Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Paul Saab wrote: Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Paul Saab wrote: Hi, My problem is that the NIC I'm trying to boot from is an on-board fxp on a Motorola p-III M/B (I assume there is no specific "PXE rom", as PXE may be included in the BIOS) will your "intel

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-17 Thread Paul Saab
Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78 PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume this is better) No.. 0.99 is the orginal PXE v1. PXE v2 (build 78) is what you have and is highly buggy.

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Paul Saab wrote: Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78 PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume this is better) No.. 0.99 is the orginal PXE v1. PXE v2 (build 78) is what you

Re: sysctl_kern_proc doesn't handle the case when no procs match given criteria

2001-03-17 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:23:51PM -0800, Dima Dorfman wrote: Obviously, this isn't the desired mode of failure. Attached is a patch that will make sysctl_kern_proc return ESRCH if it didn't find any processes. AFAIK, without the patch, the only way to detect this condition (no processes

c++ exceptions with pthreads

2001-03-17 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Hi, I just read your reply in the hackers mailing list regarding c++ exceptions. Does that mean that now (or from release 4.3 on) the base system g++ is bugfixed regarding SIGSEGVs with c++ exceptions? What causes the bug in exception handling? Why does the packaged g++ work? Thanks in

Re: device driver dev. book

2001-03-17 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Just to get the facts clear: Do you ever intend to write a book? A "Developers Handbook", which will also cover device driver and kernel module programming is in work under the leadership of Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Once it

Re: device driver dev. book

2001-03-17 Thread Wes Peters
Bill Paul wrote: Some body just told me that williams Paul from Columbia University (Bill Paul @ Freebsd.org) has written that kind of book. But I can't get his exact email address at FreeBSD.org to ask him the reference. GR. Look, I have not now nor have I *ever* written

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:53:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). Actually, I want socketpair(2). pipe(2) was what I used before, and

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:53:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). Actually, I want

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Mar-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: Actually, I want socketpair(2). pipe(2) was what I used before, and that's the reason I had a read-only file descriptor - the portalfs architecture allows for only one fd to be returned, and pipe(2) provides a one-way pipe. I dup2'd stdout and stderr

Can't install FreeBSD 4.1

2001-03-17 Thread petro
Hi! I try to install FreeBSD 4.1 when the proces of copying begin, (near 20% of /bin copied) I receive such error panic: general protection fault syncing disks .. 99.. 99 99 99 automatic reboot in 15 seconds, press any key to abort. Thank you very much for any help. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Can't install FreeBSD 4.1

2001-03-17 Thread Hasan Azam Diwan
Sir: It would be helpful to include the output of the boot sequence, a description of your hardware. Followups to -hackers please. I try to install FreeBSD 4.1 when the proces of copying begin, (near 20% of /bin copied) I receive such error panic: general protection fault syncing

Re: c++ exceptions with pthreads

2001-03-17 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:55:34AM +0100, Titus von Boxberg wrote: Hi, I just read your reply in the hackers mailing list regarding c++ exceptions. Does that mean that now (or from release 4.3 on) the base system g++ is bugfixed regarding SIGSEGVs with c++ exceptions? Bug, which found

Re: GCC Upgrade?

2001-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Farooq Mela [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010316 23:21] wrote: Howdy, GCC 2.95.3 was just released. I did notice that there are some bug fixes in the optimizer, and some various other fixes etc. Considering the recent discussion about incorrect code generation due to -O2 and above, are there any

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that single 4GB of address space is divided up into kernel data structures, which are in the address space of the process but subject to various levels of MMU-provided memory protection, and the process' own "user data." I believe the break is

Re: GCC Upgrade?

2001-03-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: GCC 2.95.3 was just released. I did notice that there are some bug fixes ... in the optimizer, and some various other fixes etc. Considering the recent discussion about incorrect code generation due to -O2 and above, I