At 3:08 PM -0400 8/3/99, Ayan George wrote:
>I've been wondering -- are there any plans for a FreeBSD version
>of VMware?
The makers of VMware are probably wondering if they would sell
enough copies of a FreeBSD-based version. If you would buy
such a product, then let them know. Check www.vmwa
At 2:49 PM -0800 1/11/00, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > >Another thing that ``works for me''. Only make it ki, mi, and gi
> > >to fit with the new binary mode international appreviation standards,
> > >unless of cource you use base 10 divisors.
> >
> > Why not KB, MB or GB, since that's what you're
At 6:01 PM -0800 1/11/00, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>Garance wrote:
> > personally, I'd just as soon use K, M, and G and have it mean
> > the base-10 values. If I'm looking at a decimal number for one
> > file (because it's small enough), I don't want a base-2 version
> > of the similar number for
At 4:51 PM -0500 1/12/00, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>< said:
>
> > In 'ls' we are not talking about a block count, we are talking about
> > a byte-count.
>
>ls -s
Hmm, valid point. 'ls -l' is not using a block count though, and so
all of my previous comments still make sense for 'ls -l' and the new
Back on December 27, 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 8:55 AM -0500 12/24/99, Robert Watson wrote:
>>For example, imagine that the user has a
>>number of hard links to the file in question.
>
> Okay, here's my newer version of the code, which takes
> into account
At 10:43 AM -0800 1/21/00, John Polstra wrote:
>This is another in my series of occasional nags to try to get people
>to use some of the less heavily loaded CVSup mirrors. In the US
>alone, we have 8 mirror sites now, named (duh) cvsup[1-8].FreeBSD.org.
>The newest, cvsup8, is a very high-capacit
At 9:42 PM +0100 1/21/00, Jesper Skriver wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:34:42PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 10:43 AM -0800 1/21/00, John Polstra wrote:
> > >This is another in my series of occasional nags to try to get
> > >people to use some of th
At 9:54 AM -0800 1/24/00, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:16:32PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > And just how do I increase the space on a CDROM???
> >
> > Include another CD-ROM.
>
>You are missing the point. The installation CDROM only shows
>you the packages on that CDROM,
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > On the 29th of January, I'll be freezing the -current branch (well,
> > OK, the trunk). That means NO commits without my review first ...
Could someone commit the 2-line bug fix in bin/15728 before yet
another system release goes out the door?
At 5:41 AM +0100 2/12/00, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > Well, I'd first be very interested to know if anyone has even seen
> > this work. :)
>
>Well, will the 4.0 lockd also work with a 3.3 system? I could need
>a working lockd, but I do not want to
At 1:51 PM +0100 2/25/00, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>I just saw that openssh (thanks Mark!) is using /etc/ for its configuration
>file. As the author of the "--with-etcdir" option of SSH (back in '96) and
>for the sake of consistency, I'd like to create a /etc/ssh directory and
>move everything there
At 11:37 PM -0800 2/23/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>Since it came down to making openssl actually useful for something or
>taking it out of the tree, we accelerated progress somewhat on the
>openssh integration work.
Sounds like a good idea.
>I will also be delaying -current's release date unti
At 10:31 PM -0800 2/19/00, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > if 4.0 is delayed, I want it delayed for things which are actually busted,
> > and not to move features from the ports collection to the base system.
>
>No-one's talking about delaying 4.0.
Not directly, but all the work trying to figure this ou
At 8:09 PM -0800 2/19/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Having _a_ general-purpose cryptography toolkit in the base system allows
> > us to add in all sorts of cool things to FreeBSD (https support for fetch,
> > openssh, random cryptographic enhancements elsewhere). OpenSSL just
> > happens to be
At 4:47 PM +0100 2/21/00, Morten Seeberg wrote:
>Hi, I just installed: FreeBSD fw.home 4.0-2208-CURRENT and have a few
>comments:
>
>It seems that BASH in 4.x needs Combat 3.x, but why cant BASH work this out
>for it self? One day when installing BSD without X (which automatically
>installs Co
At 11:45 AM -0800 2/19/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000219 02:22] wrote:
> > I remeber being a newbie and getting burned by the need to explicitly
> > turn a line 'off' in my /etc/ttys file instead of simply deleting it.
> >
> > This fixes it using a trivial
At 6:53 PM +0100 2/29/00, Dave Boers wrote:
>It is rumoured that Forrest Aldrich had the courage to say:
> > No, it allows you to log in, but will not accept anonymous logins.
> > Login Incorrect
>
>This has been going on for nearly 20 hours now. About 20 hours
>ago the machine was briefly unreach
At 10:37 PM +0100 3/6/00, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>William Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do we update it, ie, when a updated version comes out.
>
>OpenSSH doesn't really have releases. The upstream version is
>straight out of the OpenBSD repository. I assume several of our
>develope
>On 2000-Mar-08 10:38:23 +1100, Dan Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has anyone thought about the problem I posted a few days ago
> >(getcwd() breaks on unionfs in some conditions)? That seems like
> >a pretty big problem to me... maybe not too many people use unionfs
> >though, I don't know.
At 10:29 AM +1030 3/3/00, Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 13:43:17 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I hate to follow up my own post. It would appear that -e was added
> > before 3.3R went out the door. Given that, I think the patch should
> > look more like the following:
>
>I'm st
At 10:36 PM -0500 3/2/00, Laurence Berland wrote:
>Which is also a perl script, which sh uses (since it's not a builtin
>there). It does the same thing as the 'which' that's built in to bash
>and tcsh and csh
If you do a 'type -a which' or 'help which' in bash, you'll find that
'which' is not a
At 11:23 PM -0500 3/5/00, John Baldwin wrote:
>On 06-Mar-00 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >
> >> the ports (yeah, stupid me), to no avail. It complained about some
> >> RSA library missing.
> >
> > Did you read the error message? Perhaps you should. Perhaps r
At 12:17 AM -0700 3/6/00, Chris Wasser wrote:
>I was just watching a buildworld happen when I noticed (specifically
>in gcc, and a few other places) the following warning several times:
>
>warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()
>
>I'm not sure if it's a big deal or not,
At 11:29 AM +0100 3/6/00, Edwin Kremer wrote:
>On a side note: last week, Tatu Ylonen, principal author of SSH, posted a
>message on the SSH mailing-list (in the thread about the new SSH2 license)
>saying that:
>
> " OpenSSH is based on my version from back in 1995 or 1996. The
> " OpenSSH fo
At 10:37 PM +0200 8/23/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
>Is anybody capable to solve or fix bin/7973 in lpd? I have found the
>problem is still there (FreeBSD-3.2). Or am I anything missing/doing wrong?
>
>bin/7973: Bad control file owner in case of remote printing. The problem
>is that print filters ("if"
At 8:44 AM +0200 8/24/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote (1999/08/23):
>
> > Why would the filter be reading the control file? It is just a
> > filter, supposedly reading from stdin and writing to stdout...
>
>Yes and not.
>
>You can look into apsfi
I noticed problem-report bin/9362, which reported that the
'lpc start' command no longer works. (it claims to start
the queue, but it doesn't actually start it).
I came up with a two or three line fix for that bug, and
sent it in as problem-report bin/13549. This patch should
work on both freeb
At 8:09 PM +0200 9/6/99, Andreas Klemm wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > -/var/cron/log 600 3 100 * Z
> > +/var/log/cron.log 600 3 100 * Z
> > /var/log/amd.log 664 7 100
At 9:10 AM -0800 11/2/99, Doug Barton wrote:
>Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > I think it is necessary to make it exit for now, because what we are
> > really doing is a net-0 gain in files... turning what used to be
> > functionality in /etc/make.conf.local into /etc/make.conf. The
> >
At 12:17 PM -0700 11/3/99, Nate Williams wrote:
> > BOOTP in
> > the kernel will go _when_there_is_an_acceptable_alternative_.
>
>You've already stated *THERE IS AN ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE*, and it's
>PXE. (I can use all caps instead of underscores to make a point too :)
I thought he was saying t
At 11:09 AM -0800 11/3/99, Mike Smith wrote:
>I can either spend more time trying to deal with what I see
>as FUD, or actually do the work, and I'm picking the latter.
>
>[...snip...]. We need to keep ourselves focussed on where we're
>going, and right now, in this context, it means that we need
At 3:48 PM -0700 11/15/99, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Matthew> Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we
>Matthew> are at it considering how much of a security hole it is.
>
>I wouldn't nuke it completely. Make
At 6:22 PM -0800 11/15/99, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>Well, I think there is an issue in the proc struct bloat but I disagree
>strongly about modifying argv - any worthwhile code uses setproctitle()
>now simply because the argv space is highly dependant on the number of
>arguments pass
bin/13549,
is also confirmed in bin/14975.
>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:14:55 -0500
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Two fixes for lpd/lpc (printing)
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I noticed problem-report bin/9362, which reported that
At 8:03 AM + 11/24/99, Brian Somers wrote:
> > This was discussed close to death before the changes were committed,
> > and the current behaviour (restricted access) has been agreed by
> > general consensus to be the most appropriate.
>
>My reading of the thread was ``I'm going to cache ps arg
oling partition.
That may not seem like much of an issue when you're printing
10-Kbyte files, but when you're throwing around 200-Meg files
(for color plotters, for instance), then it can be very nice.
The text from my previous attempts follow.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
At 2:33 AM -0800 12/10/99, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>Can someone take a look at this?
>
>Basically, it makes the link to the file, if it can unlink the original
>it will then chown the spool file if it can't delete or read the original
>then the user didn't have permission and it backs out.
I'm th
At 7:24 PM +0100 12/10/99, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>On Fri, 10-Dec-1999 at 13:16:16 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > I'm thinking you'd what to add an lstat call after creating the
> > hardlink. Check the new file to see if it's a symlink, and if it
>
>Can
At 2:33 AM -0800 12/10/99, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>Can someone take a look at this?
>
>Basically, it makes the link to the file, if it can unlink the original
>it will then chown the spool file if it can't delete or read the original
>then the user didn't have permission and it backs out.
Okay,
At 8:55 AM -0500 12/24/99, Robert Watson wrote:
>... keep in mind that this optimization does not produce behavior
>behavior in some cases. For example, imagine that the user has a
>number of hard links to the file in question. If the file is copied and
>then deleted, then the link count is decr
At 8:55 AM -0500 12/24/99, Robert Watson wrote:
>For example, imagine that the user has a
>number of hard links to the file in question.
Okay, here's my newer version of the code, which takes into
account multiple hard links, and also makes it so the spooled
data file is owned by daemon instead o
At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to
>just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a
>designation before 'early alpha' this patch would get it.
"Rough-draft proposal for early alpha versi
At 6:33 PM -0500 3/28/00, Thimble Smith wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:49:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >At first glimpse, everything seems identical.. so, where is the
> >difference? I realized that I had changed ONLY the password, and this
> >was shown in the diffs in this strange
At 11:13 AM -0700 4/6/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>For the latest 4.0-STABLE snapshots:
>ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
>
I can get to the above machine just fine, but it does not seem
to let me use anonymous-ftp login's...
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED
At 3:41 AM -0400 4/19/00, Robert Watson wrote:
>I hope not to change the format any further. I've been considering
>introducing a backing file header version number of some sort, but
>this is only necessary if we think the backing file format will
>change much more.
>
>Comments welcome.
If you'r
At 1:21 PM -0400 4/28/00, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I've wanted to do this on occasion. Where are these pre-FreeBSD
> > history records available?
>
>You can buy them on CD-ROM, IIRC. In order to do so, however, you
>must first take out a SCO ``Historical UNIX Vers
At 1:05 PM +0200 5/2/00, Brad Knowles wrote:
> A thread on news.software.nntp got me checking into this,
>and now I've gotten very curious. From what I can determine, it
>looks like what is integrated into FreeBSD is Berkeley db 1.85
>(in /usr/src/libc/db), although there is a port for 2.7.
At 7:08 PM -0400 5/9/00, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>Given:
>
>typedef struct junk {
>...
>} junk_t
>
>volatile junk_t trash;
>
>What I want to do is zero out trash.
>
>bzero(trash, sizeof(junk_t));
>
>produces a warning about loss of volatility.
>So, how do I make everyone happy?
Write a 'bzer
At 10:52 PM -0700 5/14/00, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>* No longer a dependency on RSA (and therefore rsaref for US folks):
> SSH2 can handle DSA keys which have no patent or usage restrictions.
> This means we could now enable SSH2 out of the box in a crypto
> installation, with no post-installation
> > I think that you no longer have to include Motif with the JDK.
> > Just let the distribution of Motif come from freebsd.org , i.e.,
> > a port or a package.
>
>Too much hassle IMO. I'd *much* rather distribute it as part of the
>package, and I'm looking into how feasible it would be to distri
At 9:35 AM -0600 5/16/00, Nate Williams wrote:
> > If this Open Motif can be distributed as a port or package for FreeBSD
> > itself (and it seems to me that it can), then what hassle is that for
> > JDK on FreeBSD?
>
>It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS
>requires m
At 2:41 AM -0400 5/17/00, Thimble Smith wrote:
>On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:52:32PM -0400, Donn Miller wrote:
> > Anyone like the idea of adding wide char support to our libc? Maybe
> > we could port it over from {Net,Open}BSD or BSDi. This would add the
> > header file , etc.
>
>There's a mailin
On May 21/2000, Clive Lin wrote to -current&-i18n:
> > The only way i found to link motif programs is by using
> >
> > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/wcs-19990606.tar.gz
>
>This seems the solution of wc* routines in FreeBSD.
>
>Could any one tell us, is this project dead ?
Last I knew, D
At 2:25 PM -0700 5/23/00, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > jake2000/05/23 13:41:02 PDT
> > Log:
> > Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared;
> > don't assume that the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY
> > is a struct.
> >
> > Suggested by: phk
> > Reviewed by:
At 10:34 AM -0600 5/28/00, Warner Losh wrote:
>I need to setup a machine that will boot FreeBSD, NetBSD and
>OpenBSD. Assume I have an insane amount of disk space. What's
>the best way to accomplish this? Last time I tried it, the
>partition ID numbers were all the same, making this difficult
>
At 12:51 PM +0200 6/8/00, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>On 8/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>| -On [2608 03:12], Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>| >Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
>| >character set:
>| >
>| >0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
At 8:47 PM -0700 6/8/00, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Boris Popov wrote:
>
> > Count both, nwfs and smbfs, because any program can
> > attempt to create temporary file on these filesystems. Files
> > with an invalid file name will be rejected, and this will
> > cost an additional
At 12:07 AM -0500 6/9/00, Dan Nelson wrote:
>I still suggest not using symbols at all, since I'd like to
>be able to quickly remove tempfiles by hand without worrying
>if I have to escape # or ^, etc.
Uh, if I understand the update, the '#' is ALREADY used for
this, in the current implementation.
>It's probably better to just get rid of the PID and use randomness
>throughout the name than to use 72 characters. 64^6 vs. 2*(72^3) .
I seem to be in the minority on this, but in general I *like* the
idea that the tempfiles include the pid. It's bad because it makes
it easier for an evil-perso
At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote:
>It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra
>words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64,
>etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea.
For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under
linux,
At 4:00 PM -0400 6/23/00, Kelly Yancey wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shawn Halpenny wrote:
>
> > I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never
> > modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If
> > the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a dr
At 1:10 PM -0700 6/29/00, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>
> > Luckily I happened to have seen -current in the past couple of days.
> > Trying to search -current on the web site for the appropriate keywords
> > yeilded only articles from the years 1997 through 1999,
At 3:18 PM -0700 7/5/00, Mike Smith wrote:
>someone else wrote:
> > The only time this showed up as problem was that when I reinstalled
> > the loader (and related forth files), loader silently was not able
> > to read /boot or /modules- the key word here is "silently".
> >
> > There ought to be a
At 12:50 AM -0600 7/6/00, John Galt wrote:
>Is there a quick and dirty way for the label editor to detect if
>a BIOS is using LBA? This actually sounds like a setup in which
>the error condition should be alerted on placing / on a cylinder
>higher than 1024 rather than long after you can do anyth
At 5:39 PM -0400 7/14/00, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>Around here, we have a convention that each printer has a record
>in the DNS for printername.lpd-spooler which points to the print
>server for that printer. It occurred to me that, if there are no
>local printers, no additional information is need
At 9:25 PM -0700 7/14/00, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
>How would this work with printers on local networks?
>
>Say, a print server 192.168.1.73?
>
If you do not have a special DNS entry for that printer,
then this new synthetic-printcap option would do nothing
for you. In other words, you would contin
At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here
>proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER
>environment variable to something like
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>louie
For what it's worth, I think that feature
At 12:41 AM +0200 7/29/00, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>After discussion with obrien, jhb, and dwithe (and non-protests from
>the other committers present), I'm changing the defaults for remote
>services in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to the least dangerous
>configuration, and making sysinstall write out overr
At 10:39 PM +0100 8/2/00, Mark Ovens wrote:
>I originally sent this to -committers but was advised that the
>maintainers and -hackers or -current was more appropriate.
>
>I've posted some patches for PR 14682 which include some changes
>to the source code for lpr(1), lprm(1) etc.
>
>Could someone
At 12:30 AM +0900 8/10/00, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
>Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI
>project's progress.
>
>We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree!
>
>[...skipping...]
>Folks, there are a lot of exciting and cool things, like Processor
>and Dev
At 11:30 AM -0400 8/30/00, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>Just F.Y.I
>
> I understand that, today, IBM is announcing it will open-source
>AFS via the IBM Public Source license..
>
> Some quotes I've seen:
>
>"IBM announced today the open source contribution of a
>high-performance file system tech
At 12:57 PM -0700 9/11/01, Julian Elischer wrote:
>The state of the patch is:
>Everything runs except nwfs and smbfs (my head hurts whe I read them)
>
>We will be committing this in the next day or so, as we have really hit
>a dead end as far as how far we can go without doing this.
>
>We expect t
At 1:52 AM +0900 10/3/01, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:30:33 -0400
> >>>>> Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>drosih> The print queue for 'lp' on oink refers to a remote machine that
>drosih>
At 2:19 PM +0200 10/1/01, Alexander Langer wrote:
>
>> alex> 15329 ?? S 0:00.02 lpd -4
>> alex> alex@oink ~ $ lpq
> > alex> lpd: Host name for your address
>(fe80::250:baff:fed4:a512%xl0) unknown
>
>I started lpd on this machine: (with the -4 flag, see above).
>alex@oink ~ $ uname -a ;
At 12:43 PM -0700 10/16/01, Brooks Davis wrote:
>I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into
>some interesting problems. The first one was that current has the
>getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortunately
>FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x don't have this
>Thomas Quinot writes:
>> Currently, when reboot is invoked with the '-p' command line flag
>> (powerdown), it performs a shutdown with RB_HALT|RB_POWEROFF.
>> In some situations, it can be useful to try to perform a poweroff,
>> but reboot if it fails (e.g. when you are shutting down the syst
At 6:36 PM +0100 2/1/02, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>Consider that the actual code in the various rc* start scripts is
>in most cases of the form:
>
>if foo_enable==yes
> do stuff
>else
> do nothing
The RC scripts are starting up in a "known" environment (loosely
speaking). Enough is known about t
At 6:36 PM +0100 2/1/02, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>Consider that the actual code in the various rc* start scripts is
>in most cases of the form:
>
>if foo_enable==yes
> do stuff
>else
> do nothing
Let me approach this from a different angle. Several people have
tried to argue this by proposing v
At 5:16 PM -0500 2/1/02, Benjamin P. Grubin wrote:
> > I understand the first "error" (where the machine ends up completely
>> open) is not desirable. It is very very bad. However, I
>> think we can write some code to help out that user. That
>> user is extremely likely to be sitting at the
At 4:52 PM -0500 2/1/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>It *is* reasonable for them to assume the same
>behavior would be true for network_enable=no.
I meant "firewall_enable=no" here! If the option *was* called
"network_enable=no", then it would be VERY reasonable t
At 10:56 PM -0700 2/1/02, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>Actually, there's a simple way around this that is failsafe.
>
>firewall_enable=YES What it deos now
> =NOWide open
> =FAILSAFE Defaults to wired down.
>
>/etc/defaults/rc.conf
>
>firewall_enable=FAILSAFE
At 8:08 PM -0800 2/5/02, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:12:15PM -0500, Jeroen C.van Gelderen wrote:
>
>> David is about to switch to GCC 3.0 and I guess he does not like moving
>> targets. I would expect that for the GCC 4.0 upgrade a similar freeze
> > request will go out. An
With 4.5-release out the door, I thought I'd start trying to use
5.0-current on my "main freebsd machine" instead of 4.x-stable. I
figure at some point we (as developers) have got to try to migrate
to that release as much as possible.
I had been doing some stuff with 5.0-current at home. That s
At 11:54 PM -0500 2/5/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 8:08 PM -0800 2/5/02, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>All David has to do is set WARNS=0 or NO_WERROR=1 in or
>>/etc/defaults/make.conf temporarily when he tests and commits the
>>changeover, and he'll sidestep all the p
At 9:13 AM -0800 2/6/02, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:02:34AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> WITNESS can really hurt. Quite possibly I should turn it off in
>> GENERIC now (I wouldn't mind if someone else did that.)
>
>I think it should stay. Especially as we are not getting
At 12:10 AM -0500 2/6/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>One simple test I tried was that I have a copy of the freebsd cvs
>repository in /usr/cvs/free, on it's own partition. Each system
>has it's own /usr/src, of course. I cvsup'ed /usr/cvs/free, and
>then did a
>
At 5:23 PM -0800 2/6/02, Joe Kelsey wrote:
>It is plain that many people will want to be able to install a
>version of gcc that is officially supported and that also
>includes *all* of the standard platforms that come as part of
>the gcc release.
This line of reasoning does not scale up well.
It
At 12:10 AM -0500 2/6/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>One simple test I tried was that I have a copy of the freebsd cvs
>repository in /usr/cvs/free, on it's own partition. Each system
>has it's own /usr/src, of course. I cvsup'ed /usr/cvs/free, and
>then did a
>
With 4.5-release out the door, I thought I'd start trying to use
5.0-current on my "main freebsd machine" instead of 4.x-stable. I
figure at some point we (as developers) have got to try to migrate
to that release as much as possible.
I had been doing some stuff with 5.0-current at home. That s
At 1:08 PM -0500 2/19/02, Michael Lucas wrote:
>In an ideal world, you're correct.
>
>The real question here should have been: do those people who
>are actively committing rapidly to the tree want to see this
>happen? They are the people who will realistically have to
>deal with the PRs.
This is
At 9:00 PM -0500 2/21/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 1:08 PM -0500 2/19/02, Michael Lucas wrote:
>>In an ideal world, you're correct.
>>
>>The real question here should have been: do those people who
>>are actively committing rapidly to the tree want to see thi
At 11:51 AM -0800 3/10/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>H. OK, you intrigued me enough by this that I just went
>ahead and did it in -current. :) Let me know what you think,
>come tomorrow's snapshot.
Ooo. Might this be MFC-able before 4.3 goes out the door?
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn
At 3:39 PM -0400 4/19/01, John W. De Boskey wrote:
>I have added a -d dir option to cp. This allows the target
>directory to be specified at the head of the command line
>instead of the tail. This makes cp work much more nicely with
>tools like xargs... (allowing for major performance improvem
At 10:08 PM -0700 4/19/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Or maybe something to indicate where the list of arguments
>> should go in a command. Hrm. Let's say '-Y replstr' or
>> '-y[replstr]' (no blan
At 1:19 PM -0700 4/21/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Does that mean everyone is blind and missed my arrogant
>cross-post of the amazingly short patch to do this, or
>are we just interested in discussing it and not testing
>the implementation? ;-)
Well, I'm in the middle of a massive reorganization of
a
At 10:01 AM -0400 4/25/01, John W. De Boskey wrote:
>Hi David, Brian,
>
>Thank you for taking the time to reply. I hope you were
>able to review the patch also.
Every time you have asked for people's opinions, they have
said that it seems wrong to made add a specific option to
the 'cp' comman
At 6:08 PM -0700 4/25/01, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Dimi has written one or two different patches to xargs. Did
> ^^^ <-- should be 'a', but that's okay. :-)
Note that I also wrote:
> > If you need
At 1:18 AM +0400 6/12/01, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>I understand now. That info you can provide from the beginning
>to minimize messages exchange. I am open to discuss how to fix it.
I think it is probably best to let Bruce Mah figure out why
it has broken, and let him provide the best "immediate
At 2:28 PM -0700 6/17/01, Matt Dillon wrote:
>:On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:31:41 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>:> It seems your argument to disallow null symlinks got somehow taken
>:> as an argument to disallow all "invalid" symlinks then.
>:
>:
>:To say it more clear: now I even not against ""-sy
At 2:42 PM +0200 6/22/01, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>with current as of June 20 I can no longer print to a remote printer.
>Syslog says "filter 'f' exited (retcode=108)".
>
>I added a "set -x" to the filter which is a shell program, and sure
>enough the last action it does is an "exit 0".
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