Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 09:02] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs vinum does. Why not? make_dev_alias() is cheap and easy to use. Take a look at the /dev/vinum tree under devfs and non

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
system. There's an example in the vinum(8) source: if (sysctlbyname("vfs.devfs.generation", NULL, NULL, NULL, 0) == 0) devfs_is_active = 1; else devfs_is_active = 0; -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 12:19] wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 12:02] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Jacob writes: Lastly make_dev_alias() is undocumented. Right, just like

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 15:21] wrote: On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs vinum does. The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives. Everything else

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, if there isn't a way to delete them, what if I unload and reload vinum then try to make them again? I'm afraid to answer. DES will stay angry. Well now that was a giant waste of my time, wasn't it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Boris Popov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 20:52] wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: What's up with devfs not gc'ing itself? Ie, after a directory becomes empty it seems to still exist within the devfs namespace

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 21:20] wrote: On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 15:21] wrote: On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks

Re: SSLeay refuses to build.

2001-03-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/, or /usr/bin/openssl . It always reponds with : "Could not find OpenSSL in /usr/bin" or whatever other Directory I type. Can someone please shed some light on the issue? Did you try '/usr' ? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: some proposals about nfsd(8)

2001-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, and the binding is done the right way. I'd like to kill 'nfsd -r' however it makes more sense to fix -r so that it works with -h than to just remove the functionality. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 19:39] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Akinori MUSHA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 11:19] wrote: Hi, I have implemented -regex and -iregex options for find(1): Sounds good, just make sure the regex engine matches the one

Re: USER_LDT gone?

2001-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
using -current and not reading commit messages? :P Peter Wemm made it the default and it's no longer optional. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: USER_LDT gone?

2001-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010222 21:46] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Steven G. Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010222 21:35] wrote: With the great libc debacle of 2001, I have not tried to update my system for about 2 weeks. In that time I may have missed the commit message

vinum fix take 2

2001-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for my config. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Akinori MUSHA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 11:19] wrote: Hi, I have implemented -regex and -iregex options for find(1): Sounds good, just make sure the regex engine matches the one that the other find(1)'s use. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the

please test, vinum + devfs

2001-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/* name of plex */ +dev_t dev; }; /*** Volume definitions ***/ @@ -537,6 +539,7 @@ int plex[MAXPLEX]; /* index of plexes */ char name[MAXVOLNAME]; /* name of volume */ struct disklabel label;

Re: Do we need a 3. level between stable and cuurent?

2001-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
f no known problems) This is a good idea, however it would take someone dedicated to maintaining this as well as doing regression testing. Those regression tests could easily be ported to -stable making for happier -stable as well as -current users. Are you volunteering? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: Fix for mountpath lenght

2001-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a

Re: Fix for mountpath lenght

2001-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010215 10:15] wrote: This looks right, except that Bruce says that SCARG isn't to be used, instead just use uap-path. Also, you can't call strlen on a userland pointer. please test patches before submitting them! -Alfred * Martin Blapp [EMAIL

Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)

2001-02-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010212 17:28] wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I made the mistake of looking at this bikeshed and lost my nerve. The patch I was going to commit was: http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/stdio.diff3 .. but

Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)

2001-02-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: OpenSSL ASM patch

2001-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and ported to -stable ASAP. Is it possible to have multiple ASM cores and use the appropriate routines? Or must it all be choosen at compile time? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe:

Re: OpenSSL ASM patch

2001-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010211 12:52] wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:47:07PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Looks awesome, someone complained that Linux was able to maintain an order of magnitude more SSL connections than FreeBSD, since you say this gives us a 3-5x speed up

Re: Is -CURRENT in bad shape?

2001-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
om Sat Feb 10 17:00:18 looks ok, there were just some patches to the scheduler but no one has complained yet. Let us know. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Current SMP Kernel panics

2001-02-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: atomic_ question

2001-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. The only way to implement them on these platforms is to use a lock. Now I'm wonder if the use of a sleep mutex is allowed or is a simple spinning lock the sensefull choice. Either one would work. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I

Re: *_ROOT removed

2001-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 06:29] wrote: "Leif Neland" wrote: While the error-messages are clear, I don't remember seeing any heads-up, or mentioning of this in UPDATING Or is it just me...? No, there wasn't one.. The commit message was pretty clear - You are

Re: *_ROOT removed

2001-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 17:25] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 06:29] wrote: "Leif Neland" wrote: While the error-messages are clear, I don't remember seeing any heads-up, or mentioning of this i

installable snapshot of -current?

2001-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I'm trying to install -current on a dual CPU machine with an Adaptec 7880, it's hanging somewhere after the scsi probe (no indication that it's over) and sysinstall starting up. Can anyone recommend a -current snapshot that will work? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
This is an old problem that I think was never addressed. It has to do with the vm system (on i386). It may be fixed now, so keep playing a bit, if not open a problem report and someone ought to get to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a c

Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Martin Blapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010125 11:07] wrote: Hi, Alfred Perlstein and I have ported TI-RPC to FreeBSD Current. You can find the latest snapshot here: http://www.attic.ch/rpc.diff_01114001.tgz Patches and bugfixes are welcome. Can you post a summary of how you've done

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to do something about it. To answer your question about VLF (which I had to guess at) assuming you mean Very Large Files: 1) yes some tools break on them, I don't have a list handy. 2) BSD has had native VLF support since 4.4-BSD. (off_t is 64bit) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps

2001-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
them without the -pthread option using -lc_r. For porters, the __FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 500016 to reflect the above change. This is ambiguous, can you provide old/new examples of how to compile/link a single C source file? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps

2001-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010124 10:32] wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Daniel Eischen said: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Daniel M. Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010124 05:26] wrote: As discussed a few days ago, I've just committed the changes to libc

Re: mountd changed?

2001-01-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
out of sync? You should've gotten evil console messages about trying to malloc some obscene amount of memory like 128MB though. No, he would have panic'd before seeing that. Something else is broken I think. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the

Re: current panics in mount(2)

2001-01-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
) uses a bare `struct ucred' and not a well-defined, user-exportable credential structure (like struct cmsgcred used for SCM_CREDS ancillary data). I looked at fixing this once, but got scared off because of binary compatibility issues. Would 'fixing' mount to use cmsgcred be acceptable? -- -Alfred

Re: a panic from recent changes...

2001-01-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
o at least fix mount and friends to use something other than ucred, and slowly remove it (struct ucred) from userland. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the delta within a few days. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADSUP! New netgraph code coming

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 04:27] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This ought to be documented. A good start would be to add example of MODULE_VERSION and MODULE_DEPEND usage to one of the templates in /usr/share/examples/kld/. Since I have no clue

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Randell Jesup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 08:14] wrote: It seems Alfred Perlstein wrote: I have a patch here that removes await/asleep from the kernel API. http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/noasleep.diff Matt Dillon implemented alseep/await quite some time ago and the only thing

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 09:24] wrote: I'm not going to axe it for a few days, this is a really amazing API that Matt added, the problem is utility and useage over code complexity. It's just a proposal. I found several places where it may be useful, but I'm not sure

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 10:02] wrote: It seems Alfred Perlstein wrote: Peter Wemm and I suspect that ata doesn't need it. Right now I'm running several make -j128 buildworlds and buildkernels with this patch to catch any ata problems. U

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
anything in the dept of SMP hw which can trigger it. If you could be more vague it would assist me greatly in figuring out what's broken. /sarcasm thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To U

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 10:43] wrote: It seems Alfred Perlstein wrote: I suggest creative manpower is used to stabilize -current, instead of fine trimming which API's should stay or not... I started a loop of make -j128 buildworld and buildkernel last night, I

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 14:35] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: Which means we don't have to drop the lock over the socket unless we'd block on allocation. No. You'd still have to drop it for now. Remember? (Last commit to uipc_mbuf.c). You have to drop it because

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hmm!! Now I have tried a sys tree from today (0800 CET) two days ago and a week ago, and all 3 of them produces the lockup. So the only thing I can think of is that you guys have something in your src trees that cvs I dont... Now what ? What are the compile flags you are using? -

Re: [CFR] number of processes forked since boot

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Hajimu UMEMOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 10:33] wrote: Hi, I received the patch to add counter for fork() set from Paul. I've tested it on my -CURRENT and -STABLE boxes, and it seems fine for me. So, I post his patch for review. Thanks, Paul. I like this a lot. -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: HEADSUP! New netgraph code coming

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
explicit. ~ % man 9 module No entry for module in section 9 of the manual ~ % man 9 MODULE No entry for MODULE in section 9 of the manual ~ % man 9 MODULE_VERSION No entry for MODULE_VERSION in section 9 of the manual ? This ought to be documented. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL

Re: Atomic breakage?

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Just wondering, can't you use 'LOCK addl' and then use 'LOCK addc'? add longword, add longword with carry? I know it would be pretty ugly, but it should work, no? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my

Re: Kernel source

2001-01-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
confused - what is the problem with BSD or is it me ? Well it's sorta BSD's fault for being a pain with -CURRENT, but it's your fault for running -CURRENT without having the necessary kernel-foo to do so at the moment. :) best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running Linux kernel modules.

2001-01-12 Thread 'Alfred Perlstein'
* Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010111 20:13] wrote: On Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:12 PM, Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: * Carl Makin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010111 14:52] wrote: There are a couple of linux kernel modules that I'd love to run under

Re: Running Linux kernel modules.

2001-01-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and store it in the struct file. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Anybody else seeing a broken /dev/lpt with SMP on -current?

2001-01-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010112 18:56] wrote: On 13-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: I've actually been seeing this for about 2 months now but only just now got motivated enough to enable crashdumps and get some information on what happens whenver I try to use the printer attached

possible fix for gdb hanging the kernel

2000-12-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, SIGCONT); mtx_exit(sched_lock, MTX_SPIN); + psignal(p, SIGCONT); } else { mtx_exit(sched_lock, MTX_SPIN); if (uap-data) { -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I

Re: termios.h patch for review

2000-12-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
0x0010 /* map CR to NL on output */ +#define ONOCR0x0020 /* no CR output at column 0 */ +#define ONLRET 0x0040 /* NL performs CR function */ #endif /*_POSIX_SOURCE */ /* -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL

Re: ipsend and iptest compile error

2000-12-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
(*o)) == -1) ...which I sent to Darren yesterday evening could be applied. I haven't heard back however. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ing and enticing them to use it and give us feedback. :) So can you commit this? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: buildkernel target breaks on pcivar.h

2000-12-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001212 03:32] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone else seeing this for the last two days in the buildkernel target? I see annoying breakage when compiling with -j, are you using it? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
o conflict between these two efforts and since one seems pretty much completed, I'd like to see it in the base system. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: last changes in sys/kern/sysv_*.c in CURRENT and Squid 2.4

2000-12-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
+++ sysv_msg.c 2000/12/05 16:57:34 @@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ NULL }; +SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER(msgsys, 6); SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER(msgctl, 3); SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER(msgget, 2); SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER(msgsnd, 4); -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the

Re: system hangs ... not sure how to debug ...

2000-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and hook your laptop up to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: system hangs ... not sure how to debug ...

2000-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001127 21:56] wrote: * The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001127 18:12] wrote: Morning all ... Every since the SMPng code went into -current way back when, I've been experiencing hangs ... and am not quite sure how to debug this. I'm

Re: world broken: mbuf.h:120: `MSIZE' undeclared here

2000-11-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ldn't it just be required that one include sys/mbuf.h before this include file? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-11-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
has even seen fit to comment on it yet :-(. This patch may break compliance, ENOEXEC is the proper error code, the shell should try to be a bit smarter about explaining why ENOEXEC was returned. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I

Re: CURRENT is freezing again ...

2000-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Steven E. Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001116 09:27] wrote: It seems to only do it SMP... the same machine built with a non-SMP kernel (same source code) runs just fine for extended periods. John just checked in some code last night that may address your problems. I would try a new kernel, and

Re: fetch

2000-11-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001115 03:39] wrote: Hello, i'm using libfetch. I want to get a file in passive mode in my local disk. If I read trace from the remote machine, the transfert is okay but i can't find my new imported file in the local disk. Can you help me to find

Re: umount -f busted

2000-11-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
who broke it. Maybe you can sprinkle some printfs in the code and narrow it down a bit? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ding rumor, innuendo and FUD. Machines go down, networks go down, deal with it! thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
mind that at all. if "piss off" is an exceptable answer here, then I'd like for u to say so. Tony, you have a remarkable way of putting things into perspective, and I couldn't have said it better myself. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the h

Re: downgrade?

2000-10-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
then doing several 'make -k installworld' followed by a 'make installworld' to make sure it's all been installed then by building a kernel using the "make buildkernel" method described in src/UPDATING. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of

Re: downgrade?

2000-10-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Salvo Bartolotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001007 12:14] wrote: Original Message On 10/7/00, 12:13:28 PM, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: downgrade?: * Philipp Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001007 04:08] wrote: hi! is it possible to downgrade a freebsd-current

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the automatic reboot??? Gdb anyone? Sure, send patches, follow my previous advice or simply piss off. jeez, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. I think without their application of knowledge and smack-down I wouldn't have learned nearly as much. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
;go away"? Don't be rude to a developer offering good advice, if you're unable to follow his instructions on how to provide a crashdump you shouldn't be running -current or you should at least ask nicely. And -current is covered in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Tony Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000927 18:26] wrote: OK Well Here is the issue. If I put in the 2 boot floppies I get a page fault 12 after I press Q for "quit" on the visual kernel config. If I can save a crash dump before any FS's are mounted or even before I tell FBSD where to put the

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
will arrive later). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 1131 unneeded includes in the kernel...

2000-09-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000919 23:51] wrote: UNNEEDED #includes in the FreeBSD kernel agp_if.c sys/kernel.h [snip] These reports would be a lot more useful if you included the last person to touch these files along with the first line of the Copyright.

Re: Initial installation console

2000-09-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000920 12:46] wrote: Can the configuration for bootup and initial installation be configured to detect (and configure) a serial console. This would be very useful for rackmount systems. Yes, I know it can be done manually after the installation is

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000824 14:52] wrote: I don't know if this is related to the problems you guys are looking at, but I have a box that every so often (every couple of months) panics with a "panic: recieve 1" panic. This panic happens when the socket character count is bogus

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem, this was probably an issue before I touched it but since I touched it last I'll have a look-see. Brian, does that makes sense? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 14:29] wrote: I have a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem, this was probably an issue before I touched it but since I touched it last I'll have a look-see. Brian, does that makes sense? So far

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:03] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John can you try this patch and let us know if you still experiance crashes? Will do. I'll let you know what happens. Let's take a more paraniod approach

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:39] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's take a more paraniod approach (back out my spl in chgsbsize): Index: uipc_socket2.c Nope, that doesn't fix it. I got the same panic on the very

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:55] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, that doesn't fix it. I got the same panic on the very first try. hmm, when does it happen? During the transfer or at the end of the transfer

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 22:05] wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 14:29] wrote: I have a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem

Re: Patch test review: vop_stdaccess()

2000-08-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000816 14:52] wrote: Please test and review this patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/vop_stdaccess.patch Not tested, but looks good, I'd like to see it applied. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: [Fwd: Killing slapd on FreeBSD 4.1]

2000-08-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000815 10:39] wrote: Apparently, the threads library still hasn't been fixed? Follow the link for the patch. I'm testing the change now and I'll commit it soon. Index: Makefile === RCS file:

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000807 23:15] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously the waker-upper knows that the condition is true. Otherwise the existing code which doesn't check wouldn't work. In the expensive cases the waker-upper

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000805 08:49] wrote: Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown by a few boring seconds. With this patch, it is zippier. I expect people to complain

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000807 01:25] wrote: * Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000805 08:49] wrote: Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown by a few boring seconds.

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* j mckitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000802 06:38] wrote: A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? There's rumors of some "problem" chipsets, but afaik 66 has been working for quite some

Re: DOS emulation

2000-08-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Piotr Wo?niak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000801 08:21] wrote: Hi, I have to run programs in Clipper/DOS under FreeBSD. Does exist a good DOS-emulator or other solving of this problem? (for example compiling source code in Clipper under FreeBSD..) Maybe 'doscmd'? Let us know. :) -Alfred To

libexec/rtld-elf install broken?

2000-07-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
boggles! -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: libexec/rtld-elf install broken?

2000-07-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000719 17:45] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === libexec/rtld-elf chflags noschg /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 chflags noschg /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1.old cp -p /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so

Re: libexec/rtld-elf install broken?

2000-07-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000719 18:32] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: I needed to add 'cp' to src/Makefile.inc1, Marcel explained it to me Oh, so it was "cp" that wasn't found, I take it. We should change the message in make so it's more like what shells say

Re: Build broken?

2000-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000715 07:29] wrote: The build broke this morning, and is still broken as of a few moments ago. The problem is that systat tries to use the (apparently now missing) m_mtypes element of the mbstat structure: su-2.04# pwd /usr/src/usr.bin/systat su-2.04# make

Network install HOWTO available.

2000-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Ok guys it's a _very_ rough HOWTO, but patches (not comments!) would be appreciated: How to install FreeBSD via Intel's netboot (PXE) http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ enjoy. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I

Re: regex(3)

2000-07-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the original test suit for Spencer's library. I'd like, thus, to merge the changes. If anyone have objections, please raise them now. :-) None other than waiting at least 2 weeks, or for 4.1 to come out. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a

Re: about Kern/15436

2000-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000707 16:18] wrote: Michael C. Wu wrote: Will you consider looking at : http://dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de/~olli/propellers/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15436 It is an additional functionality and should not pose a

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000705 00:04] wrote: I've tried to update the document to reflect the comments I've received so far: Current directory structure: sys/ ${MACHINE}/ - MD stuff conf/ - MD kernel config files [gag, snip] Here is my

Re: Questions about kmem_malloc and SPL levels

2000-06-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
private map then you'd only really need splbio wrapped around the call. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

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