried boot-nfsroot-options = nfsv3 since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: there is an undocumented option: boot-nfsroot-options that the diskeless boot can use. I tried boot-nfsroot-options = nfsv3 since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least

Re: Disk sync at shutdown and fusefs filesystems

2008-01-03 Thread Csaba Henk
On 2007-12-17, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the implementation is ready, and if these problems are sorted out, do you think it could be enabled by default (at least for root)? Because that's the behavior most filesystems would prefer I think. I made up a testable

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor for the

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using

Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I post my question in this list cause Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suggested that here I could find more help. I have an application written in C + Gtk + Glib that gathers information from procfs under Linux. Now, I'm trying to port this application to FreeBSD (I'm working with 7.0

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:26:21PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: Hi all, I post my question in this list cause Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suggested that here I could find more help. I have an application written in C + Gtk + Glib that gathers information from procfs under Linux.

Re: Semaphores

2008-01-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Neeku Shamekhi wrote: I need some article about semaphores in freeBSD and mainly about kern_sema.c file. man 9 sema ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

select

2008-01-03 Thread Metin KAYA
Hi all, How select(2) will behave if I give the utimeout parameter as NULL? -- Metin KAYA EnderUNIX Software Developer Endersys Software Engineer http://www.EnderUNIX.org/metinhttp://www.Endersys.com/

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Metin KAYA wrote: Hi all, How select(2) will behave if I give the utimeout parameter as NULL? -- Metin KAYA EnderUNIX Software Developer Endersys Software Engineer http://www.EnderUNIX.org/metin

Re[2]: select

2008-01-03 Thread Metin KAYA
Thank you a lot for your good answer. Please read my other mail. I'm asking a question in man page. Metin KAYA wrote: Hi all, How select(2) will behave if I give the utimeout parameter as NULL? -- Metin KAYA EnderUNIX

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Metin KAYA wrote: Yes Rick, I'm asking this indefinitely issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave? On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote: How select(2) will behave

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote: How select(2) will behave if I give the utimeout parameter as NULL? According to the man page: If timeout is not a null pointer, it specifies the maximum interval to wait for the selection to complete. System activity

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an application written in C + Gtk + Glib that gathers information from procfs under Linux. Now, I'm trying to port this application to FreeBSD (I'm working with 7.0 RC1). man linprocfs DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Metin KAYA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes Rick, I'm asking this indefinitely issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave? Please don't top-post. Like most other system calls that block indefinitely, select(2) will be interrupted

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 03), Metin KAYA said: Hi all, How select(2) will behave if I give the utimeout parameter as NULL? From the man page: If timeout is a null pointer, the select blocks indefinitely. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=select -- Dan Nelson

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Jan 3, 2008 8:50 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an application written in C + Gtk + Glib that gathers information from procfs under Linux. Now, I'm trying to port this application to FreeBSD (I'm working with 7.0

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Metin KAYA wrote: Yes Rick, I'm asking this indefinitely issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave? On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote: How select(2) will behave

Re: select

2008-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Metin KAYA wrote: Yes Rick, I'm asking this indefinitely issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave? On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote: How select(2) will behave if I give the

Re[2]: select

2008-01-03 Thread Metin KAYA
Metin KAYA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes Rick, I'm asking this indefinitely issue. Is there anything that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or FreeBSD behave? Please don't top-post. Like most other system calls that block indefinitely, select(2) will be

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Maybe a mix of both could be good: use the linxprocfs when it is almost straightforward (in fact I could run the app, just changing few lines) and sysctl when the linprocfs doesn't provide the information that I need. Also, linprocfs is never mounted by default -

Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Jan 3, 2008 9:53 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Maybe a mix of both could be good: use the linxprocfs when it is almost straightforward (in fact I could run the app, just changing few lines) and sysctl when the linprocfs doesn't provide the

mksnap_ffs time

2008-01-03 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
Hi Hackers, I'm running a 6.2-RELEASE server with a /home partition that's used to backup a customer's data. The backups are being made during the night. Since a couple of weeks I'm running mksnap_ffs daily to create filesystem snapshots of the data. I've been logging the time it takes

Re: mksnap_ffs time

2008-01-03 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Friday 04 January 2008 00:30:20 you wrote: Hi! 1) Is anyone else seeing this? As far as I know, this is somehow related to the SoftUpdates, but I am not 100% sure. Look at the mailinglist archives, there was a discussion a few months ago about the same topic as far as I remember.

Re: mksnap_ffs time

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
On 01/03/08 17:46, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 00:30:20 you wrote: Hi! 1) Is anyone else seeing this? As far as I know, this is somehow related to the SoftUpdates, but I am not 100% sure. Look at the mailinglist archives, there was a discussion a few months ago