pge.c, its a power thing!

2003-11-18 Thread John
Sooo.. is there any chance someone could take a look at this http://www.seanadams.com/pge/pge.c and tell me what needs to be done to port this, or maybe just give me some pointers so i can spend the next year working on this? :) I think the big problem (well for me) will be converting this from

Conflict between sys/sysproto.h stdio.h ... ?

2003-11-18 Thread lucy loo
I am writing a kernel loadable module to reimplement some system calls. I have included sys/sysproto.h, sys/systm.h, etc. -- very standard header files for kld implmentation. I also want to do file i/o in this module, therefore I need to include stdio.h. But it obviously conflicts with those

Re: CVSUP error...

2003-11-18 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:18:13PM -0600, Brett L. Brown wrote: I'm looking for help on with a CVSUP problem. I'm trying to run CVSUP with a supfile, I'm typing: cvsup ports-supfile and receiving the following: Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? I'm

Re: Conflict between sys/sysproto.h stdio.h ... ?

2003-11-18 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:39:37AM -0800, lucy loo wrote: I am writing a kernel loadable module to reimplement some system calls. I have included sys/sysproto.h, sys/systm.h, etc. -- very standard header files for kld implmentation. I also want to do file i/o in this module, therefore I need

Re: pge.c, its a power thing!

2003-11-18 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:45:08AM -0600, John wrote: Sooo.. is there any chance someone could take a look at this http://www.seanadams.com/pge/pge.c and tell me what needs to be done to port this, or maybe just give me some pointers so i can spend the next year working on this? :) I think

Re: CVSUP error...

2003-11-18 Thread Amit
Brett L. Brown wrote: Hey! I'm looking for help on with a CVSUP problem. I'm trying to run CVSUP with a supfile, I'm typing: cvsup ports-supfile and receiving the following: Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? I'm using the host cvsup7.FreeBSD.org

RE: CVSUP error...

2003-11-18 Thread John Polstra
On 18-Nov-2003 Brett L. Brown wrote: I'm looking for help on with a CVSUP problem. I'm trying to run CVSUP with a supfile, I'm typing: cvsup ports-supfile and receiving the following: Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? This problem is discussed in the

Re: console redirection to serial in Freebsd 5.1

2003-11-18 Thread Sebastian Yepes F. [ESN]
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:00:33 -0500 Loh John Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1 from a CD (ISO). Now I'm trying to turn on console redirection in my image, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I read the article on turning on console redirection at

memory address space conversion

2003-11-18 Thread Sean McNeil
Hello all, I ask a while ago a question and received great response. I'm hoping to repeat the experience :) I have a driver that I cannot change the ioctl API to. Unfortunately, it has a peculiar need to return a user-space address based on the physical address. Here is the scenario: user

ICH5 + SATA + Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ?

2003-11-18 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I'm in the process of selecting new computers, and I'm tempted by an ASUS P4P800, with Seagate SATA disks. After googling a bit, it seems that the ICH5 is indeed supported in SATA mode from the 4.9-Release (perhaps also 5.1 ?) (at least the chip is correctly identified by

mtime and directories...

2003-11-18 Thread lists
Changing a file, of course, results in a change to its modification time. Am I correct in determining that the mtime of the enclosing directory is also updated? The reason I'm asking this is because I need to be able to determine if any file has changed within a directory from a shell script,

secure file flag?

2003-11-18 Thread Rayson Ho
I am wondering if it is useful to have a secure file flag?? The secure file flag will be set for files that contain sensitive data. Then the OS will take special care when operating on those secure files. e.g. when deleting a secure file, the OS will overwrite the file with random data. One

Re: mtime and directories...

2003-11-18 Thread ari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this stuff: Changing a file, of course, results in a change to its modification time. Am I correct in determining that the mtime of the enclosing directory is also updated? The mtime of a directory is updated when the directory file changes. Directory files contain

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-18 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:31:32PM -0800, Rayson Ho wrote: I am wondering if it is useful to have a secure file flag?? ... e.g. when deleting a secure file, the OS will overwrite the file with random data. I've got patches somewhere for zeroing out memory mappings in this way, but they are

Re: ICH5 + SATA + Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dan Strick
I'm in the process of selecting new computers, and I'm tempted by an ASUS P4P800, with Seagate SATA disks. ... is there some actual, positive, experience in using the above combination, and with which stability ? The ASUS P4P800 uses the Intel 865PE chipset. I have a Gigabyte 8KNXP

console redirection to serial in Freebsd 5.1

2003-11-18 Thread Loh John Wu
So I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1 from a CD (ISO). Now I'm trying to turn on console redirection in my image, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I read the article on turning on console redirection at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu