Re: [john: tty behaviour]

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Nowlin
I sent this to questions a couple of weeks ago, but didn't receive any helpful replies. Anyone doing this - two machines connected by a null-modem cable with the ability to create a serial terminal session from either side, with suitable juggling of getty processes? Used to do this in

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: Ok, now I have a question. Using STARTTLS with sendmail is obviously OK for us, since sendmail got the export liscense. However, AFAIK, qmail and postfix have obtained no such permission. Postfix has done the BXA hoop

Creating a list of newbus devices.

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolai Petri
Is it possible from kernel mode to create a list of newbus devices ? And how do I'll get a pointer to the new-bus root (or whatever it's tecnical name is :) --- Nicolai Petri To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Creating a list of newbus devices.

2000-09-08 Thread Nick Hibma
The answers are 'no' and 'root_bus'. The 'no' could be revised into something more useful if you are able to tell us what you are trying to do. Nick On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Nicolai Petri wrote: Is it possible from kernel mode to create a list of newbus devices ? And how do I'll get a pointer

makecontext() friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Mitja Horvat
Hi, are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? Is there any other way to implement user-level threads? (I know it can be done in assembler, but this is not portable) Using pthreads is not an option for me, although pthreads are implemented as userlevel

makecontext friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Mitja Horvat
Hi, are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? Is there any other way to implement user-level threads? (I know it can be done in assembler, but this is not portable) Using pthreads is not an option for me, although pthreads are implemented as userlevel

Re: Shared Memory Issues

2000-09-08 Thread John Toon
Lance Rocker wrote: Hello, I too had problems with running out of shared mem segments, so I wrote my first ever perl script that does something useful for me. I've attached it to this email and I'll paste it in below too, for convenience. I noticed that many (most?) of the shared mem

Re: makecontext friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? I don't know of any plans myself, but I would appreciate that we support this standardized ucontext(3) API in FreeBSD. The API is actually not the problem, the question is

How many -k's does a build need?

2000-09-08 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Just noticed this little oddity while building XFree86-4, from ports supped today: make -k -f xmakefile all root 17383 0.0 0.2 628 244 p6 I+6:30AM 0:00.00 (sh) root 36617 0.0 0.5 1076 680 p6 I+6:51AM 0:00.05 make -k -k CDEBUGFLAGS= all root 36618 0.0 0.2 628

Re: Creating a list of newbus devices.

2000-09-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicolai Petri writes: : Is it possible from kernel mode to create a list of newbus devices ? : And how do I'll get a pointer to the new-bus root (or whatever it's : tecnical name is :) Yes. You keep asking for parents until you get none. The one that has a null

Re: makecontext() friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Mitja Horvat wrote: Hi, are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? Is there any other way to implement user-level threads? (I know it can be done in assembler, but this is not portable) Using pthreads is not an option for me,

Re: How to stop problems from printf

2000-09-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:27 PM -0400 9/7/00, John Doh! wrote: Hello to you am I C coder who to wish write programs we cannot exploit via code such as below. main(int argc, char **argv) { if(argc 1) { printf(gettext("usage: %s filename\n"),argv[0]); exit(0); } printf("normal execution

Re: makecontext friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? I don't know of any plans myself, but I would appreciate that we support this standardized ucontext(3) API in FreeBSD.

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Soren Schmidt wrote: From the README: ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0908: Add support for ATA channels with both a master and a slave, even combos where only on of them supports tagged queuing should work now. Also only switch on tagged queuing on IBM DPTA DTLA series drives, the

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thierry Herbelot wrote: Soren Schmidt wrote: From the README: ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0908: Add support for ATA channels with both a master and a slave, even combos where only on of them supports tagged queuing should work now. Also only switch on tagged queuing

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yeah :) Any chance an older IBM drive might be supported ? IBM-DTTA-351010/T56OA73A Well, the DTTA's say they support tagged queuing, but since the newer DJNA has firmware problems the DTTA probably has that too. To be fair I havn't tried it yet, so if you feel adventurous you can

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Jacob writes: Yeah :) Any chance an older IBM drive might be supported ? IBM-DTTA-351010/T56OA73A Well, the DTTA's say they support tagged queuing, but since the newer DJNA has firmware problems the DTTA probably has that too. To be fair I

Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Esko Petteri Matinsola
Thank you for your last reply about the Promise 100 controller, I got it working with that patch. But now, I have Asus P2L97 mobo with 64MB RAM, 266MHz P2 and 4 Maxtor 54098H8's, two per channel. OS is FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. When I use vinum with the following config: drive drive0 device

Re: How to stop problems from printf

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
Hello to you am I C coder who to wish write programs we cannot exploit via code such as below. main(int argc, char **argv) { if(argc 1) { printf(gettext("usage: %s filename\n"),argv[0]); exit(0); } printf("normal execution proceeds...\n"); }

Re: How to stop problems from printf

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "John Doh!" writes: : Issue is must be getting format string from "untrusted" place, but want to : limit substitution of %... to the substitution of say in example the : argv[0], but to not do others so that say given "usage: %s filename %p" %p : not interpret

Re: md5 in boot loader

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
Hello, What about md5 in the boot loader. I've included a patch to src/sys/boot/ficl/words.c No doubt with lots of little errors. I added this after concerns while working on PXE booting. I'm looking for a sense of direction... Is using MD5 better than just a clear text

Re: Creating a list of newbus devices.

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
Is it possible from kernel mode to create a list of newbus devices ? And how do I'll get a pointer to the new-bus root (or whatever it's tecnical name is :) extern devclass_t nexus_devclass; nexus = devclass_get_device(nexus_devclass, 0); static void

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Clark Shishido
At 22:24 +0300 2000.09.08, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: read performance and seeks seems OK, but block writes only about 1/9th ! As I read from www.vinumvm.org I should get something like 5MBps block writes. Have I misunderstood something, configured someting improperly, it's because of only

Re: Shared Memory Issues

2000-09-08 Thread void
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:56:10PM +0100, John Toon wrote: However, it seems strange that you're getting non-attached memory segments. Surely it is the job of the kernel to clean up after processes (if they're badly programmed and don't do it themselves)? Perhaps one program is leaking?

Re: makecontext friends ?

2000-09-08 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: are there any plans to implement makecontext() friends functions in FreeBSD? I don't know of any plans myself, but I would appreciate that we support this

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: Thank you for your last reply about the Promise 100 controller, I got it working with that patch. But now, I have Asus P2L97 mobo with 64MB RAM, 266MHz P2 and 4 Maxtor 54098H8's, two per channel. OS is FreeBSD

RE: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Brandon Gale
Note* rawio will overwrite your data, so be careful! Here are tests that I ran using a 4 disk array (10k RPM SCSI disks). I have about 20 datafiles comprising 8 different stripe sizes for 3 different raid configurations (0,5,1+0) if anyone is interested (Greg?). Thanks, brandon