Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
fail, which defeats the purpose of open(). I think what's needed is some form of serialization around revoke() and open(). I'm not a master of the init code, but it may be that the code is inherently non-reentrant, so the original code would then be okay. Paul Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
From: Paul A. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think what's needed is some form of serialization around revoke() and open(). I'm not a master of the init code, but it may be that the code is inherently non-reentrant, so the original code would then be okay. Or, it may use spltty()? Or some other

Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
is the only process opening a tty, serialization would be inherent. But, like I said earlier, I'm no master of init code. I've just never heard of any problems springing from this, so I offer a possible explanation of why it seems (to me) to work. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

2002-12-18 Thread Paul A. Scott
to simply 'make' a 386 kernel--and all the rest--indefinitely. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-29 Thread Paul A. Scott
] CVS keeps a shedload of metadata here Ahhh. Since the topic has moved from FreeBSD to Apple Mac OSX, it's now off-topic and I should now kill this thread. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
way to do a checkout on src/contrib while bypassing src/contrib/cvs? Or, can this be fixed to work? Thanks, Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
You are not being quite forthright, I think. Actually, I've been totally forthright. I start with an empty working directory, and type: setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs login cvs co src/contrib When it gets to directory src/contrib/cvs, I get: cvs checkout: cannot

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
this happened in the first place. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
error. Let's just forget the whole thing. Thanks for all your help. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7

2002-10-29 Thread Paul A. Scott
help me debug and resolve this problem? I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. Thanks, Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott;skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message