Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Erik Nordmark wrote: Perhaps I didn't see it, but which (if either) MTU corresponds to what may be publically seen? Or does it matter (if IP fragmenting hides the distinction)? IP fragmentation hides the distinction. It is the unicast MTU that is reported using the

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Disclaimer: I'm no network guru, and this is the first time I've so much as looked at RFCs 4391 and 4755. I have no idea what other implementations supporting IPoIB-CM do (it might be worth finding out...). Ok, I looked (minimally), and I _think_ Linux is generally allowing the

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] It seems a shame to me that the architecture for this new feature stops at the IP/driver connection and doesn't include the API level. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com Particularly since the information is already available - the UD MTU has

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] network overhead. The only question being if there's some precedent in another implementation for what the API should look like. I'm having trouble thinking up a likely google/bing query for that... In attempting to find a precedent (without luck so far, and I'll probably run out of

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Perhaps I didn't see it, but which (if either) MTU corresponds to what may be publically seen? Or does it matter (if IP fragmenting hides the distinction)? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-08-04 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Beware that if you have getprogname(), you may find people wanting the entire FreeBSD err(3) family, Already there: changeset: 4891:f4f971e9574d user:vk199839 date:Sat Aug 18 10:07:23 2007 -0700 description: PSARC/2006/662 Make err/warn

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-08-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
re getprogname(): since I don't see man pages in the public case directory, * is there also a setprogname() as in at least some FreeBSD? If so, is it implicit in the run-time startup, or does one need to call it explicitly? * since argv[0] can be anything, is this equivalent to getexecname()

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-07-29 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
What SUSv4 functions are still missing after this case? Have requests been filed for them? As an example, I didn't see wcsnlen(). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org

Re: logadm.conf upgrade [PSARC/2010/290 FastTrack timeout 07/27/2010]

2010-07-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 7/26/10 12:10 PM, Antonello Cruz wrote: Well, your second email came just when I had finished my reply. Since it is not immediately clear why I am restricting access to the files in /etc/logadm.d I'll send my original reply here anyway. logadm can run arbitrary scripts defined

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 07/26/10 09:32 AM, Peter Memishian wrote: Seeing yet another involvement of /etc/ symlinks brought by Darren leads me to question the architectural value of the proposed changes. I like cleanlyness. I also like compatibility. This seems architecturally to me like

Re: EOF SYSV3 SCO compatibility environment variable [PSARC 2010/233 FastTrack timeout, 06/30/2010]

2010-06-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] I'm not saying don't do it; I'm saying I'd want (a) a _very_ careful reading of standards to see if extensions are allowed, given such behavior; and [...] Just looked it up at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expr.html which says: The use of string arguments

Re: EOF SYSV3 SCO compatibility environment variable [PSARC 2010/233 FastTrack timeout, 06/30/2010]

2010-06-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Using the older behavior of expr vs the new (as seen in /usr/gnu/bin/expr) (both of these SPARC snv_97, but that's irrelevant to my point): $ x=index $ /usr/bin/expr $x = i= 0 $ /usr/gnu/bin/expr $x = i= 1 In other words, because commands called from the shell have no way to know what

Re: Solaris Instance UUID [PSARC/2010/226 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 6/18/10 9:52 PM, Cynthia McGuire wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Seem to be missing some content here ... did you perhaps forget to forward something? For

Re: System Configuration -- nodename and defaultdomain [PSARC/2010/223 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] There may or may not be customer scripts reading the files in this case, but I don't know of anything specific and any modern version of sendmail should not, at least. Hugh. FYI, a number of Linux distros (and Mac OS X!) follow the earlier Solaris model of persistently storing the

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Nevertheless, if there are _any_ scripts that use it, unless you get rid of all 29 (or however many) links to it, I don't see any incremental gain by removing some of them. Am taking the conservative approach here by removing only those commands which could not possibly return true.

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:03 -0700, Scott Rotondo wrote: Several people have pointed out that the harm from removing these commands isn't that great because (a) recent scripts tend not to use this mechanism to figure out the type of platform, and (b) older scripts will still

Re: PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-05-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
While this case was approved, with the idea that these utilities would be replaced by integrating the GNU plotutils suite, I'd like to change direction somewhat. Specifically, it seems that /contrib is a superior delivery mechanism for these tools. I don't believe that there is a

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Therefore, mounts within a non-global zone are restricted to a given allowed list of filesystems, as described in Section 5 and Section 6. This applies to all mounts not just lofi ones. 5. New vfs flag VSW_ZMOUNT The default list of allowed filesystems is based upon a new

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Allowing lofi devices into non-global zones introduces a security issue. Some filesystems (notably UFS) are not sufficiently protected against corrupted or maliciously constructed filesystem images, which lofi allows the zone root user to modify. This could potentially lead to a

Re: [desktop-discuss] GDM Integration With audioctl [PSARC/2010/116]

2010-04-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
su - $USER -c /usr/bin/audioctl (args) Double quotes around $USER, please. And I hope that the contents of $USER are trustworthy at that point. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list