Tail-call reference (was: CPUTYPE warning)

2001-08-07 Thread Joseph Koshy
tl == Terry Lambert wrote: tl FWIW: tail-call optimization is when I have a function tl that, as it's last thing (perhaps after reordering by tl the compiler, as well) calls another function, such tl that the return value of the other function is its tl return value. See also: Debunking

Re: Linux ls fails on DEVFS /dev

2001-08-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Michael Reifenberger wrote: linux ls fails on DEVFS /dev because linux_getdents fails because linux_getdents uses VOP_READDIR( ..., ncookies, cookies ) instead of VOP_READDIR( ..., NULL, NULL ) because it seems to need the offsets for linux_dirent and sizeof(dirent) != sizeof(linux_dirent)...

Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current

2001-08-07 Thread Mike Smith
Er. Interesting. Doing some reading up on the M1533, I notice that the power management component isn't actually listed here: ohci0@pci0:2:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x chip=0x523710b9 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Inc.' device = 'ALI M5237 USB Host

msdosfs borked ?

2001-08-07 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Hi. Just upgraded my system today to the latest -current, after my last venture into -current in May. Has MS-Dos filesystem support been broken ? I can't see any commits or notes in UPDATING, and hadn't read anything in -current about it. I am running devfs. Debugging output below : FreeBSD

Missing '()' in aac.c

2001-08-07 Thread Harti Brandt
Hello, () are missing around the KASSERT format string in aac.c and compilation fails (if KASSERTS are enabled). The following patch fixes the problem. Regards, harti Index: aac.c === RCS file: /usr/ncvs/src/sys/dev/aac/aac.c,v

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kill -s does not work.

2001-08-07 Thread David Hill
While reading the exports(5) manpage, near the bottom is an example kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` does kill -s causes this error: # kill -s HUP s: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals. However, reading the kill(1) manpage, -s is documented. So, I am thinking this is a bug in kill(1).

Re: kill -s does not work.

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:12:08PM -0400, David Hill wrote: # kill -s HUP s: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals. However, reading the kill(1) manpage, -s is documented. So, I am thinking this is a bug in kill(1). I bet you are using csh, and running the kill builtin instead of kill(1).

Re: kill -s does not work.

2001-08-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:12:08 -0400, David Hill wrote: However, reading the kill(1) manpage, -s is documented. So, I am thinking this is a bug in kill(1). Does anyone have any comments? Read the kill(1) manual page: Some shells may provide a builtin kill command which is similar or

Re: kill -s does not work.

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Peek
At 3:12 PM -0400 8/7/01, David Hill wrote: While reading the exports(5) manpage, near the bottom is an example kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` does kill -s causes this error: # kill -s HUP s: Unknown signal; kill -l lists signals. However, reading the kill(1) manpage, -s is documented.

USB Microtech CameraMate CF/CF+/CF+II/Microdrive/SmartMedia reader

2001-08-07 Thread Jim Bryant
I did an archive search of this list, and found a post from April from a guy who had some diffs to scsi_da.c and the umass driver to get this thing working. I sent him an email a couple of weeks ago, but haven't heard back yet. He said he had it working under -current. Does anyone have a

Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current

2001-08-07 Thread Daniel Rock
Mike Smith schrieb: Er. Interesting. Doing some reading up on the M1533, I notice that the power management component isn't actually listed here: ohci0@pci0:2:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x chip=0x523710b9 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Inc.' device =

5.0 and USB devices

2001-08-07 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Now, this _used_ to work -- some time back in February or even in spring. But not anymore... usbd is running, the usb device, with the uhci are compiled into the kernel, and the controller is reported on boot: uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port

Re: Missing '()' in aac.c

2001-08-07 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harti Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: () are missing around the KASSERT format string in aac.c and compilation fails (if KASSERTS are enabled). The following patch fixes the problem. Index: aac.c

Random Lockups

2001-08-07 Thread Sean Kelly
I'm surry I don't have much data to provide, but... I've been experiencing random lockups on a -CURRENT kernel from the August 5th source. I've gotten it a lot when running screen and ssh on two different terminals at the same time, but that is not the only time it happens. Hardware is a

Deadline for .biz .info approaches!!

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Re: KSE/threads progress report

2001-08-07 Thread John Baldwin
On 07-Aug-01 Paul Saab wrote: Kenneth D. Merry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: diff2 output, on the other hand, won't run through patch properly. You have to run it through a fixup script to get it right. p4 diff -u -b branch p4 diff2 -u -b branch ^ -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

p4 diff notes..

2001-08-07 Thread John Baldwin
On 07-Aug-01 Julian Elischer wrote: I have pushed the thread pointers down through most of the code though there are still many many places that assume that there is only one thread per process. (no multithreading yet, but getting closer..) At this stage diffs must be pushing close to

Re: p4 diff notes..

2001-08-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:36:01 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: On 07-Aug-01 Julian Elischer wrote: I have pushed the thread pointers down through most of the code though there are still many many places that assume that there is only one thread per process. (no multithreading yet, but