Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Costello
://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=lang_enie=UTF-8selm=xzp7kchblor.fsf_flood.ping.uio.no%40ns.sol.net A workaround for this problem in the meantime would be to use find directory -type f | xargs grep EXPR Just FYI. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Project

Re: Request for info from SiS chipset owners

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
:3:0: class=0x02 card=0x0a141019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 ed0@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x802910ec chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 none0@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x03001039 chip=0x03001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 -- Chris Costello[EMAIL

Re: Anyone like obscure stdio problems?

2002-12-29 Thread Chris Costello
/ 2), SEEK_SET) != 0) err(1, fseek on rp); (void)fgetln(rp, throwaway); fgetln() will set __SMOD for rp's buffer and so stdio is forced to discard it and refill it from the file (which contains the B's). -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))

2002-07-21 Thread Chris Costello
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Re: chowning problem or somthing...

2002-03-12 Thread Chris Costello
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Re: Assembler programmer needed

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Costello
offers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Followups to this thread should be sent to that list. -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| You depend too much on computers for information. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD.org SIte

2002-01-20 Thread Chris Costello
helping. :) -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Computer and car salesmen differ in that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the latter know when they are lying. | +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: jail.c.patch (allowing to use hostnames when invoking jail(8))

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Costello
!). -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| It is easier to change the specification | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to fit the program than vice versa. | +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: head(1) speedup

2001-11-02 Thread Chris Costello
N times into a separate buffer (also from the read buffer). -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| ...now touch these wires to your tongue! | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report

2001-10-17 Thread Chris Costello
-- and remember, the deadline's coming up in just two days! -- +---++ | Chris Costello| That does not compute. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
, as it seems very few people actually use it.) -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| Aibohphobia:| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The fear of palindromes | +---+-+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question about pthread

2001-10-03 Thread Chris Costello
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Re: Question about pthread

2001-10-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: Because you're passing the _address_ of `confd', not the Er, sorry, `connfd' _is_ the address to a value (it's a pointer). But you're still passing an address, and I believe what I posted will solve the problem

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
the patch you attached to this message; when I can merge some of the latest changes, I'll have a diff at least to KSE_PRE_MILESTONE_2. Give me more time and I'll have a diff to HEAD. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Performance is easier

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
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Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
(this is all setugidsafety() and its hackish is_unsafe() companion are used for as far as I can tell). -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Let the machine do the dirty work. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Elements of Programming Style

Re: tiny patch to pkg_add

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Save energy: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Drive a smaller shell. | +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
? -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Why do we want intelligent terminals | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when there are so many stupid users? | +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
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Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, September 07, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: But is it necessary that you really use those defines? The idea is not to use them globally. Perhaps getnewvnode() should get the string from `mp-mnt_stat.f_mntfromname', instead

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
to not distinguishing different types of file systems from one another in pathnames? And are you suggesting that we add network overhead (I'd still imagine lo0 can't help speeding things up...) to file system accesses? -- +---+-+ | Chris

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, August 31, 2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: Check out ftpfs in the HURD. That might be a better way to do it. No, I think that we're better off with NFS... -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Help support helpless victims

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| All the simple programs have been | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | written, and all the good names taken. | +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Chris Costello
. Why does this need to be implemented in a separate executable? -- +---++ | Chris Costello| God didn't create the world in 7 days. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He pulled an all-nighter on the 6th

Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids...

2001-08-17 Thread Chris Costello
. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Wasting time is an important part of life. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

For review: Patch to ps(1) old-style option parsing.

2001-08-15 Thread Chris Costello
is that the function ps.c:kludge_oldps_options() capitalizes any 't' at the end of the option string, regardless of whether it's a flag or an option argument. The patch attached to this message should fix the problem. -- +---++ | Chris

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
it in www, actually. Do you mean formatted using DocBook, or just HTML? -- +---++ | Chris Costello| All new: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The software is not compatible with previous

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
thing for the same reasons. -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| Advanced design:| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Upper management doesn't understand

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
stack pointers and the like in thread-specific data structures. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| A bug in the code is worth two | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in the documentation

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Costello
an opinion on this? I'm thinking perhaps it should be made into part of the doc project. I'm in the middle of converting it into a DocBook article and will post a URL to it soon. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Where the system is concerned

Re: FreeBSD

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Costello
. To get FreeBSD sent to you, please order it from http://www.FreeBSDMall.com/. Thanks. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Anybody can win, | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | unless there happens to be a second entry

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
es finding a root utility that writes to /tmp have to do with umasking a file? (I've found it rather difficult to umask files in the past.) -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| I just found the last bug. | | [EMAIL

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
anything about it in a good while. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| I do not fear computers. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Costello
as you or your programs are concerned, but the implementation (as opposed to interface) is a bit of a hack. -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| CCITT - Can't Conceive Intelligent Thoughts Today | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
the FreeBSD 'emergency CD' uses--however, the FreeBSD emergency CD mounts an MFS partition for you, instead. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this works out perfectly for you, for whatever reason you need such a setup. -- +---++ | Chris Costello

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
techniques could be used for booting off of cdrom. I'm assuming that there's some data he wants to permenantly store on a disk. But yes, just like the live FS CDROM, MFS can easily be used. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| If the code

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Costello
/bin/sh needs. Should somebody make this into a port, that's one less dependancy. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Herblock's Law: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it is good, they will stop making

Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, December 22, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your attention. Next month I'm giving a talk about the evils of SSH. If you don't know anything about it, why do you claim it's evil? -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| I

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
() does nothing when it gets a NULL argument. The other two are just extra clutter. -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| This system will self-destruct in five minutes. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
. (malloc and free come to mind, obviously.) -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Don't stop at one bug. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
ifree(ptr); . . . That's how it's worked since before FreeBSD came into being. It wasn't implemented the same, but it behaved the same. -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| All the simple programs have been | | [EMAIL

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
(). -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| Backups? We doan *NEED* no | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | steenking baX%^~,VbKxNO CARRIER | +---+-+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: thr_sleep() and thr_wakeup()

2000-12-01 Thread Chris Costello
threads and AIO, neither of which use this facility. Comments? Agreed. Also, this is UNIX International thread namespace (thr_*). -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Your e-mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage

Re: Problems with pthread

2000-10-19 Thread Chris Costello
received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x280747b8 in pth_cancel_point () from /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.13 (gdb) This is GNU Pth, not FreeBSD pthreads. Use the ``-pthread'' cc(1) switch to link to the FreeBSD threads library. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Design

Re: We need your old laptop for a committer...

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Costello
, however, is that Poul-Henning Kamp has made a structured, formal, properly punctuated request, for somebody who has already _given_ time and effort to the FreeBSD Project. You're just making randomly capitalize complaints because you want a free laptop. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Those

Re: find /proc

2000-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
On Thursday, October 05, 2000, void wrote: Why does find(1) operate non-recursively in /proc? Because the procfs_readdir() code does not report directories as the correct type (DT_REG as opposed to the proper DT_DIR). -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |TRAPEZOID - A device for catching

Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Costello
org/~chris/fdesc-dtype.patch, Documentation for it is available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ all in one page: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/article.html |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Press [ESC] to detonate or any other key

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
someone else reading it and wanting to unsubscribe won't make the same mistake. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Costello
for that type of downgrade. If the software you need to use externally calls nonstandard C library functions consider porting the library and linking it manually, or fixing the software: cc -o my-hurd-program -nostdlib -lglibc ... or something along those lines. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2 inetd's with 2 nics

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
corresponds to the jail(8) environment. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham

Re: limit processes that a user can 'see'

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
of the main system, including root's processes, just use jail. This sets up more or less a 'virtual machine' you can use to effectively act as another running FreeBSD system. ``man 8 jail''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |How do I set my Laser printer to "

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Costello
/dev/null -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Use free-form input where possible. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Costello
, this will only hide warnings caused by not including stdlib.h. malloc(3) returns void * and does not need to be cast. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Last one out, turn off the computer! ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Costello
: ra-sum.c:386: cast specifies array type *** Error code 1 Try this: u_int32_t *tcphash_haddr; tcphash_addr = malloc(sizeof(*tcphash_addr) * 256); You shouldn't be casting malloc and I don't see any reason to use *(foo[nmemb]) syntax. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Howto profile my code?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
e analysis program gprof. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |There are always at least two ways to program the same thing. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
^sem''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Printed on 100% recyclable phosphor. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-28 Thread Chris Costello
of execution for a given 'userland process' can be running simulataneously (virtually on a UP, and realistically on a MP). I thought he had seen the term 'kernel threads' in the context of FreeBSD before, likely in the context of kthread_create() in the kernel. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Costello
captures the state of the last-killed-thread (or process or whatever you want to call it. LinuxThreads seems like just a big hack...). LinuxThreads on FreeBSD cannot be kernel threads because that would require modifications to our scheduler which simply have not been made. -- |Chris Costello

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Chris Costello
. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills |to be a software engineer. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Costello
this, my advance suggestion is that you differentiate between data and audio CDROM. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Swap read error. You lose your mind. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-16 Thread Chris Costello
, but I'd like to add that it should probably integrate the fdesc code. Especially since I'm working on (and am soon going to hopefully commit) code to do more relatively major repairs to fdesc[1]. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[1] Removing all references to DTYPE_* macros

Re: dev to name

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Fox Anderson wrote: Hi. How can i find out the name of device file by device major/minor? The devtoname() function. ``man devtoname'' -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To define recursion, we must first define recursion

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Costello
) functions that perform one task. Setting a tab width to something other than 8 would tend to break formatting for people with normal editors. Just try viewing bsd.port.mk in vi with default settings and not seeing clutter. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Random access is the optimum

Re: struct proc

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Costello
process. You should be using p for the process that called my_syscall. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |It wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. - Wilkes, 1949 `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Korn shell STDOUT

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, June 20, 2000, gerald stoller wrote: Anybody know how I can easily change the STDOUT to be unbuffered? Using setbuf(3). (``man setbuf'') -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Costello
) attempts to load a module for the file system, if one exists. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Debugger: A tool that substitutes afterthought for forethought. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, May 15, 2000, James Howard wrote: How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? I agree that this would be a good idea. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Performance proven

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
. At least that's what the source code tells me. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |I smell a wumpus. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
referred occurs in some interesting code in uthread_kern.c, though. _thread_sys_read() is the real read(2) syscall. They're renamed to ``_thread_sys_SYSCALL()'' for the purpose of reimplementing them in a thread-friendly manner, as you see with read() there. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFC: Patches for mounting fdesc on /dev/fd and general cleanup

2000-04-21 Thread Chris Costello
and incorrect cloning. I'm looking for some review and feedback on this. Thanks. Documentation: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ The patch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc.patch -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Make input easy to proofread

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
, that on all Bourne shells and derivatives that you can do: export var=foo However, on all _POSIX_ shells, ``export var=foo'' is valid, if I remember correctly. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Dreamweaver 2

2000-03-25 Thread Chris Costello
for generating cracks, passwords and so on Where did you get this address as a place to get cracks for Windows software? This mailing list is for general FreeBSD technical discussion. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken

Re: Where is pci_intr_establish() _thread_sys_read()?

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
of syscalls are reimplemented within libc_r for reasons that are kind of obvious (directly calling the read syscall from one thread would block all the other threads in a process). So _thread_sys_open() == open(2), _thread_sys_read() == read(2), etc. I don't know about pci_intr_establish. -- |Chris

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
get an error or nothing if it's ksh88. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Know Thy User. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-21 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, February 21, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: You're one of those people who follows instructions, are you? You're one of those people who out words, aren't you? :) -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Design simplicity: It was developed on a shoe-string budget

Re: ls: alpha - numeric sorting

2000-02-10 Thread Chris Costello
). FreeBSD already supports an `-n' option, so you probably don't want to go with that. Probably if it does go in, both systems should use -N or something else unused, if only for consistancy amongst the two. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Host System Not Responding, Probably Down. Do

Re: DreamWeaver Crack 3.0

2000-01-30 Thread Chris Costello
programming on FreeBSD and for FreeBSD, and I'd imagine linux-admin is for discussing administration on Linux systems. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A list is only as strong as its weakest link. - Don Knuth `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured that they had the obvious meaning. :-) BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |I'm sorry my Karma ran over your Dogma

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Costello
with the FreeBSD operating system? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Software is mind work. Having the right frame of mind is essential. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Anybody know if there is any way to make ports use different workdir?

1999-12-18 Thread Chris Costello
. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Upper -Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
have a typeset command. To convert something to all upper-case is surprisingly easy: typeset -u variable Example: $ typeset -u f $ f=abc $ echo $f ABC -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

Re: Upper -Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999, Alex wrote: I need in my shell script change upper case to lower case for characters. Cureently , I call c programm from script which do it. Is anybody did this inside script? Oops. That should be typeset -l. $ typeset -l var $ var=ABC $ echo $var abc -- |Chris

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? Add a statement like printf("somefunc() being called!\n"); to the top of the function you want to 'measure'. -- |Chri

Re: incoming directory on freebsd.org

1999-12-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: I have a patch to FreeBSD but I am not sure where to upload this file. Can someone point me to the directory? Use send-pr and include it there. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it was easy, the hardware people would take care

Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Wait... vmware for linux works under FreeBSD now??? or it just runs freebsd??? It runs on FreeBSD. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |What do computer engineers use for birth control? Their personalities

Re: A file with holes - a bug?

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Costello
/write syscalls. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question.

1999-10-31 Thread Chris Costello
statement for "SIOCSIFMAC" (probably to be renamed) to net/if.c and dev/ed/if_ed.c (which is the card I'm using) as well as net/if_ethersubr.c. Are there any other files that need to know about the ioctl or am I going about this the wrong way entirely? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |This B

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Costello
od without an object. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: module names

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Costello
under? I also disagree with your usage of ``emu_''. I would prefer ``compat_''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
the program. Thanks. Chad -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Unquoted mail (was: aio_read kills machine)

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
MTA between him and me (his mail server, calldei.com's mail server, or my fetchmail) has quoted it on my message. Greg -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-art: What we could do with enough money. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
(kindof on the level of a splash screen) I disagree. BogoMIPS is a completely meaningless measurement and does not belong in our source tree as it will only produce repository bloat. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
a PR using the ``send-pr'' command or http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html and supply the source to your program and whatever other information you think will help us in figuring out the problem. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Field tested: Manufacturing doesn't have a test system

Re: file system system calls

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: grep ^somefuncname */* this is because the concention is to write functions like so: int somefunctioname(foo) { You mean int somefuncname(char *foo) { -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Death is a nonmaskable interrupt

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread Chris Costello
t should I do to fix it? Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with the file system. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Never lick a gift horse in the mouth. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
article! Perhaps it could go into the handbook, or perhaps be an article of its own. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using apache from ports! -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-- To Unsubscribe

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: Patches to do this would be trivial. It would have to be a flag you'd use with '-r' otherwise we'd have to call the program 'fetch'. What about the graphical interface and Java versions? Any plans for that in pkg_install? -- |Chris Costello

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
aren't motivational, I give up.] -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Eunuchs, the non-gender-specific OS ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Costello
PL command into a product which is sold in binary form only. You also cannot do such things with an embedded Unix system using said command. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |My mail reader can beat up your mail reader. ` To Unsubscribe: send

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