[Followups to -questions, please.]
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:58:00 +0200 (CEST), Riccardo Torrini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources
Keyboard controller.
unknown: PNP0f13 can't assign resources
PS/2 mouse port.
unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources
Serial
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:57:14 +0200 (CEST), Riccardo Torrini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
This means that I can remove this lines? Sure?
device atkbdc 1
No, I said nothing of the sort.
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:57:56 -0600, Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp
ids.
Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices
manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers
do, and
On Tue, 8 May 2001 23:31:51 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I followed everything here fine until you asserted that the debugger
shouldn't need any locks.
When the debugger is running, everything else should have been
forcibly halted.
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On Thu, 10 May 2001 12:40:42 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The process and signal-related structures may be inconsistent if the
debugger disregards existing locks held over those structures. It does
not matter if code is currently still executing, it matters that
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 22:43:00 -0700, Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We could make off_t a long long on the alpha. Otherwise the formats need:
printf(%lld, (long long) pos); /* or %qd to shut up the ANSI warning */
They always need that, until printf learns about the `j' width
specifier
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:28:29 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
3. Provide an alternative to qsort() that takes an comparison function
that takes an additional function pointer arg (use this arg to avoid
the global in (1)).
Actually, doing this would solve a number of
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:55:30 -0400, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why not do something like the rpc code does? Check if threaded, if
so cons up a thread specific key otherwise use a global.
The Standard does not appear to say whether qsort() is reentrant, but
I believe that it
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:33:07 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Here's an example of a complication: what is the semantics of /tmp/foo/bar
where foo is a symlink to ? I think the pathname resolves to
/tmp//bar and then to /tmp/bar, but this is surprising since foo doesn't
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:57:56 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maybe, but this doesn't seem to be permitted by POSIX.1-200x:
The response I got to a similar question about symbolic links suggests
that the definition of ``path name resolution'' is supposed to be the
final word on
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:24:19 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
POSIX explicitly disallow filenames everywhere. I think it should be
so for symlinks too.
But it doesn't, and that's the end of it for at least another five
years.
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:51:38 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
against problems on -current: my understanding is that -current users
know what they are doing, especially that they're living on the bleeding
edge and that they must be subscribed to current@ where they shall
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:40:23 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
NetBSD committed essentially this patch 4 years ago (as part of rev.1.23).
I like it, except it seems to be incompatible with POSIX.1-200x.
I think I agree with your interpretation. Quoting from XBDd7, page
101,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:35:17 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
./foo/ .//
./foo/bar .//bar
No, because the ``resulting filename'' begins with a slash.
It seems resulting filename (pathname?) begins with ./ (not a slash).
No, it doesn't. The
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:46:27 -0700 (PDT), Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
In anycase, I can't imagine that POSIX actually intended null
symlinks to act in any particular way
The standard specifies precisely how pathname resolution is supposed
to behave. FreeBSD should conform to the
On 18 Jun 2001 03:32:10 +0200, Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But telnet in historic BSD didn't have sra or any other authentication
mechanism that uses libmp. Or are you saying that we cannot change
`historical BSD software'?
No, I'm saying that the author of the SRA patches did
On 12 Jul 2001 22:40:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I might be wrong in many ways, but...
is it then mandatory that you `reset' SIGCHLD to SIG_DFL ?
Possibly. In the general case (as specified by standards), what
happens to SIGCHLD if it was set to SIG_IGN before exec()
I wrote:
The new POSIX draft, at least, sanctions the automatic reset of
SIGCHLD to SIG_DFL upon exec().
Terry Lambert appears to have written:
How does the NOHUP program continue to function in
light of this reset demand?
There is no ``demand'' involved. The behavior of the system when
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +0200, Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The next step is for someone to see how hard it is to provide libc hooks
for the DB 3.x functionality that nvi requires, without removing the
existing DB 1.x functionality that other subsystems require.
It's actually
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:13:14 +0900 (JST), Hajimu UMEMOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Current if_addmulti() calls MALLOC() with M_WAITOK. However,
if_addmulti() can be called from in[6]_addmulti() with splnet(). It
may lead kernel panic.
This is not a problem (or should not be). It is
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 03:19:32 -0700, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency in
the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of functional
code duplication.
I don't, particularly since the two programs which use it are
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:25:13 +0200, Ollivier Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The question I have is the following: authentication was done with md5 code
builtin and I disabled DES support (not supported anymore). Now, with 4.1,
it can be linked to openssl but it is still an optional component.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:03 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
However, the networking stack is being redone,
By whom? I haven't seen anything about this posted to -net.
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On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Usually it involves an NMI switch. :( Can you cvs (or cvsup) by dates on the
kernel sources to narrow down exactly what day (and possibly what commit)
causes these lockups? I.e., does it work fine on August 4th,
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:46 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I mean common part of international copyright law.
There is no such thing as ``international copyright law''. There is
only national copyright law. Parties to the various international
copyright conventions agree
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:35:11 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
No, author part of copyright can't be deattached, unless fraud happens.
Only if you live in a country whose legal system recognizes ``moral
rights''.
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In article c0a42b456769e22f908e689a1de56...@webmail.lerctr.org,
Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org wrote:
Error Message:
received 320KB stream in 1 seconds (320KB/sec)
receiving incremental stream of vault/var@2013-10-25 into
zroot/backups/TBH/var@2013-10-25
cannot receive incremental stream:
In article 20131221230448.ga61...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu,
Steve Kargl writes:
Other than the noise in /var/log/message, what does this provide
that 'pkg info' doesn't!
A record of when packages were installed and removed.
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In article 4e3d55fd.7090...@freebsd.org, nwhiteh...@freebsd.org writes:
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Whenever you add a /
partition on a partitioning scheme that requires a boot partition (APM,
GPT on some platforms), the installer asks you if you want to add a boot
In article 4fe340ff.80...@gmail.com, demelier.da...@gmail.com writes:
On 21/06/2012 14:55, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
It returns (size_t)(-1).
I don't know how is it correct, but this conforms to C spec.
Mm, if I understand well, since it is cast to size_t, I think the return
value will be
In article 20120712100110.ga34...@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net,
b...@freebsd.org writes:
- puppet support: (https://github.com/xaque208/puppet-pkgng)
I've actually already written one of these; it may be good to merge.
Would whoever is working on this please raise your hand?
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:12:59 +0200, Tijl Coosemans t...@freebsd.org said:
I think isnan(double) and isinf(double) in math.h should only be
visible if (_BSD_VISIBLE || _XSI_VISIBLE) __ISO_C_VISIBLE 1999.
For C99 and higher there should only be the isnan/isinf macros.
I believe you are
In article 20130714054840$7...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu,
dte...@freebsd.org writes:
How about rquery? What protocol does that use? and what does it talk to?
It accesses the sqlite database in /var/db/pkg that was previously
retrieved from the remote repository.
Question: Where can I learn more
In article 20130714064601$3...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu,
dte...@freebsd.org writes:
[I wrote:]
It accesses the sqlite database in /var/db/pkg that was previously
retrieved from the remote repository.
Now from what you explained of pkg, I'm worried that for bsdconfig:
1. Browse packages
In article 20130714191725.ga30...@stack.nl, jil...@stack.nl writes:
Apart from the annoyance of the restarts, automatic stopping and
starting is probably the best policy for having things just work. Some
daemons will crash or otherwise stop being useful when their files have
been deleted or
In article 530ea5cd.2070...@protected-networks.net,
i...@protected-networks.net writes:
sigh .. way back in the late 70's or maybe early 80's when I was
actually doing some work on compilers, we had a saying: produce correct
code even if it's not optimal or exit and tell the user why.
Producing
In article 533b3903.7030...@rancid.berkeley.edu,
mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu writes:
I have been using FreeBSD on the desktop since 1997,
Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the
desktop since, well, before it was called FreeBSD. It's still my
primary platform for nearly
In article 1396457629.2280.2.ca...@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com,
sbr...@freebsd.org writes:
I'd like to make this change to login.conf for default installs.
This removes some amount of hackery in the ports system that is working
around our lack of UTF-8 in the base.
I'm not sure what the
In article alpine.bsf.2.11.1407251459370.72...@wonkity.com you write:
Writing an article is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting
packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The
scope is known.
Indeed, it's pretty trivial.
I think the sort of article Craig was
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:57:04 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
NO. There are not patent problems until you *USE* the code.
That's not clear. See also ``contributory infringement''.
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On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 21:14:12 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In message 003001bf3f5d$1ff01780$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Leif Neland" writes:
Why isn't MAKEDEV installed by make (install)world?
I'm actually starting to wonder about that too...
Um, the correct question would have
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:15:07 -0800 (PST), Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So, what's the answer about what to do?
exec 3/dev/xx0
dislabel -W xx0
spam /dev/xx0
exec 3-
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | O
I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following
claim:
All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip
set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard
memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell
the
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:41:15 -0500, "Douglas Kuntz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
As others have stated, Socket370 boards arent all 810/810c...my 4.0-Current
The important issue to me is: will FreeBSD work on an 810 motherboard?
The reason I care is because I need the form-factor (a 1U-high
server);
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[Attribution lost.]
So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-)
Nope. You really need to think about the ISV's. Why do you think
Netscape is still a.out? ISV's want to produce one binary that runs
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:00:03 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree
regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become
aware that the sysctl space has changed?
It's listening on a kernel
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:49:27 -0500, Donn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
thing that was divided into two panes. On the left would be
LINT. Here, we would have icons representing the various
devices.
This is actually a really cool idea, although it needs a bit of
refinement, and we would
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:55:26 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
the IP and UDP checksum guessing, but more that I think you'll find that
a considerable amount of the inbound NFS traffic handling is actually
performed in the interrupt context
If it is, then there is a serious bug.
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:05:30 -0500 (EST), "John W. DeBoskey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This happens very randomly - 1 out of 50. But, when it fails, it
typically fails multiple times as shown above. I've seen this over
the last 5 weeks or so.
`rlogin -x' has consistently failed for me
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have NOT tested this fix yet, so I don't know if it works, but I
believe the problem is that on high speed networks the milliscond round
trip delay is short enough that you can get 1-tick timeouts.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:13:51 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hmmm. I thought we agreed that 200 msec was the minimum reasonable
RTO. That code doesn't seem to have made it in.
I assume you mean 20 msec (= 2 tick @ 100 Hz ) ? 200 msec is enough
to get halfway around the
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses
this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary
secondary controller which are bound to specific addresses and interrupts.
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:17:11 +0100, "Alexander Sanda" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
First, plain (no module loaded):
You should also try it with `options COMPAT_IPFW=0' in your config
file.
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[Not network-related; moved to -current.]
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:02:25 -0600 (CST), Mohit Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Good Lord! This is the second time now. I even SAID in my last two mails that
there is only ONE processor. Theortically then, FreeBSD configured with/without
SMP support
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:34:24 -0600 (CST), Mohit Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Well, some difference is to be expected. But 22%
Flaws in the Intel SMP design make it more expensive than it ought to
be. Things like atomic RMW cycles are very, very expensive. (We had
a discussion about six
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 12:42:58 -0800, "Kurt D. Zeilenga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
can go away. WHEELSU can (and should) be provided by
pam_wheel.
wollman@khavrinen(2996)$ ls /usr/lib/pam_*.so
/usr/lib/pam_cleartext_pass_ok.so /usr/lib/pam_radius.so
/usr/lib/pam_deny.so
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 02:11:49 +0100, "Alexander Sanda" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[I wrote:]
You should also try it with `options COMPAT_IPFW=0' in your config
file.
Hm, what's this option for?
Well, somebody may have broken it (perhaps even me). But it was put
there to provide those people
[Multiple irrelevant mailing-lists snipped.]
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:31:19 -0800, "FreeBSD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Since when does an E-mail address require a "realname"?
As Sherlock Holmes once said: ``It is always unpleasant dealing with
an alias.''
plonk
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:21:05 -0500, Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In 'ls' we are not talking about a block count, we are talking about
a byte-count.
ls -s
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:45:51 -0500, Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Yes, it may be "more pure" to use 1024 when comparing 'ls' listings
to block counts, but it is less confusing WITHIN a single 'ls -l'
listing if all the numbers are decimal, and not some combination of
base-10 and
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:12:14 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is definitely a bad idea; IMHO we should only do this when the
resource is actually activated (and obviously free it when deactivated).
Absolutely! As I keep trying to explain to people, that's why there
*is* a
On 18 Jan 2000 03:03:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
said:
Won't people get into legal trouble (technically) if they build the
wrong version?
Depends on who they work for. Some people may work for organizations
which have licensing agreements in place to permit
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:15:35 -0800 (PST), Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is this the same Garrett who persuaded me not to include the RSA code at
all in the freefall repository so that people wouldn't get in trouble for
simply posessing it? :)
No, this is the same Garrett who
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:03:04 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Satoshi Asami) said:
How do I test if sigset_t is empty in -current? The xview sources
have this macro:
#define sigisempty(s) (!(*(s)))
which is ok for the old sigset_t (unsigned int) but obviously won't
work for the new one
If I may inject some possibly-irrelevant fact into this
discussion... gzip (or rather, the ``deflate'' compression algorithm
and the libz file format) has been adopted into a number of formal
standards. It's likely that it will remain with us for a long time.
For those of us who eschew
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:11:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Comparing LINT and GENERIC is made more difficult by the significantly
different ordering. Is there some good reason for this, or would an
offer of GENERIC re-written into the same order as LINT be accepted?
Speaking
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:46:47 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS?
nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it. Geez.
Perhaps you're the only one who compresses files just for the hell of
it. Most people normally compress
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:42:45 +0100, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm curious as to how a choice like this gets made. Could you elaborate?
Other people have answered with the why but not the how.
Choices (like this one about archive formats) get made when people sit
down and actually
I suspect I'm not the only mirror operator who sees a huge load spike
early in the morning:
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:03:28 -0800, Bill Fenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there a quick primer on getting IPv6 up and running? I built a
kernel with INET6 and the ipsec stuff, and my interfaces now have IPv6
addresses, but no userland apps seem to be able to parse IPv6 addresses,
e.g.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:31 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches
your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to
send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:11:52 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
That's not correct; your DHCP configuration should reflect the hostname.
No, it shouldn't. As I keep on trying to explain, the DHCP addresses
are:
1) Temporary.
2) Meaningless.
3) Temporary.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:53:51 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Since the hostname is simply a plain-text token for the IP address
Wrong.
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 00:25:51 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If I boot with loader(8), everything is ok.
Ideas?
loader loads the kernel symbol table; boot2 does not.
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:52:22 +0100 (CET), "Patrick M. Hausen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
BTW: if ls is internal why not get rid of the special
setup for chrooted accounts altogether?
Couldn't ftpd open /etc/pwd.db and /etc/group for reading
before chrooting?
You don't normally want to expose
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:13:51 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[I wrote:]
quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by
Ethernet, the actual capacity of the link is always(*) somewhat less than
100%; the exact value depends on the precise
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:53:37 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I specifically excluded P(coll) by stating point to point or effectively
point to point via switching.
Rod, please bother to READ what people write before spewing nonsense.
The original question asked
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:28:15 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I answered SPECIFICALLY about half-duplex.
The duplex does not in any way effect the maximal link layer transmission
data rate. You seem to keep forgetting the maximal part...
The maximum for full-duplex
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:08:24 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The maximum for full-duplex is utterly irrelevant, since the bounds on
performance for half-duplex Ethernet networks come from CSMA/CD.
I will say it one last time, duplex falls out of the equations when
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:28:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Novice is ok, it's the other two that are problematic. Well,
particularly "custom". "Custom" does not scare away anyone, and is
actually actractive to Windows users. It should be called "death trap"
or something
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:23:27 +0900, Yoshinobu Inoue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If persist timer is working, and if it happen to timeout between
callout_reset(tp-tt_rexmt, tp-t_rxtcur,
tcp_timer_rexmt, tp);
and
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The theoretical maximum for 100BaseT-FDX (which is 200Mbps) is 25MB/s
(megabytes per second), 100BaseT-TX is 12MB/s [FYI: Mbps-MB/s you divide
by 8] I realize my punctuation may be off, but there you are.
Assuming you
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:43:03 +0200, Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
o A username may only be checked $number times per $timeperiod;
after that, _all_ answers are silently converted to "no".
Easier: a username may only be checked by a process running as $uid
or by root.
... etc. There
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:28:07 +0100 (CET), Remy Nonnenmacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
As Net and SCSI are the main source of interrupts, how can i have all
matroxes stacked on one Irq and SCSI and net on two separated ones,
instead of having 'mux' receiving all Ints ?
Depends on your BIOS and
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:30:43 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You incorporate my patches to inetd that teach it to listen on
named sockets, and then run the daemon from there in wait mode.
If inetd dies you're pretty much hosed, anyway.
Think ``single-user mode''.
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:06:07 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IBM Hard drives...
If you can actually get them Last time I bought a drive we
weren't able to get IBM in any reasonable timeframe and ended up with
a Seagate instead. (And that Cheetah 18LP's not a bad
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:43:52 -0800, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm not ready to play with the openssl/ssh stuff yet, but I wanted to
test Soren's latest ATA stuff so I cvsup'ed and started a buildworld
with the following make.conf options:
My buildworld failed here in the
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:40:55 -0500 (EST), Brian Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org
said:
Where's struct kvm_swap and typedef struct kvm_swap *kvm_swap_t supposed to
now be?
Hopefully the latter isn't anywhere, since style(9) says very
specifically that such typedefs are Not To Be Introduced.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:48:50 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs arc...@whistle.com
said:
I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying
netstat to understand the PF_NETGRAPH protocol family. netstat
uses kvm_read(), etc. to read kernel symbols. However, this doesn't
Don't do that. Use
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:04:15 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs arc...@whistle.com
said:
Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice
advantage of the current system. How important is this?
I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old
system.)
If we were
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:11:12 -0800, Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au said:
Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named,
not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering
of nodes.
Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
dil...@apollo.backplane.com said:
Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments.
Nonsense. Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in
FreeBSD. The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:43:42 +0100 (MET), Luigi Rizzo
lu...@labinfo.iet.unipi.it said:
the problem is that i don't know how well unionfs works, and i don't
have the ability to fix it.
Please keep in mind that there are two *different* entiries being
discussed here:
1) mount -o union
2)
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:44:33 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com
said:
A lot of people use a lot of things out of ports. Why should Fortran
be different?
Because Berkeley Unix has /always/ included a FORTRAN compiler.
-GAWollman
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Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:38:23 -0500, Mike O'Dell m...@servo.ccr.org said:
i asked Dennis Ritchie his opinion of the right behavior
The right behavior of what?
-GAWollman
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Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same
woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:00:54 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs arc...@whistle.com
said:
Please do go ahead and update it.. the experts agree!
I haven't seen any experts involved in this discussion yet. It's
probably after bedtime down there in oz.
-GAWollman
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Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:30:15 -0500 (EST), Robert Watson
rob...@cyrus.watson.org said:
It's not clear to me, when thinking of introducing a new file (say, for
auditing support :), what I should name it. Would it be kern_audit.c or
sys_audit.c?
Depends on what it is auditing. If it only
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:56:37 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com
said:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
I'll support that. The example given in style(9):
a = b-c[0] + ~d == (e || f) || g h ? i : j 1;
should rate as an entry in the Obfuscated C competition rather than
an example of
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:48:31 +0200 (SAT), Robert Nordier
rnord...@nordier.com said:
| COMPATIBILITY
| The rm utility differs from historical implementations in that
| the -f option only masks attempts to remove non-existent
| files instead of masking a large variety of errors.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:49:43 +1030, Greg Lehey g...@lemis.com said:
Question: how many people still limit their editor windows to 80
characters?
Probably almost anyone who uses the default settings.
Many people like to be able to see more than one thing on the desktop
at a time. Even with a
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