Linux-Development-Sys Digest #824, Volume #7 Fri, 5 May 00 05:13:26 EDT
Contents:
RPC & Linux ("natarajs")
MMAP with /dev/zero usage ??? (Olivier Spielmann)
Re: Gimp Install (Ronald Cole)
Re: MMAP with /dev/zero usage ??? (John Reiser)
Re: wanting to implement logitech quickcam in linux (Ronald Cole)
Re: Where can I find drivers for my hp printer (Ronald Cole)
~~,,.Advice For New Immigrants~~~ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem Drivers (Peter Bloomfield)
ssh not working with firewall 2.3.99pre6/iptables (bill davidsen)
Re: Message from kernel -> user space? (Lindanne Metley)
New File systems ? what choice (Lalot Dominique)
Re: scheduling ("none2")
Linux and PCI......? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
what is "BSS"? ("JKFang")
Re: serial/parallel port programming... (Richard Puchmayer)
Re: what is "BSS"? (Josef Moellers)
Re: Linux memory management changes from 2.0.x -> 2.2.x (Josef Moellers)
Re: HELP PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEE! (nilesh patel)
Re: Linux memory management changes from 2.0.x -> 2.2.x (Ferriere65)
device driver devel HELP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MMAP with /dev/zero usage ??? (Tim Roberts)
Invalid /usr/include/asm symbolic link (Duncan Higgins)
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From: "natarajs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPC & Linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 23:27:36 GMT
I have a linux client which
uses clnt_create(....,"netpath") to connect
to a solaris rpc server which has svc_create(...",netpath")
a solaris version of the client can connect fine
and communicate with the solaris rpc server.
when the linux client connects t o the solaris server
i get an error mesg "RPC "unknown protocol"
what needs to be done ??
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:28:33 -0700
From: Olivier Spielmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MMAP with /dev/zero usage ???
Hi,
I am running RH 5.2 and would like to allocate more than 4096bytes of
memory at a time. Then I tried mmap with the /dev/zero device.
The code is :
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NLOOPS 1000
#define SIZE sizeof(long)
static int update(long*);
int
main()
{
int fd,i,counter;
pid_t pid;
caddr_t area;
if ((fd = open("/dev/zero",O_RDWR)) < 0)
perror("open error");
if ((area = (caddr_t)mmap(NULL,1024,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,0,fd,0)) ==
(caddr_t) -1)
perror("mmap error");
close(fd);
memcpy(area,&i,1024);
return 0;
}
and the output of the program is :
> mmap error: Invalid argument
> Segementation fault (core dumped)
Could anybody help me ?
Thanks
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gimp Install
Date: 04 May 2000 18:34:13 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I may have found my own problem. 'configure' reports that my linker is
> /usr/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/bin/ld. There's no directory there.
>
> I symlinked i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1 to i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 and it
> now reports that my linker supports shared libraries. Will this break
> things (or make lots of things work right)?
Why is your gcc executable hosed? Have you installed gnat or something
after installing gcc?
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From: John Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MMAP with /dev/zero usage ???
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:43:06 -0700
> if ((area = (caddr_t)mmap(NULL,1024,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,0,fd,0)) ==
The "flags" (fourth) argument to mmap should be MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
and the file descriptor "fd" is not needed in this case (use "0" instead)
to get a page of zeroes.
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wanting to implement logitech quickcam in linux
Date: 04 May 2000 18:42:09 -0700
Travis Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i want to make my logitech quick cam express work in linux redhat 6.2
> i have assembled the working USB kernel (2.3.99) and all module drivers, but
> there are no device drivers specific to the logitech quick cam
> i wanted to know if there are any other similar products, that do have drivers,
> that i could attack to make them sort of function with the quick cam,
> or if there are drivers somewhere out there for the logitech quick cam
Having asked a similar question in the past, the answer I got went
something like this: "sooner or later, gPhoto will probably support
your camera (assuming it's popular)".
I, too, have a USB camera (the 3com one) and I was hoping to put up
and play with a web cam on my Linux workstation when I bought it on a
whim. Looks like I'm going to have to do it in the Gates-domain if I
want to do it any time soon.
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can I find drivers for my hp printer
Date: 04 May 2000 18:50:50 -0700
Nicolas Eymerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The printer is working under RH6.1 and Deskjet 670 filter (GhostScript
> 5.10) and Is seen as a 300dpi postscript printer
>
> I still haven't figure out how to work with (in italin is fronte/retro)
> capability of that printer, nor with higher resolution.
>
> Please infor me if you find a better way to use this printer.
Basically, Linux support for your printer boils down to driver support
in Ghostscript. Last time I looked, support consisted of a driver for
either the cdj500 or the cdj550. Pretty ancient stuff!
So, I put my 890 on the windows box in my network and told samba that
it was a remote printer. Since I had a windows box in my network,
that was a good workaround for me.
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Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ~~,,.Advice For New Immigrants~~~
Date: 5 May 2000 02:11:21 GMT
If you are feeling unwelcome in a country they just recently kicked
the door down on, perhaps they could take a few tips to ease their adjustment.
And a few social tips:
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Which leads last to point #5;
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Drivers
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 14:14:24 -0400
``HCF'' = Host <something or other>. This is a controller-less modem.
See Rob Clark's invaluable page:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ssh not working with firewall 2.3.99pre6/iptables
Date: 5 May 2000 04:28:51 GMT
I am testing a firewall using the latest kernel, and it "almost works,"
except for allowing ssh connections in on the external NIC.
I have the policy on the external set to DROP, and then a rule to ACCEPT
connections from {ip-range} to the ssh port. And the connection seems to
work, in that the status of the connect with netstat -t is ESTABLISHED.
However, I get back no traffic on the connection. Also note that I have
an accept on state, accepting ESTABLISHED and RELATED. I can ping,
telnet, ssh, ftp and dns *out* and get the responses, but after the
socket is opened no data flows.
I presume that (a) this is a limitation of the the 'state' tracking, and
(b) that I have to open the firewall a little wider. The question is,
can someone who knows the full connect mechanism give me a hint what
additional i/o takes place other than on the ssh socket? I don't really
want to open all the non-system sockets to connects, and I didn't LOG
any SYN packets or ICMP traffic after the socket was opened.
I thought the state processing was going to take care of all this "by
magic" and allow better firewalls, but so tight it doesn't work is not
better, so I have to open things up.
This is the only issue with iptables I haven't resolved, although the
SNAT stuff seems to be a complex substitute for masquerade on a machine
with multiple IP addreses on several NICs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindanne Metley)
Subject: Re: Message from kernel -> user space?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:03:49 -0800
/ When you need callbacks from kernel -> user, the canonical method is to
/ use a usermode helper process. Start a usermode thread which blocks on
/ an ioctl. To make the callback, simply unblock the thread in the driver.
Sort of what I was afraid of.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lalot Dominique)
Subject: New File systems ? what choice
Date: 5 May 2000 07:55:54 GMT
Hello,
I would like to get some info about the choice of a new file system.
It seems that there are new file systems comming.
Is there some papers comparing the different file systems.
I saw some informations about
ext3
veritas
sgi..
reiserfs
..
I would like to know where major distributions and kernel developer are going.
Once you have formated your disk, it's rather difficult to change!.
Thanks in advance
Dom
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From: "none2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scheduling
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 20:04:54 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anshul Kothari
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to learn how does the process scheduling is done in linux. Can
> any one give me a pointer to some reading material available over the
> net.
>
> anshul
cron tab is your friend
www.linuxdoc.org will help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux and PCI......?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 05:53:03 GMT
Hi,
I am new to Linux and I want to write a device driver for a PCI device.
I have written drivers for the same PCI device on Win 9x, Win NT and
VxWorks and now trying to port the drivers onto the Linux system.
Any help, any pointers, material or examples will be very helpful.
Thanks in Advance,
waiting for a favourable and helpful response,
Vittal
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From: "JKFang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what is "BSS"?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:08:37 +0800
What does it mean by "Cleaning BSS" ?
This question comes when reading some document about linux kernal.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Puchmayer)
Subject: Re: serial/parallel port programming...
Date: 5 May 2000 05:29:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anders Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
->
-> > In article <NH8O4.32153$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-> > Mark Graybill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->
-> i = TIOCM_DTR;
-> ioctl(fd, TIOCMSET, &i);
-
- i = TIOCM_DTR;
- ioctl(fd, TIOCMBIS, &i);
-
Thank you very much for the replies. I have found the various bits
and am happy now :-)
Cheers,
Richard
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is "BSS"?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:58:58 +0200
JKFang wrote:
> =
> What does it mean by "Cleaning BSS" ?
> This question comes when reading some document about linux kernal.
AFAIK "BSS" is an acronym for "block starting segment",
whateverthatmeans.
The classical UNIX implementation had four segments for a user process:
- code, which contained the executable code, was read only and could
therefore be shared among several processes. The code segment was
pre-loaded (now paged in) from the executable file.
- data, which contained the initialized data which could be modified and
therefore was not shared between several processes. The data segment was
pre-loaded (now ...) from the executable file.
- bss, which contained the un-initialized data which could be modified
and therefore was not shared between several processes. The bss segment
was created as zero-initialized memory and not loaded from the
executable file. The bss could be expanded when a process required
additional memory. The end at which the bss was expanded was called the
"break" of a process' address space.
- stack, which containd the runtime dynamic data which could be
modified and therefore was not shared between several processes. The
stack segment was created on-demand by the kernel when a process called
sub-functions.
Hope this helps,
-- =
Josef M=F6llers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
SHV Server DS 1
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux memory management changes from 2.0.x -> 2.2.x
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:46:59 +0200
Ferriere65 wrote:
> Another difference that I noticed about the kernel is that code kernel =
segment
> and data kernel segment are no longer based at 0xC0000000 but instead l=
ike
> user's segments at 0x00000000.
> This could lead to security problems ... on x86 architectures
Could you please elaborate on that?
Why would a separate User/Kernel-Address-Space lead to security
problems?
The original architecture had the advantage that when a user process
entered the kernel, the user address space was still visible. However,
this severely reduced the amount of physical memory the kernel could
support (although a colleague did a modification to support 4GB with the
old archtiecture), since the original concept required that the entire
physical memory were to be mapped into kernel address space.
Not knowing the new memory management architecture, my guess is that it
now supports a full separation between kernel and user space, such that
a simple pointer access from kernel to user space is not possible any
more, allowing fro large kernels with large kernel data spaces, large
buffer spaces, and support for much more than 4GB of main memory.
-- =
Josef M=F6llers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
SHV Server DS 1
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From: nilesh patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEE!
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 12:50:07 +0530
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agarwe wrote:
Yes
>
> Guys ,
> this is a simple question but I need the answer bad...
>
> When I fork , I know that I am starting a new process. When I spwan a
> thread, leaving the fact that it has the concept of shared variables,
> is that the same as starting a
> new process. I read in a book that both fork and spwaning use the same
> function clone(). my question then is , is the maximum no of thread s
> you can have in a system,
> the same as the
> no of processes you can have ?
>
> Really need this answer !!
>
> Ekta..([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> --
>
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agarwe wrote:
<p>Yes
<br>
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<br>Guys ,
<br> this is a simple question but I need the answer bad...
<p>When I fork , I know that I am starting a new process. When I
spwan a thread, leaving the fact that it has the concept of shared variables,
is that the same as starting a
<br>new process. I read in a book that both fork and spwaning use the same
function clone(). my question then is , is the maximum no of thread s you
can have in a system,
<br>the same as the
<br>no of processes you can have ?
<p>Really need this answer !!
<p>Ekta..([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ferriere65)
Subject: Re: Linux memory management changes from 2.0.x -> 2.2.x
Date: 05 May 2000 05:40:01 GMT
>
>Hi
>I have to write a paper on Linux' memory management, including a description
>of the 'aging' mechanism used by the page replacement policy. However, while
>digging through the 2.2.x sources and comparing them to the 2.0.x sources,
>it seems to me that aging is no longer used in 2.2. Is this correct, or am I
>missing something?
>I'd really appreciate it if someone could clear this up.
>Thanks,
>Niels
>
Another difference that I noticed about the kernel is that code kernel segment
and data kernel segment are no longer based at 0xC0000000 but instead like
user's segments at 0x00000000.
This could lead to security problems ... on x86 architectures
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: device driver devel HELP
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 05:37:25 GMT
hi guys ,
i am trying to write a new device driver for my mouse.
should i know the kernel internals completely or onle
alessandro rubini is enough. thank you
gowtham
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From: Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MMAP with /dev/zero usage ???
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:53:23 -0700
Olivier Spielmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am running RH 5.2 and would like to allocate more than 4096bytes of
>memory at a time. Then I tried mmap with the /dev/zero device.
I've seen this trick used elsewhere. Can you (patiently) help me
understand why this is preferable to, for example, malloc?
--
- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Higgins)
Subject: Invalid /usr/include/asm symbolic link
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:49:35 GMT
I've got RedHat 6.0 installed and am having a problem with the
symbolic links to include directories. My /usr/include/linux points to
../src/linux/include/linux which is all fine and dandy. The problem is
that my /usr/include/asm points to ../src/linux/include/asm which
doesn't exist ! The directories in /usr/src/linux/include include
asm-generic and asm-i386. Should I change the asm symbolic link to
point to one of these directories to get my include directives to
work, or do I need to install extra stuff ? What is the difference
between these two directories ?
Although I am an experienced C developer, I am new to the Linux
platform, so if this is a stupid question, be nice to me :)
Thanks,
Duncan.
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ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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