Re: Assembly interrupts and Developers handbook

2003-08-04 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:50:41PM -0700, pat bey wrote: First I would like to know where I can buy a copy of the FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. Nice to have a handbook that I can hold in my hand. Have you tried http://www.bsdmall.org ? -- Igor

Using CVS diff to find out what has changed, including new files

2003-08-04 Thread Rolf Grossmann
Hi, first of all, I'd like to apologise. This may be a little off topic for this list, but as I figured here are probably the people who have the most experience with CVS and that may have the same problem, I thought you might be able to help me. I'm using cvsup for a while now to get a copy of

Re: Tuning HZ for semi-realtime applications

2003-08-04 Thread Harti Brandt
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Sean Hamilton wrote: SHGreetings, SH SHI have an application which has some task it must execute at some interval SH(approximately 1000 times per second.) This application calls select(2) in a SHloop, and uses its timeout parameter to try to keep the timing consistent. SH SHAt

Re: Assembly interrupts and Developers handbook

2003-08-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:50:41PM -0700, pat bey wrote: First I would like to know where I can buy a copy of the FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. Nice to have a handbook that I can hold in my hand. Secondly, What can I find a list of other interrupts within FreeBSD like the int 80h. Or is

Re: libpcap

2003-08-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:13:43PM -0700, Andrew Konstantinov wrote: 1) Is there any way how I can specify in the filter description that it should match only incoming packets on some interface? inbound/outbound keywords work only for 'slip' (according to tcpdump man page). I could do that

Installation and the 1024 cylinder boot problem

2003-08-04 Thread Dimitar . Peikov
Recently I had to install 5.1-RELEASE at 60GB, and had a lot of troubles to start booting correctly. I hope that /stand/sysinstall have to handle 1024 cylinder booting. Otherwise I have to run 'boot0cfg' manually to fix this issue. MuTk0 ___ [EMAIL

Re: Assembly interrupts and Developers handbook

2003-08-04 Thread David Schultz
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003, pat bey wrote: Secondly, What can I find a list of other interrupts within FreeBSD like the int 80h. Or is this the only interrupt. Like example interrupt for video stuff, disk access etc. .etc On x86, all system calls are made through int 80h with %eax set to the

Re: Using CVS diff to find out what has changed, including newfiles

2003-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Rolf Grossmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using cvsup for a while now to get a copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository and I have a (slightly modified) version of -STABLE checked out from there. Now there are certain areas where I'd like to see what changed before doing a cvs update. Currently

RE: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Jul-2003 Ryan Sommers wrote: When making a system call to the kernel why is it necessary to push the syscall value onto the stack when you don't call another function? Example: access.the.bsd.kernel: int 80h ret func: mov eax, 4; Write call access.the.bsd.kernel

Re: Using CVS diff to find out what has changed, including new files

2003-08-04 Thread Rolf Grossmann
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Rolf Grossmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using cvsup for a while now to get a copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository and I have a (slightly modified) version of -STABLE checked out from there. Now there are certain areas where I'd like to see what changed before