Re: spin lock panic ...

2001-03-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
find, nor does LINT ... ctrl+alt+esc. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: [FIX] Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ke to understand what's going on here. There's also a chance someone will jump in with the answer you're looking for. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: devfs+vinum trouble

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I don't have anything more than this. >But they seem to be harmless. > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Index: vinumconfig.c Applied, thank you

Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
superuser > 10928305672udp 0.0.0.0.11.233 - superuser Any of you folks tried recompiling CFS? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: devfs+vinum trouble

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ot;vinum/control") > >It doesn't matter if I have devfs compiled in or not. > >And I get similars during kldunload. > > > > It's on an i386 based system with source from 21th March. > > > Same here. > T USERS MORE INFO PLZ K THNX. -- -Alfre

*** HEADSUP keyserv might be broken ***

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
There's rumors that something is broken in keyserv, if someone can get me a good diagnostics on how to reproduce the failure/problem I should be able to fix it. Of course patches are welcome as well. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a pie

Re: yppasswdd_server.c:692: redefinition of `struct cmessage'

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
s well as > /usr/src/usr.sbin/rpc.yppasswdd/yppasswdd_server.c:692. > > Maybe I won't build -CURRENT for a little while :-} Don't worry, ru fixed it, I'm about to undo the whole schebang because sys/socket.h shouldn't have this definition. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
t; > mount_nfs: rpcbind on server: RPC: Program not registered Have you run mergemaster? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumul

** HEADS UP **

2001-03-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
about the BABUG meeting on Thursday? There's gonna be a film crew from IBM-Linux there and a tutorial on netbooting. http://www.bafug.net/meetings/NextMeetingBerk.html -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: patch /bin/ls again, for mb supporting.

2001-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
lse { > + p += sz; > + while(sz--) > + *ri++ = '?'; Why didn't you use strlcpy/memcpy as suggested? > + } > + } > + } > + *ri

Re: Funny bug-of-the-day

2001-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I Mean) > interfaces! :-) I think only because you have "freebsd.org" in your "search" directive. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: libdevstat

2001-03-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
CLI tool for it, like iostat > or somethink else. > > Another idea? I think what he's saying is that libdevstat is OK, it's just that the tools that use it sum up the stats instead of displaying them inidividually. I would look at fixing iostat because libdevstat seems to pro

Re: building perl 5.6.0 with `-DPERL_POLLUTE'

2001-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
er not keep other people's cruft in our system. It will eventually go away, and the longer we keep it as a crutch, the more people are going to be hurt by it when/if it disappears completely. Those people need to fix thier modules. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PRO

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: > >&

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 >

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
r-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Sep 26 1999 vinumdrive0 -> /dev/da1e > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Sep 26 1999 vinumdrive1 -> /dev/da2s1e > > > > Ok, now is there a way to get rid of these symlinks when vinum goes > > away? Ok, if there isn't a way to delete them

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

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: > > >

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ys are in docco mode, you might as well document how one detects a devfs system in a running 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

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 l

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 02:29] wrote: > > I'll sneak in my experience with DEVFS+vinum here as well: > > vinum: loaded > vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da3s1f > vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da1s1e > vinum: updating configuration from /dev

Re: SSLeay refuses to build.

2001-03-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ay build will not accept > /usr/bin, /usr/bin/, 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 - [[E

Re: some proposals about nfsd(8)

2001-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
; Second, I'd like to have this 'nfsd -r' removed, cause > it's broken in the concept anyway and useless. Kill nfsd and > restart does the same, and the binding is done the right way. I'd like to kill 'nfsd -r' however it makes more sense to fix -r so

Re: known problem with certain programs freezing in state "poll"?

2001-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ple of hours ago that ought to fix this. You should cvsup then rebuild and reinstall libc and libc_r. -- -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. I

Re: USER_LDT gone?

2001-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
removed. Why are you 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: 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): >

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

vinum fix take 2

2001-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
h _still_ works 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: Do we need a 3. level between stable and cuurent?

2001-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
he date of the last >known version without known major problems. (or "." if 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

please test, vinum + devfs

2001-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ME]; /* name of subdisk */ +dev_t dev; }; /*** Plex definitions ***/ @@ -498,6 +499,7 @@ u_int64_t multistripe; /* requests that needed more than one stripe */ int sddowncount;

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! > &

Re: Fix for mountpath lenght

2001-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
roware AG, UNIX solution and service provider > Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland > Phone: +41 79 370 26 05, Fax: +41 61 826 93 01 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscrib

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

2001-02-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/ world target to check for cross version upgrades and do the magic (or at least print out those instructions). -- -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: 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.diff

Re: Is -CURRENT in bad shape?

2001-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
it for a couple of hours/days? Current from 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.

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 &

Re: OpenSSL ASM patch

2001-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-5x speed up, I'd really like to see it committed 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;

Re: Current SMP Kernel panics

2001-02-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ooks correct, need_resched() needs sched_lock. I'm currently looking to see if forward_roundrobin() does as well. -- -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
x27;re limited to 24 bits. > 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

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

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

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]|[

Re: > 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
es, it's been a long time since I looked at this, if I can find it again I might be able 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

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

Re: > 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
't let it go! I was hoping to replace my Solaris box with either > FreeBSD or NetBSD as my main home directory server. FreeBSD 4.2 panics part > way through the first LADDIS runs I was using to test it with and I can't get > NetBSD to start as a LADDIS client (I hadn't go

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 da

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

2001-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
_r.so.5, > you'll need to rebuild 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,

Re: mountd changed?

2001-01-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
cently. > > > > this /etc/exports file was working fine a couple of weeks ago. > > Is this related to the 'ucred' thing people have been talking about? > > Possibly, are your kernel and world out of sync? You should've gotten > evil console messages about try

Re: a panic from recent changes...

2001-01-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
from userland this weekend, but you can have a shot at it if you'd like. The other option is to 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 hear

Re: current panics in mount(2)

2001-01-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
re `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?

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ces 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? -- -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: 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. Remem

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 st

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
gt; > Then you misunderstood me, I don't have 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. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have th

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 w

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 plac

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 > >> > >> Mat

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 > /

HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

2001-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. I plan on applying 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: Atomic breakage?

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
operations (hint: no 64-bit atomic operations are > implemented on i386's). If they need to be atomic, then they must use > locks. 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

Re: HEADSUP! New netgraph code coming

2001-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
e wasn't sufficient then. > Whatever.. developers should pay more attention and committers should > be more 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_

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.

Re: number of processes forked since boot

2001-01-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Hajimu UMEMOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010115 10:00] wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to obtain number of processes forked since boot from userland. > So, I made a patch to intend to commit. > Any comment? Why not just use a dynamic sysctl for this? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EM

Re: Kernel source

2001-01-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html (read the entire chapter) > I am 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

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 a

Re: Running Linux kernel modules.

2001-01-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
st pass into all operations (fileops) on that file. It's not a major rewrite of any code, you just need an extra parameter per fileop 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: Running Linux kernel modules.

2001-01-12 Thread &#x27;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: > > > > > > &

possible fix for gdb hanging the kernel

2000-12-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
psignal(p, SIGCONT); mtx_exit(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN); + psignal(p, SIGCONT); } else { mtx_exit(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN); if (uap->data) { -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: termios.h patch for review

2000-12-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
0x0008 /* discard EOT's (^D) on output) */ > +#define OCRNL0x0010 /* map CR to NL on output */ > +#define ONOCR0x0020 /* no CR output at column 0 */ > +#define ONLRET 0x0040 /* NL performs C

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
t we'd have enough feedback to begin ironing out the kinks. I want this in the user's faces, taunting 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: ipsend and iptest compile error

2000-12-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
)calloc(1, sizeof(*o) * (fd->fd_lastfile + 1)); if (KMCPY(o, fd->fd_ofiles, (fd->fd_lastfile + 1) * sizeof(*o)) == -1) ...which I sent to Darren yesterday evening could be applied. I haven't heard back however. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "

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 PROTE

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
do with -CURRENT, don't install it." > Combined with the point that we should not divert efforts from libh, > I hold the opinion that we should not import this. I think it should be brought in and quickly MFC'd for the next 4.3 release. I see no conflict between these two effor

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

2000-12-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
n/sysv_msg.c,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -u -r1.27 sysv_msg.c --- sysv_msg.c 2000/12/01 08:57:45 1.27 +++ 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); SYSCA

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 experie

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

2000-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
his? Serial console, add BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER (sp?) to your kernel config 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: world broken: mbuf.h:120: `MSIZE' undeclared here

2000-11-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
L */ > #include > > My machines are churning through a make world right now.. Ick, shouldn'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

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-11-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ts *much* saner, and no > one 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 ha

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, an

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

Re: umount -f busted

2000-11-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
x27;t stuck in disk wait, but they still returned EBUSY. > > Force means force, damnit! Yes, this used to work quite well for some time, I have no idea who broke it. Maybe you can sprinkle some printfs in the code and narrow it down a bit? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAI

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
intain a releng4 mirror, I really wouldn't 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 -

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
rtians from area 51. They're requesting that people stop blowing smoke and spreading 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.&qu

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 <[EMA

Re: downgrade?

2000-10-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
sr/obj over to your -current 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 PRO

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the same time offering extremely useful advice. Jordan, Mike Smith and John Polstra to name a few, all in one incident actually. I think without their application of knowledge and smack-down I wouldn't have learned nearly as much. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PR

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
current. > I have a better idea, how about an option on the install to save buffer > cache to a floppy disk , or atleast the portion that caused the automatic > reboot??? Gdb anyone? Sure, send patches, follow my previous advice or simply piss off. jeez, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[E

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 > p

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
rashdump 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 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: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
l running at the equivelant of splhigh, all interrupts are blocked until a context switch in kernel land. There's work in progress to mpsafe the drivers (at least for ethernet, more 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: 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 i

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 > > [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. -Alfred

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 bogu

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

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,

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

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

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. > >

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

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ny time soon. > I'll append my kernel config file to this mail. The system is a > uniprocessor PII/400. 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'l

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