On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
for that missing piece... The other part of the package is usenetfs
-- file system to improve performance of large article directories.
Could this raise some interest?
News servers are one of FreeBSD niches. I'd say
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
Uh, no. Invariants are for developers who want to make sure their code
is correct. There is no reason why an end user would want to build a
kernel with invariants enabled. Invariants will *not* increase data
safety. If they have any effect at
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:48:57 -0500 (EST), Dan Swartzendruber
dru...@kersur.net said:
I have to concur. I've never understood the don't worry be happy
point of view on this issue.
Do you always compile and install all your programs
At 10:59 AM 3/6/99 -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
I make a habit of checking out any interesting kernel changes in full, and
one
thing I found in the recent diff by Mr. Wollman for kern_timeout.c is:
+void
+callout_init(c)
+ struct callout *c;
+{
+ bzero(c, sizeof c);
}
That doesn't
At 12:09 PM 2/1/99 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
I seem to remember there once was a comment in a well-known body of
code, which
went something like:
You are not supposed to understand this.
It was (IIRC) the process switching magic at the heart of fork() in V7 (and
earlier, I assume).
If I
At 03:46 PM 1/20/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
It looks like M_WAITOK will either return non-NULL or panic; it
shouldn't be capable of returning NULL. Ideally, it shouldn't panic
either (why is it only that M_WAITOK can panic, and M_NOWAIT can't?).
Because failures for M_NOWAIT are normal
