Re: IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: I've taken a look, and there's as good as no docco. It's an OS/2 version, which suggests to me that it would be more difficult to port than the original AIX version. I might get back to it again later on, but don't hold your breath. No, in fact

Re: Installing -current

2000-02-04 Thread Jonas Bülow
Before I ran into trouble I want to ask if 4.0 supports the 3CCFE574BT NIC? (3com 3c574). It looks that way. I haven't had the occasion to try myself. It worked! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-04 Thread Mike Bristow
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: Mike Bristow wrote: True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk

Re: mounting openbsd disks

2000-02-04 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Warner Losh wrote: I have a need to mount a disk that was partitioned and labeled on OpenBSD. I'm getting the following errors when I try: # disklabel ad2 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument root@earth:~# disklabel ad1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid

Disposable PCs?

2000-02-04 Thread Potts, Ross
I just rejoined the list after a couple years layoff, so I felt compelled to submit this. I finished reading an article on www.tomshardware.com that said Samsung is trying to make disposable PCs. Cost would be around $200. When I followed the link to get more details it finished with

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2000-02-04 Thread Potts, Ross
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elf

2000-02-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
How can I disassemble ELF programs? I need to create my own startup code for FPC programs. (copying some variables before pascal code startup) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Disposable PCs?

2000-02-04 Thread Einar Orn Eidsson
That's interesting, I can't find the link on Tom's page though, either I'm blind or I'm having a premature hangover. Could you post the URL? | Einar Orn Eidsson | Tel: +354-696-1352 | SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ: 8818678 -- -- - - - - On Fri, 4 Feb

Re: elf

2000-02-04 Thread Alexander Voropay
Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I disassemble ELF programs? Try IDA PRO : http://www.datarescue.com/ida.htm http://www.rosprombank.ru/~ig/ -- -=AV=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: elf

2000-02-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Feb-00 Marco van de Voort wrote: How can I disassemble ELF programs? I need to create my own startup code for FPC programs. (copying some variables before pascal code startup) Try 'objdump -d'. It's more readable if you don't strip the program. You can also use this to

RE: elf

2000-02-04 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, John Baldwin wrote: On 04-Feb-00 Marco van de Voort wrote: How can I disassemble ELF programs? I need to create my own startup code for FPC programs. (copying some variables before pascal code startup) Try 'objdump -d'. It's more readable if you don't

RE: Disposable PCs?

2000-02-04 Thread Potts, Ross
Okay, here it is. It's dated today(4 Feb 2000). www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html#0619. -Original Message- From: Einar Orn Eidsson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:23 AM To: Potts, Ross Cc: '[EMAIL

Re: mounting openbsd disks

2000-02-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chris D. Faulhaber" writes: : root@earth:~# disklabel ad1 : disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument : root@earth:~# disklabel /dev/ad1s4 disklabel /dev/ad2s2 (which is the OpenBSD partition) fails with the same error. Mounting claims a bad magic number.

JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Bill Pechter
Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component

Re: elf

2000-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
On 04-Feb-00 Marco van de Voort wrote: How can I disassemble ELF programs? I need to create my own startup code for FPC programs. (copying some variables before pascal code startup) Try 'objdump -d'. It's more readable if you don't strip the program. You can also use this

Re: elf

2000-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
Marco van de Voort wrote: How can I disassemble ELF programs? objdump --disassemble -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to compile without libc (so not static)

2000-02-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
I finished the syscalls, so now I moved on the initialisation code. To test that I try to create an empty binary, which doesn't link to libc: I've put in an hour effort, and wrote the following C file: int main (void) { return 0; } gcc -nostdlib empty.c /usr/lib/crti.o /usr/lib/crt0.o -o

General lameness regarding exec()

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Bacarella
I patch my systems to log exec() calls because I think it's useful, but I really don't know how to go about making it a general contribution. Anyone like this idea? Any Suggestions for how I should really implement it? I basically have it end up in syslog, along with who called it and what

Re: how to compile without libc (so not static)

2000-02-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marco van de Voort writes: : /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': : /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to `atexit' : /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x5c): undefined reference to `atexit' : /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x6f): undefined reference to `exit' : in /usr/lib

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:57 PM -0500 2/4/00, Bill Pechter wrote: Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? People outside the expo heard about it too, and there has been an

Re: Disposable PCs?

2000-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
"Potts, Ross" wrote: Okay, here it is. It's dated today(4 Feb 2000). www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html#0619. For the full scoop, see http://www.theregister.co.uk/000203-22.html If you post complete URLs, *some* of us can just click on them in our mailers. ;^) --

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
Bill Pechter wrote: Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? You apparently haven't noticed the war of words going on on http://daily.daemonnews.org/

Re: General lameness regarding exec()

2000-02-04 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: I patch my systems to log exec() calls because I think it's useful, but I really don't know how to go about making it a general contribution. Anyone like this idea? Any Suggestions for how I should really implement it? Have a look at:

Re: Removing interfaces

2000-02-04 Thread Archie Cobbs
Warner Losh writes: : With all the PCMCIA card stuff going on, is it now possible to : remove a networking interface in FreeBSD (from within the kernel)? : : If so could someone show me an example how. I'd like to implement : this in the ng_iface(8) netgraph node type. if_detach() is

Re: aio_read crashing certain kernels.

2000-02-04 Thread Scott Hess
"Matthew Dillon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can reproduce the bug easily, can you post the program that causes it plus instructions on how to reproduce the bug? If one of us can reproduce it we may be able to squeeze more info out of the crash. Sorry I took so long to

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -fs] On Friday, 4 February 2000 at 15:28:34 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: Bill Pechter wrote: Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? You

FreeBSD Posix threads

2000-02-04 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have searched the archive for a while and still have some confusions about this subjects: (1) Some people say "For I/O bound activity, kernel threads are a really bad idea". But I read the following passage from else where: Kernel threads perform better in I/O-intensive applications

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-04 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mike Bristow wrote: True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs) Well

Re: FreeBSD Posix threads

2000-02-04 Thread Russell L. Carter
% %I have searched the archive for a while and still have some confusions %about this subjects: % %(1) Some people say "For I/O bound activity, kernel threads are a really %bad idea". But I read the following passage from else where: % %Kernel threads perform better in I/O-intensive

Re: FreeBSD Posix threads

2000-02-04 Thread Scott Hess
"Zhihui Zhang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) Some people say "For I/O bound activity, kernel threads are a really bad idea". But I read the following passage from else where: Kernel threads perform better in I/O-intensive applications because system call can be blocking for kernel threads

Re: how to compile without libc (so not static)

2000-02-04 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Marco van de Voort: gcc -nostdlib empty.c /usr/lib/crti.o /usr/lib/crt0.o -o empty You mean crt1.o instead of crt0.o here right? crt0.o is the a.out version... grep exit *.o nm(1) is your Dear Friend® here. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Bill Pechter: Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component that would never see "free" status. Note that the released version is the OS/2 one (maybe based on HPFS?) not the one in AIX. But I agree this is good

Question about msdosfs

2000-02-04 Thread Warner Losh
In msdosfs_vfsops.c we have: || !pmp-pm_Heads || pmp-pm_Heads 255 #ifdef PC98 || !pmp-pm_SecPerTrack || pmp-pm_SecPerTrack 255) { #else || !pmp-pm_SecPerTrack || pmp-pm_SecPerTrack 63) { #endif

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-04 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Kenneth D. Merry had to walk into mine and say: Talking of the XMAC II, there's one other thing I forgot to mention earlier. The FreeBSD sk driver does jumbo frames, but the SysKonnect drivers don't. At least, not yet. The XMAC II's