Re: swapping over nfs might be broken

2003-06-01 Thread Bjoern Fischer
Hello, Everything looks normal except for swapinfo. It looks like nfs swapping is broken? `man swapinfo` says: BUGS Does not understand NFS swap servers. hmm, the man page seems to be out of date. On my diskless client swapinfo works flawlessly: broccoli:~$ swapinfo Device

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Valentin Nechayev wrote: Essential words are understriked. I can't imagine how it can be read as unsupported. Non-native English speaking. Specifically: DESThey are retained because of their widespread use, DESbut their use in new implementations (for

Thinkpad AT installation problem

2003-06-01 Thread soupman
I've been having a problem that is exactly the same as outlined in http://news.gw.com/freebsd.newbies/5472 when attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on my IBM Thinkpad AT clone (486). The same problem occured when I used floppies of different versions including 4.6 and 4.7. I tested the floppies

Re: Proper behaviour for wait()?

2003-06-01 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Paul Herman wrote: Just curious, anyone know what the proper behavior for wait() is when SIGCHLD is ignored? Is it simply undefined? Don't see anything mentioned in the wait(2) manpage one way or tother, and other OSes don't seem to agree much. If you ignore SIGCHLD

Re: Proper behaviour for wait()?

2003-06-01 Thread Paul Herman
On Sat, 31 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: The only way (except for historical reasons) the above standards excerpts would make sense to me, is if setting the SIGCHLD handler to SIG_IGN always makes the system reap child processes, OpenBSD does this, I believe. But I've never

BOOTP_NFSV3

2003-06-01 Thread David Yeske
I have a suggestion to deprecate the BOOTP_NFSV3 option, and I wanted to get some feedback. If NFS_ROOT and BOOTP_NFSV3 are defined, then it is a noop in sys/i386/i386/locore.s? If NFS_ROOT is defined and BOOTP_NFSV3 is undefined then it copies in a nfs_diskless structure in