traceroute breakage in -current

> 204.216.27.21.7: udp 12 09:05:03.628822 206.213.73.12.38947 > 204.216.27.21.8: udp 12 09:05:03.650996 206.213.73.12.38947 > 204.216.27.21.9: udp 12 09:05:03.673285 206.213.73.12.38947 > 204.216.27.21.10: udp 12 It broke in revision 1.9 of "src/contrib/traceroute/trac

HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

(the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for more details. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.&qu

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

VSup won't touch your symbolic links. It won't touch any file that it doesn't know anything about. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No mat

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

where the discussion had been. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."-- Nora Ephron To

Re: this of interest to anyone?

Yes, you can do it if you're careful. There's a section "Local Modifications in your CVS Repository" in the CVSup FAQ that talks about it. http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ John -- John Polstra [EMAI

Re: Soft-updates feedback

I don't know why I'm on the cc for this thread, but please remove me. And it shouldn't be cross-posted to 2 lists. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources have been moved

ain branch (-current), the RELENG_3 branch (-stable), and Warner's RELENG_3_2_PAO branch. I've updated the comments in LINT and README.softupdates accordingly. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., I

Re: loads of SetAttrs in cvsup of cvs repo

situations. - You've accidentally touched all the files in your repository in some way (changed their modtimes, changed their permissions, changed their owners, etc.). John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: loads of SetAttrs in cvsup of cvs repo

Mike Pritchard wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >> - You are running cvsup with a different umask than usual. To guard >> against this, you can add a "umask=022" setting in your supfile >> (CVSup-16.0 and later). > > Speaking of CVSup-16.0, I can't get the port in /usr/ports/ne

Re: loads of SetAttrs in cvsup of cvs repo

up will have recreated it for you by now. - You changed your supfile in some way. - Your friendly mirror site maintainer accidentally touched his copies of the files. And of course there's always the possibility that it was caused by a plain old bug in CVSup. > I just gave cvsup an

Re: utmp & last

longut_time; > }; > > Not that there is any _real_ difference between long and time_t, On the Alpha, a long is 64 bits but a time_t is 32 bits. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co.

Re: Problem with cvsup

m surprised you're having problems using it, even with NAT. If you have some time to spend on this, some tcpdumps might provide a clue. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Wash

Re: Moving ipf(1) to ipf(8)?

xt release is imported. Meanwhile, if you want to install it into man8, you could do it with special rules in "src/sbin/ipf/Makefile". Something like this (untested) should do the trick: MAN8= ipf.8 CLEANFILES+= ipf.8 ipf.8: ipf.1 cp ${.ALLSRC}

Re: 4.0-current [/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: cc: Undefined symbol "mkstemps"]

sing the correct library. Type "ldd /usr/bin/cc" to see which libraries it's really finding. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matte

Re: Library question/challenge

ding the wrong libc. Make sure you don't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include "/usr/lib". John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cy

Re: Library question/challenge

mon:/usr/home/asmodai] (3) $ ldconfig -aout -r | grep libc.so > 27:-lc.3.1 => /usr/lib/aout/libc.so.3.1 Right. So the problem must be that you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co.

Re: Library question/challenge

Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > * John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990729 18:49]: >> >> Right. So the problem must be that you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set. > > Yes I have, but this hasn't been a problem for the last 5-6 months. > In what way could it interfere with

Re: make cvsup broken

it" or "limit" to remove any memory-related resource limits prior to building the port. >From the weird stuff in your other recent bug reports, I also think it's entirely possible that your hardware or kernel or filesystems are messed up. John -- John Polstra

Re: Dropping connections without RST

on the FIN, URG, and PUSH flags. The Null scan turns off all flags. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can&

Re: SIGBUS [was Re: gdb]

sn't even have SIGBUS as far as the kernel is concerned. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

Nice work! It looks right to me, not to mention that it now agrees with what the dynamic linker does. I think you should definitely bring it into -stable. For good form you might want to give it another day or two in -current first. John -- John Polstra

Re: Building older -current on newer -current?

ere any reason why I > couldn't make world from some time around 12/8/99 on -current from > yesterday evening? Would I have to build a new kernel first? Normally it's possible, and you don't need a new kernel to do it. John -- John Polstra

Re: gcc compiler problem part deux

uld read from a pipe, > whilst the former wouldn't. This can make converting to 'cc -E' a > non-trivial exercise. That's what /dev/stdin is for: cat hello.c | cc -E -x c /dev/stdin John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROT

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ollivier Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to John Polstra: > > Current versions of ntpd use these features if they're available. I > > The ntpd daemon in -CURRENT doesn't use these as we cannot be sure

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

l from what I can see) There already _is_ a port of it (net/ntp). And there are hooks in /etc/rc.conf ("xntpd_program") to use the ports version instead of the one in the base system. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra &am

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

; the base system the other(s) should probably be removed entirely. I'm sure we'll get there eventually. Things move at a stately pace in -stable. :-) John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: 4.0 slower than 3.4?

back to have its headers rewritten. That's a lot of overhead. Not so with ipfilter -- it's all done inside the kernel. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washin

Re: __sigisempty() undefined if "cc -g" used.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You apparently > clobbered -O in CFLAGS by setting CFLAGS=-g. -g normally needs to be > added to CC to avoid breaking CFLAGS (CC='cc -g'). Better yet: DEBUG_FLAGS=-g John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFC: buildworld breakage due to cross-tools/libc/mktemp.

onality from libc. That means (ideally) only functions which appear in the ANSI/ISO C standard, or (tolerably) only functions which appear in ANSI/ISO C or POSIX. This means: if you need a FreeBSD-specific function such as getobjformat() then you write your own version of it, or copy the source and

Re: RFC: buildworld breakage due to cross-tools/libc/mktemp.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:00:01PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > > I _really_ don't like it when a program reaches waaay over into an > > unrelated directory for its sourc

Re: C++ exceptions doesn't work in shared libraries

ngs ahead in the queue. > Of course a patch would make things go much faster. The problem is caused by the fact that we are still using our own home-grown versions of crtbegin.o and crtend.o (from "src/lib/csu"). We need to use the ones built from crtstuf

Re: Rolling OSVERSION

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless anyone objects I'm going to bump OSVERSION tonight to provide a > cutoff for whether or not openssl is available in the base system. Ports > need to behave differently in either case.. You mean "__FreeBSD_version"

Re: breakage

for every "CVSup problem" that turned out to be something else, I'd be a rich man today. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is

Re: Error building current

better if the default were to delete and there was a "nodelete" option. But that wouldn't have been compatible. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Wash

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

gh. Naturally this comes just hours after I have merged the latest changes into -stable *sigh*. Could you please make sure your src/libexec/rtld-elf is up-to-date? rtld.c should be at revision 1.41. Then if you can give me a stack backtrace it would help a lot. T

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

rrent since January 9, and I'm wondering if a more recent change in a different part of the system is causing trouble. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA

Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

the busiest of times. Thanks for your cooperation. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I wrote: > To choose a mirror site, try pinging the mirrors in your country. I have been reminded that a few mirrors (cvsup8 in particular) filter pings. Don't take ping failures as a certain indication that the server is down. John --

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

think. Lots of complications arise when, for example, you interrupt an update in the middle such that some files have been updated while others haven't. There is discussion on all this in the mailing list archives somewhere. John -- John Polstra

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

now is: did it start failing soon after January 9, or only just in the past few days? Also I really need a stack trace of a failure to analyze. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Was

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

> Can you make cvsup accept multiple servers to try in it's configuration > file? I'll add that to the to-do list. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Sea

Re: even more breakage in current

ral, do your best to restore your system to a pristine state. Then test with make world. Yes, this is a pain. But it's a pain for one person instead of for several hundred. :-) John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra

Re: With feature freeze being in place

s > out no files). Hmm. It works for me. Not all mirrors carry the more esoteric collections like gnats. I know that cvsup[15678] carry it. I think cvsup2 doesn't, and I'm not sure about 3 and 4. John -- John Polstra

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > applet_viewer bombs out with a lot of stuff in the output like this > (until killed -9): > > ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/lockdflt.c:55 The last time this problem happened (I thought I fixed it!),

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

> ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/lockdflt.c:55 If any of you can reproduce this problem fairly reliably, please try the appended patch for "src/libexec/rtld-elf/lockdflt.c" and let me know if it solves the problem. Thanks, John Index: lockdflt.c ==

Re: With feature freeze being in place

lly-updated list. It's practically impossible to keep them up-to-date in the port. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of bas

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

Before I forget: PLEASE DON'T CC ME ON YOUR REPLIES. I'LL READ THEM IN THE MAILING LIST. THANK YOU. > > Hmmm. A thought just occurred to me. There's no need to measure > > these things. Lookup all the IP addresses. Do a non blocking > > connection to each of these machines. First one to co

Re: rtld-elf, java + tya

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems that this patch fixed the problem for me. > I can not reproduce it anymore. That's good news. Thanks for testing it! I'll commit it later today. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Alpha world breakage in sys/modules/if_tun

/usr/obj/c/src/alpha/usr/include /c/src/sys/modules/if_tun/../../net/if_tun .c In file included from @/netatm/kern_include.h:105, from /c/src/sys/modules/if_tun/../../net/if_tun.c:50: @/netatm/atm_if.h:349: #error - Must define hardware-spe

Need testers for libc_r patch

ibc_r and aren't too hard to set up and run, that would be helpful too. Thanks, John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign o

Re: y2k problem? naahhh...

root:(password):0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh > toor:(password):0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: > daemon:(password):1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/sbin/nologin Heh, I'd say revision 1.5 of "src/etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd" needs a bi

Re: Makefile.inc1 change

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will back it out until after 4.0 so this change can be analized in > more detail. What a perfect Freudian slip! Does this mean you plan to, er, put it

Re: PAIN

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the current wuildworld times for a 486DX2-66 + 12M RAM over > NFS? Dunno yet. I started one in late 1997 but it's still running. I'll let you know when it finishes. :-) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L in GENERIC is redundant

is already the default in src/sys/sys/param.h: #ifdef P1003_1B #define _P1003_1B_VISIBLE #ifndef _KPOSIX_VERSION #define _KPOSIX_VERSION 199309L #endif #endif Am I right, or am I missing something? John --- John Polstra [EMAIL

Re: make installworld broken???

> > It's source-dir is called "xinstall" btw. > Why is the source called "xinstall"? To avoid colliding with the standard make target "install". If we had utilities named "all", "depend", and "clean" we'd have to do the same thing for them. John PS - Please remove me from the cc on the inevita

Re: cvsup8.freebsd.org gone?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > What happed with much-advertised by Polstra cvsup8.freebsd.org cvsup mirror? > > He advertised shortly thereafter that it had died :-) Not "died." Taken out of service tem

Re: mail.freebsd.org's host id changed

ddress to use is [EMAIL PROTECTED] John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa

Re: mail.freebsd.org's host id changed

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > > Why are you addressing mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? The correct > > address to use is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Because I replied to a message I received whi

Re: libcrypto (DES - MD5)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > I add a new user, and with 'vipw' I notices that this user now gets a > > DES based passwd. (we only use MD5 passwords around). Then I looked in > > /usr/lib and noticed t

Re: GNATS reply?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Shouldn't I get a response email from > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Or is this a casualty of the mail > breakage? It is a casualty of the mailserver HW problem. > Would I be better of using the web form, or just wait

Re: Pre-3.3 to 4.0 w/ IPsec

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eugene M. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to share the knowledge of this little devil. > > For those who want to upgrade via cvsup their pre-3.3 system to test > IPsec: due to the addition of src-sys-crypto in secure-supfile, one will > have to cvsup f

Re: /usr/src/Makefile.inc1: make update

y instead. If everybody used /usr/local/etc/periodic to run their cvsups, then they would all hit the servers at the same times (from a given time zone). Not friendly, and not likely to yield satisfactory results either. Pick a "random" time

Re: gcc and /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3

++ may give errors like below when you try to run them: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3: Undefined symbol "__vt_7filebuf" The only fix is to rebuild the application and any C++ libraries used. John -- John Polstra

Re: gcc and /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > Are you sure you're not just hitting this problem described in > > src/UPDATING? > > > > 2124: > > The default way that vir

Re: ulimit weirdness

on specifies the soft limits instead. When displaying limits, only one of -S or -H can be given. The default is to display the soft limits, and to set both the hard and the soft limits. If you want to lower the coredumpsize limit t

Re: HEADS-UP, upcoming changes to ipfw: keep-state

but could you please describe what it does? Apparently it adds a temporary pass rule between two endpoints, in response to a triggering rule that contains "keep-state". Is that right? I realize it's probably like ipfilter's keep-state feature. But that's not documented

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

on the receiving disk before the dump|restore? It seems like if you didn't then the free block bitmaps in the cylinder groups would contain garbage. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: openssh uses /etc (bad)

ons documented in hier(4). /usr/libexec is for things that are executed by other programs. Normal persistent daemons such as sshd belong in /usr/sbin. Take a look at the current contents of those two directories and you'll see the distinction. John -- John Polstra

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

n things blindly. In my experience, CVSup is not slow for the ports tree. CVS is slow, but not CVSup. I can typically update my entire CVS repository (CVSROOT + distrib + doc + ports + src + www) in 1.5-2 minutes on a 56 Kbit link. Of course the "cvs upd" afterwards does take a l

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

. And my Internet link is a wimpy 56 Kbit frame relay connection John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intellig

Re: "Interesting" failure mode for static linking with shared libs.

ing the .a file directly in the link line > (cc -static ${SSHOBJS} -o ssh /usr/local/lib/librsaref.a -lrsaglue -lssl) > in hopes that this would somehow get it preferred just on that > basis alone, but no deal. Urk! Any ideas? A simple test case that I built do

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

isely how to duplicate the problem then I'll try. Assume I know nothing about wine. Thanks, John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

> Note: I didn't compile wine with -g. I'll do that if you want... Thanks, but it's not necessary at this point. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington

pthread_{suspend,resume}_np broken?

return(ret); } Shouldn't the test against PS_SUSPENDED be "==" instead of "!="? I would think we'd want to do something if the thread was suspended, and skip it if the thread wasn't suspended -- exactly the opposite of what the current code does. John --- John Po

Re: pthread_{suspend,resume}_np broken?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > Shouldn't the test against PS_SUSPENDED be "==" instead of "!="? > > Yes, it should be "==" instead of

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

articular service. That's why it's called System V shared memory. Also, it's persistent for legitimate design reasons, just like files are. Applications need to clean up after themselves. The OS has no way of knowing whether an application wants its shared memory segments to survive after

Re: ssh strangeness in -current...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh, so you can use the OpenSSH client to connect to some servers, but not > the F-Secure one? That would definitely be a bug you should report to the > OpenSSH developers. > > Is anyone else in the position to test th

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > > Below is a patch for "src/libexec/rtld-elf" which should fix the > > assert failures in wine. I'd appreciate hearing from anybody who > &g

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just reverted back to the "normal" version of ld-elf.so, the version > without the patch.  Mozilla doesn't have the problem with the > "non-patch" version.  So, maybe it isn't the application.  Or, maybe the > original

Re: pthread_{suspend,resume}_np broken?

y immediate need for it. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

Below is a patch for "src/libexec/rtld-elf" which should fix the assert failures in wine. I'd appreciate hearing from anybody who tests this with multithreaded packages such as wine, JDK, Mozilla, and linuxthreads. Just a reminder -- be extra careful when messing with the dynamic linker. It's e

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

he dynamic linker that's in -current at present. I've looked into adding the dllockinit() stuff to Wine, but could use some help from somebody who knows its internals better. I found the threads primitives, etc., but am not so sure where to place the dllockinit() call. John -- John Po

Re: MAX_UID ?

o into in the "!defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)" section. Bruce might have a better idea. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of ba

Re: MAX_UID ?

((uid_t)0-1). That's what is used in the i386's . John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Ch

Re: MAX_UID ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > > I guess it could go into in the > > "!defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)" section. Bruce might have a better idea. > > I don't think is the righ

Re: More "ld-elf.so.1: assert failed" messages

rlock_acquire and wlock_aquire will be the same (lock the mutex). I'd recommend using a simple mutex unless the threads package already implements reader/writer locks. I really hope I can render all this nonsense unnecessary after the code freeze ends. John -- John Polstra

Re: Make world error.....

29 -current system to today's -current. I didn't use make -j and I didn't take any shortcuts. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappoin

Re: Make world error.....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > This is still broken. I ran into it when upgrading a Feb. 29 -current > > system to today's -current. I didn't use make -j and I

Re: MAX_UID ?

ned by the ANSI/ISO C standard. The standard doesn't permit polluting the namespace with extra stuff. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment i

Re: MAX_UID ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:51:17PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 1

Re: MAX_UID ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would prefer standard maxof() and minof() interfaces that work on > any arithmetic type. These can almost be written in portable C, at > least in C89 where types are restricted to char, signed char, ..., > long double:

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH not working?

00. Did I overlook some configuration change? Thanks. Nothing has changed in connection with LD_LIBRARY_PATH recently. In fact, it has been at least a few weeks since the dynamic linker changed at all. Remember, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored for setuid/set

Re: libalias or libnat. Vote ?

Users don't know or care about the name of the library. Programmers are used to dealing with quirks like having NAT implemented in a library named libalias. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

updates itself every 6 minutes from freefall. If the file still isn't there after 1 hour 6 minutes, then please send me the details. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washingt

Re: $FreeBSD tag confusion

cvs update -A umap.h If that fixes it, then you'd better do the same thing to the rest of your source tree: cd /usr/src cvs update -APd John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: $FreeBSD tag confusion

there a description somewhere of what I need to steal out of > FreeBSD's CVSROOT that will make it happen? Grab the "options" file from there. John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.

Re: PPPD+PAM

ot;session" feature currently. Hey markm, ya wanna add this to your to-do list? :-) John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get,

Re: Perl still broken in 4.0-CURRENT

rtld. Hmm, could be. Can one of you please give it a try with the older ld-elf.so.1 and see if it works again? I recommend trying the dynamic linker from August 25. If it works with the older dynamic linker, please send me (preferably simple :-) instructions for reproducing the problem.

Re: Perl still broken in 4.0-CURRENT

Pascal Hofstee wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, John Polstra wrote: > >> Hmm, could be. Can one of you please give it a try with the older >> ld-elf.so.1 and see if it works again? I recommend trying the >> dynamic linker from August 25. >> >> If it works w

Re: Perl still broken in 4.0-CURRENT

Oops, I said: > 1. Make a backup copy of "/usr/libexec/rtld-elf.so.1". but I meant "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1". John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle,

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