On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:08:26 +0100, Dominic Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
% export HTTP_AUTH="basic:SunSolve Online:x:y"
% fetch -v http://online.sunsolve.sun.co.uk/whatever
senddoc: cannot authenticate with server
Looking at the code it appears that there isn't a way to escape the
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:30:38 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is also something that should be changed since we are to modify
things anyway, it introduces un-needed delays (and jitter) in the
interrupt delivery.
Plus, the resource manager has built-in hooks to manage
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
During recent installs using the 7/26 snap, I noticed that the
transfer rate for the "ports" distribution was about twice as fast as
SNAPs from the beginning of the month.
I was wondering what to attribute this
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Here are some tasks which could put an evening or more to
productive and educational use for interested kernel hackers.
But by all means, if you start on one of these, TELL someone about it,
eh?
-GAWollman
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:40:49 -0600, Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How would this be different than a packet filter on inbound
connections?
It would work in open network environments.
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:04:31 -0700, Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue :
open("pci0:10:0", .)
Don't be silly.
On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration
to an actual major ,
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:51:29 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[Quoting somebody unidentified, presumably Warner:]
Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus hooks? I've migraded a couple
of uses in pccard to using that now that I have newbus node to hang
them off of...
APM is only
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:48 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Actually, that's almost entirely system-dependant. The BIOS may well
poll the keyboard controller/USB controller, for example.
And designs based on the Intel PIIX4 will generate SMI# interrupts for
whichever activities
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 21:34:09 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The enumerator should assign these resources to a placeholder; I was
thinking the nexus was as good an owner as any. If there's an
"unknown" device that's probably even better.
Some of them should be claimed by real
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:08:21 -0400 (EDT), Peter Dufault [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is a particularly safe implementation typedef,
since I don't anticipate uint64_t ever being used in a future specification
as a different data type.
I don't know about ANSI.
It's in C9x.
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:51:41 -0400 (EDT), Peter Dufault [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
/* Now just insert the macros to make this work...
*/
I'd be inclined to make sigemptyset() and sigfillset(), at a minimum,
functions only (not macros).
I'd define sigaddset something like this (function
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:03:35 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Known problems:
Building world fails because the freshly built cpp segfaults. A setjmp call
that may be involved matches the problem of a return address being 0. gdb
does not display a complete backtrace...
The
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:03:35 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
kernel/userland - http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcel/signal.diff
There appear to be some fairly gratuitous name changes in here.
Also, my own feeling is that it would be better to continue to use
integral types
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:33:16 -0400 (EDT), I misspoke thusly:
It's true that this would (currently) slow down uthreads.
Actually, uthreads uses the signal-preserving versions (setjmp and
longjmp), so it's already entering the kernel on every context switch.
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On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:34:06 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The setjump/longjump family of functions are userland function
AFAICT.
POSIX doesn't make any such distinction. Remember that setjmp/longjmp
*already* enter the kernel, in order to save/restore the signal mask,
so
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:06:51 -0700, Jason Nordwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Wouldn't you hose uthread performance? I thought that one of the major
benefits it that a context switch in uthreads did not require kernel
intervention and a syscall.
It's true that this would (currently) slow down
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:40:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Wight) said:
Isn't it inconsistent behavior that a non-root user can reboot or shutdown
the machine with 'shutdown', yet only root can use 'halt' and 'reboot'?
No, not at all. Operators can shut the machine down gracefully, but
only
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:41:08 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What's wrong is that you're being stupid.
There is no call for such rudeness in the FreeBSD mailing-lists,
particularly from someone as centrally involved as you, Mike.
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just to avoid duplicated effort: I currently have work in progress
on a "fslog" pseudo-device. It enables you to monitor a filesystem
and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:16:52 + (GMT), Adam Strohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've been getting this too on 4.0-C, just rebuild last night, still there.
top displays:
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0%
idle
On my dual-PPro Intel BB440FX system I am not
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:08:10 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The point is that it _does_ hurt. Anything above -O3 is _likely_ to
have bugs.
And more to the point: the FreeBSD Project will not support those who
compile their kernel or world with anything other than the
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:17:48 -0400, Jim Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I believe this must be fixed.
There is no way it can be ``fixed''. That's Just The Way It Is. I'm
sorry that you're having a problem with this. Nobody ever said
keeping -current would be easy.
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:51:37 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If it is broken, please back out the signal changes or fix the tools
target.
No, Rod, just Deal With It(tm).
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:22:47 +0200, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something here, but isn't
having /tmp on the root filesystem just inviting a denial-of-service
attack on yourself?
Only if you let random lusers log in to your machine.
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:01:43 +0200, Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
majordomo is crap it seems, the freebsd mailing lists should switch
over to ezmlm-idx/qmail... *THAT* works 100% reliable.
Bull$#!^. I run a couple of fairly large mailing-lists under
majordomo, and nobody ever gets
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt
it..
Probably not. The hardware is just so transcendently evil that it's
unlikely it could be made to work reliably for more than one or
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:55:11 +0200, German Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there a more elegant way than to get the real adress and
use inb ?
You need to allocate resources for each distinct, non-contiguous range
of ports separately.
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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:55:21 -0400, "Patrick Bihan-Faou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is going in the right direction, but here is a question (and I don't
have the answer). Is it so much more easier to create new compile time
directive than to go the extra step and use packages where they are
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:09:54 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The lsof functionality should in my opinion be added to the system,
and the necessary hooks should be added to the kernel using sysctl.
fstat(1).
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:54:02 -0700, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
fstat(1) does not have the functionality (that is now missing) that
people have come to expect from LSOF.
...which is?
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:27:48 -0400, Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ohci0: OPTi 82C861 (FireLink) USB controller irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci0
+ohci_waitintr: timeout
IRQ 9 is shared with the VGA controller. Perhaps calling the VESA
BIOS caused it to do something strange that
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:41:28 -0800, Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set
to the originating mailing list?
Because that would be an incredibly obnoxious (I would even say
asinine) thing to do. If I want to make a reply to the list,
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:01:45 +0100, Pierre Beyssac [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maybe I can at least commit the addition of "volatile" to the source
code. That will work around that particular bug until egcs is
fixed...
It's not a compiler bug, it's a source code bug.
The C Language specifies
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:01:10 +0800, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
root cron 2180 - -none-
root cron 2181 - -none-
root cron 2182 - -none-
root adjkerntz 400 -
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:59:28 -0500 (EST), Luoqi Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hmm, good point. So I still need to find a way to start up rc5des, it seems
that rc5des installs a SIGHUP handler and therefore nohup is
useless.
Bug the authors to fix it? daemon(3) is provided for a reason!
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 23:12:19 +0800, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IMHO: Either change su to use '-' or forget about it.. I don't recall
whether csh/tcsh attribute anything magic to having the leading "-" or
not..
Same thing as every other shell: a leading `-' means that the shell is
a
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:58:40 -0800 (PST), John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[quoting me:]
What does `netstat -ran' say? You're not seeing all the routes
without the `-a' flag.
It lists some additional routes with -a, but not many. Here's the
latest output (still growing, as you can
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:33:14 -0500 (EST), Brian Fundakowski Feldman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
#define SNPARGS(buf, len) buf + len, sizeof(buf) len ? sizeof(buf) - len : 0
char action2[32], proto[47], name[18], fragment[17];
/* Print command name */
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 03:29:16 -0500 (EST), "Matthew N. Dodd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What is really needed here is for the resource manager to handle
'requests' as well as allocations.
It does. That's the difference between `allocate' and `activate'.
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On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:55:43 -0500 (EST), Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Yes, it is a SMP box, and yes, the devices work fine. I just thought it was odd
that the kernel would report incorrect ones.
They are not incorrect. SMP uses a different interrupt system.
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Last week I decided to blow away my newer laptop's ancient 4.3
installation (well, actually, Lose XP decided to do it for me, but
that's another story). I had just gotten my complimentary developer's
CD set from FreeBSDmall.com (thanks, guys!) and decided to reinstall
everything from scratch.
So
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:55:55 -0800, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
/boot/loader though is a different story. 'make installkernel' does not
install the new loader. However, most non-ancient 4.x loaders can
boot a 5.x kernel sufficiently well that this shouldn't be a crisis. Or,
they
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:51:31 -0800, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The temperatures are in kelvin * 10. ie: subtract 2731 to get degrees
celcius, then divide by 10. In my case above: 3281 - 2731 = 550, or 55.0C.
Cool. I just wasted an hour hacking up xload to make it display
temperature
Has anyone managed to make one of these work? I get the following
messages:
cardbus1: Expecting link target, got 0x59
cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=100
cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400
cardbus1: unknown card (vendor=0x1737, dev=0xab09) at 0.0 irq 11
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:52:22 -0500 (EST), John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I used to use one. The dc(4) driver was broken a while back and
now has issues with this card that it didn't used to have, but it
should mostly work (it just needs to be ifconfig'd down and up when
it freezes
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:01:54 -0700 (MST), M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think I don't understand what you are saying at all. It doesn't
seem top jive with the rest of the messages in this thread.
Of course not, it's Terry ``Irrelevant Tangent'' Lambert you're taking about.
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:29:16 -0500 (EST), Garrett Wollman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[rude snipe deleted...]
Sorry, that was un-called-for (and was intended to be a private
message to Warner).
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On 11 Nov 2002 13:31:36 +0100, Marc Recht [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is needed for some programs. For example for Python 2.3cvs sets
(among others) _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199506L, but also expects to have chroot
and friends.
Then it's wrong. If it doesn't want a POSIX environment (evidently
not
On 11 Nov 2002 17:56:08 +0100, Marc Recht [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm thinking more of it like an aggregation. IMHO it should be possible,
if the user wants to, to get POSIX 199506 and BSD.
That would be very difficult, since FreeBSD never supported that
version (indeed, never even claimed
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:54:58 -0500, Mike Barcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
/* 1003.2-1992 */
-#if __POSIX_VISIBLE = 199209
+#if __POSIX_VISIBLE = 199209 || __XSI_VISIBLE
size_tconfstr(int, char *, size_t);
int getopt(int, char * const [], const char *);
__XSI_VISIBLE should
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:49:05 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But why not just this?
static __inline void
__fd_zero(fd_set *p, __size_t n)
{
memset(p-fds_bits, 0, _howmany(n, _NFDBITS));
}
Because a declaration of memset() is not permitted in
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:07:22 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks, that's what I was expecting. The attached patch provides the
following behavior:
sleep 0 = exit 0 immediately
sleep [ \t]*1 = sleep 1 second
sleep [ \t]*\.2zzz = sleep .2 seconds
sleep [ \t]*-.* =
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:26:44 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So sleep -1 should sleep for ~0UL seconds? And should usage() ever be
called then?
Well, the standard says that anything might happen as a result of
`sleep -- -1'. I'm just pointing out why the standard says so.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:51:59 +0100, Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'm concerned about the used character: -r is similiar to -R
Yes, `-r' would be a very poor choice for the reason you state.
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:08:49 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It's described in the file itself. Can you please file a PR about the
missing manpage documentation?
make.conf is no longer installed in -current. A user trying to
understand why some glop is being added automatically
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:31:28 -0600, Brian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is this the recommended method of preventing these problems?
The recommended method of preventing these problems generally is to
use POSIX semaphores (or other POSIX synchronization mechanisms
appropriate to threaded
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:07:49 -0600, Sean Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Actually it is the 'c' slice that is generally used to indicate the whole
disk. This is still the case in 5.0. However, I am unable to tell you what
'd' used to represent. I am also clueless on this particular detail.
No,
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:39:22 +0800, kai ouyang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I don't know why the 'c' partition doesn't start at 0.
It is strange.
For backwards compatibility, the FreeBSD 4.x kernel would fake up the
partition tables so that they would look like old (pre-slicing)
FreeBSD partition
lock order reversal
1st 0xc37e7a68 vnode interlock (vnode interlock) @ ../../../kern/vfs_subr.c:939
2nd 0xc043d720 vm page queue mutex (vm page queue mutex) @ ../../../vm/vm_kern.c:424
ident says:
/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:
$FreeBSD: src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c,v 1.419 2002/10/26 14:38:21 rwatson
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:26:49 -0700 (MST), M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
may != MUST. We do not pollute the name space. Providing additional
facilities pollutes the name space, breaking strictly conforming
programs.
Not necessarily. The Standard reserves certain namespaces for the
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:09:46 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've noticed this too with fxp. It only happens while in ddb and I
thought it was my fault (I was debugging some networking problems).
It happens when the NIC's receive queue fills up. When you're in DDB,
the
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:41:16 -0800, Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So, is there some mechanism I am missing? Is there a layer between the
application calling sem_open and the kernel receiving the parameters
that strips it down to the last component? If there is a higher level
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:47 -0500, Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So apart from the leading slash character, nothing is mentioned about
embedded slashes in the semaphore name. What's the right behavior
for FreeBSD then?
The reason why the standard is written that way was to allow
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:05:45 -0800, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sem_openapropos=0sektion=0manpath=SunOS+5.7format=html
BZZT!
Appeal to irrelevant authority.
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800, Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it
wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.)
Because it starts at the end of the specified partition and works its
way backwards. (The hope is to
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:26:22 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now you are forcing me to go to core. It's absolutely ridiculous and
you know it. Goddamn it, next time I won't even bother posting if all
I get is this sort of crap.
All the better, if you refuse
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:41:26 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If people are reasonable with me, I am reasonable right back. If
people are unreasonable, they shouldn't expect me to be reasonable
in response. It's really that simple.
As a FreeBSD developer, you
On 17 Dec 2002 16:35:50 -0600, Ryan Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm wondering what it's doing because it isn't copying over ports
very fast.
It's slow because it's creating lots of very small directories.
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:40:25 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Isn't there a pretty obvious race between the revoke() and the open() ?
To the extent that the race matters, it is obviated by making sure
that only the current user has permission to open the device. If the
user
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:43:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There is no way you can close the race between:
revoke(/dev/ttyfoo);
and
open(/dev/ttyfoo);
Not even in init(8). There is always the risk that another process
opens the device between the two.
If that process
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:34:04 -0500 (EST), Matthew N. Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I just installed RC2 using a 3C574B with the 'ep' driver; worked just fine
aside from needing to re-roll kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to support OLDCARD.
My 3C589D works just fine in 5-current with NEWCARD.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:22:58 +0200, Andy Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
#if defined(QT_THREAD_SUPPORT) defined(_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS)
This conditional is erroneous, so you should definitely bug Troll Tech.
It should instead read:
#if defined(QT_THREAD_SUPPORT)
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:47:33 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maybe we can convince them / submit patches to use mmap() based shared
memory (file-backed), which we can now do efficiently with the
MAP_NOSYNC option.
Even better would be POSIX shared memory.
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:46:13 -0500, Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It takes no more than a well-designed operating system service to
ensure that badly written programs don't fail to release resources
when they crash.
Unfortunately, the System V shared-memory API is brain-damaged
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:06:19 +, Paul Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We could create a new include file that we use for constants that are
related to FreeBSD specific types or we can agree on a coding style for
performing bounds checking using tricks like ((uid_t)0-1)
Or we can do it
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:59:50 +0100 (CET), Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
can you clarify this ? Looong ago i used the '586 on a bridge and it did let
me write the MAC header...
The 82586 has a mode bit which selects one of two possibilities:
1) The transmit command specifies the
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:22:08 +0900, Yoshinobu Inoue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
echo 24.113.25.85 | sed -e s/"\."/" "/g | awk '{$5 = $1*256 + $2; $6 = $3*256 +
$4; printf "2002:%x:%x:\n", $5, $6}'
Or, without only one extra process:
myaddr=24.113.25.85
OIFS="$IFS"
IFS=".$IFS"
set $myaddr
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:26 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
NO. I will not apply this link. BSD has always had a "f77" command. It
has not always had a "g77" command. The G77 developers should have
installed a "f77" compatability link. It is their fault this misspelling
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:36 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
*IF* I understand what you are trying to say, here is my answer: if I
were to start fresh with with bringing in the first C compiler into
FreeBSD, it would not have a 'gcc' name to it -- only 'cc'.
Indeed, that was
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:53:43 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in
the driver architecture nor any of my testing that would suggest this is
actually the case at this point.
As of about four years ago, the relative
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:56:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce A. Mah) said:
Here's what's supported:
fpa(4), fea(4) - Device Drivers for DEC FDDI Controllers
fpa is a PCI card, fea is EISA.
Note that finding any FDDI hardware these days is getting to be quite
expensive. The manufacturers
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:43:54 -0800 (PST), Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You can't use a foreign plugin with a native freebsd
netscape..unfortunately there aren't many plugins available in native
format - this is a good reason to use the linux version.
Or not (depending on your
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:03:18 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
When the program is run, if you ping the IP address from the
local machine, it sees packets. However, if you ping it from
a remote machine, it doesn't see packets.
The ICMP never passes certain packets up to raw
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:36:22 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think so. I can give -current a quick synopsis of the plan but I've
probably forgotten some of the bits (note: the points below are not
in any particular order):
Cool! Sounds like you've really
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:03:07 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[Quoting my original description of icmp_input()'s behavior:]
The ICMP never passes certain packets up to raw listeners. These
include ECHO REQUEST, TIMESTAMP REQUEST, and SUBNET MASK REQUEST
packets -- but not
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:11:30 -0800, Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
fpsetmask(3) also exists on Solaris.
fpsetmask(3) was copied from System V.
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:52:39 -0800, Arun Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
However, I can think of two situations under which it might have to
be a system call:
I'm fairly certain I found a circumstance which required that it be
available to a system call, but I can't remember quite what it was.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:12:32 -0500 (EST), Steve Kiernan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The definitions of major() and minor() in sys/systm.h break usage of the
header. Since sys/types.h defines major() and minor() as macros which
compute the major and minor numbers, this creates an order dependency
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:25:29 -0800, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What do you guys think about that? Am I totally missing something
that makes the Linux way right/ok? (no locking on a 64bit struct)
Generally, it's better to design an optimistic or non-blocking
algorithm rather
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:10:59 -0500 (CDT), Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It's probably more accurate, but from a PR standpoint it makes it "look"
like FreeBSD is choking under the load, when it really isn't.
Actually, you have it backwards -- it makes it look as if FreeBSD is
*not* choking
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:08:17 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Someone more acquainted with the daily scripts may want to
investigate/fix that.
In the general case, it's hopeless.
-GAWollman
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:35:44 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm not sure I follow this.
This subject has come up before in that tape quirks are really busted, etc..
I don't believe sysctl (at least in the form Brad suggested) is at all
the right model. Rather, the kernel
Thanks to the generosity of Rob Seastrom, the disk space available to
ftp5.freebsd.org has grown tenfold. As a result, the mirror is now
more complete than it was before, and finally has a complete
4.0-RELEASE installation and package distribution for both Alpha and
Intel architectures,
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:37:21 -0400, Ted Sikora [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any ideas as to the cause of the following errors in current.
Harmless.
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:58:49 +0300, Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Looks like *really* nice idea. This would allow to solve "stale
modules" problem at minimal cost.
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away... (well, OK, seven years ago, in
FreeBSD 1.0) I was working on developing a
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:45:20 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine"
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to include support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus
machines in existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and
AFAIK, the only MCA disk controller supported does SCSI.
-GAWollman
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:06:42 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OK. Thanks, I wanted some opinions, and I guess I have enough to satisfy
me.
I'd like to add that it can be particularly important when legal
questions arise. Should some submarine patent cover parts of
FreeBSD's
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:09:14 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You confuse the argument for SOME complete repositories with
the necessity that ALL (or at each most) repositories be so extensive.
You're welcome to remove whatever history you like from your personal
copy. It's
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:47:03 +0200, Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work
perfectly. Stick the files under CVS
No, that was not my proposal. I want to keep them out of CVS
entirely. CVS is Not Good at handling binary files
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:16:00 +0200, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In other words: if people did a local buildworld once on a -release
sourcetree will all the executables have the same MD5 as the ones on
the -release cdrom?
No.
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