Re: /dev/random: really secure?

h completely random skew between several independent clocks. Any particular oscillator will vary in speed semi-randomly, and if you compare multiple clocks you can get pretty random numbers. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally;

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

independent clocks. Any particular oscillator will vary in speed semi-randomly, and if you compare multiple clocks you can get pretty random numbers. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

. > >(I last observed this problem using linux-2.4.0-test12, though. >Now I'm running test13-pre3 and it has not yet occurred.) >- -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To un

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

> By the way, I now checked the syslog, and I see that the last cron message was logged about an hour before I reset the system. So it looks like a total lockup. BTW, what does it mean when this gets logged? Dec 17 19:01:09 localhost kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. Dec 17

APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it only happens when I've left it that way for a long time,

APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it only happens when I've left it that way for a long time,

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

By the way, I now checked the syslog, and I see that the last cron message was logged about an hour before I reset the system. So it looks like a total lockup. BTW, what does it mean when this gets logged? Dec 17 19:01:09 localhost kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. Dec 17

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

observed this problem using linux-2.4.0-test12, though. Now I'm running test13-pre3 and it has not yet occurred.) - -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

o be able to include at least two date-time pairs in a filename... especially for scientific stuff. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

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Re: swapoff weird

At 01:56 AM 12/10/2000 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: >[David Feuer] > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that > > this is not the last link to a swapfile. > >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and >clear immu

Re: swapoff weird

At 01:56 AM 12/10/2000 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [David Feuer] Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that this is not the last link to a swapfile. Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and clear immutable bit. Sure it only works

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

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Re: swapoff weird

don't belong to any user process and may remain active after unlink? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: swapoff weird

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Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

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Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

t would make the graph disconnected. How could the graph become disconnected? What does connectedness have to do with naming? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally, act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

to violate even a written standard when it says something like this... If it says something like this (which can only happen intentionally, afaict) should fail, but you can do something intelligent instead, you probably should. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the n

Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

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Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

ase. The network card COULD be dead, in which case the administrator needs to replace it. Otherwise, a reboot could solve the problem. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally, act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsub

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

be dead, in which case the administrator needs to replace it. Otherwise, a reboot could solve the problem. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally, act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

pcmcia

What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

to write one, as I would hope that most linux users are willing to compile their own kernels... -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

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pcmcia

What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL

national problems

, etc Be afraid. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: malloc (1/0) ??

you don't call malloc again, you should be fine. This way you can get any amount of scribble space. Of course, this only works on normal versions of malloc that don't try to return memory to the OS, etc. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Fe

RE: malloc (1/0) ??

you don't call malloc again, you should be fine. This way you can get any amount of scribble space. Of course, this only works on normal versions of malloc that don't try to return memory to the OS, etc. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Fe

national problems

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Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

on one page. I hope I didn't miss anything, or make any big mistakes. My own guess is that the first option is the most reliable, and that the last one is the most flexible. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED

sound driver persistent state

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sound driver persistent state

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Select

wakes up the process after a certain amount of time if there are _any_ bytes in the pipe/dev? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Can EINTR be handled the way BSD handles it? -- a plea from a user-land programmer...

, at least) to create a race-free signalling system? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: Can EINTR be handled the way BSD handles it? -- a plea from a user-land programmer...

, at least) to create a race-free signalling system? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

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Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

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Re: Weightless process class

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Re: Weightless process class

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