Re: A TrustedBSD voluntary sandbox policy.

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrea Campi wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:20:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering developing a policy/module for TrustedBSD loosely based on the systrace concept - A process loads a policy and then executes another program in a sandbox with fine

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-16 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On fre, nov 02, 2007 at 01:34:51 +0300, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is larger

Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Fred Bertram
Hi, I'm a cs student from Australia. Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice by doing whatever though if anybody understands where

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Karl Sjodahl - dunceor
On Nov 16, 2007 10:40 AM, Fred Bertram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a cs student from Australia. Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: I agree regarding the duplication with ps(1) -- however, I'm generally of the opinion that ps(1) is overburdened as tools go, and that the goals are actually somehwat different--procstat(1) intentionally doesn't have the ability to generate a list of

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Kip Macy
On Nov 16, 2007 1:11 AM, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007 10:40 AM, Fred Bertram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a cs student from Australia. Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Fred Bertram [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:40:23 +0800): Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice by

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. George Bush? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:47:33 -0800): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. George Bush? I don't know. It's output from fortune, so you can look up the history. Bye, Alexander. --

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
Ulf Lilleengen wrote: I tried the patch, but I end up with the partition table being incorrectly read (probably) on the drives connected to my TX4 card. Normally, there's one partition on the drive, but when I apply the patch, the drive provider (ad6) is all that shows up in /dev. When I

rpcgen issues on ports/security/cfs

2007-11-16 Thread Edwin Groothuis
Hello, I needed to get the security/cfs port running on a FreeBSD 7 machine, but it didn't compile at all. The issue was that rpcgen created code like: extern void * admproc_null_2(void *, CLIENT *); extern void * admproc_null_2_svc(void *, struct svc_req *); #defineADMPROC_ATTACH

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. George Bush? I mow my lawn. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Fred Bertram wrote: Hi, I'm a cs student from Australia. Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice by doing whatever though if anybody

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-16 Thread Skip Ford
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: I agree regarding the duplication with ps(1) -- however, I'm generally of the opinion that ps(1) is overburdened as tools go, and that the goals are actually somehwat different--procstat(1) intentionally doesn't have the ability to

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-16 Thread Skip Ford
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: I agree regarding the duplication with ps(1) -- however, I'm generally of the opinion that ps(1) is overburdened as tools go, and that the goals are actually somehwat different--procstat(1) intentionally doesn't have the ability to

Re: Patch for ping6 -o

2007-11-16 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, 12:01-, Dima Dorfman wrote: The ping(8) utility has an -o switch that tells it to exit after receiving the first reply. This is useful, but ping6(8) doesn't have it. Simple patch attached. Comments/reviews/whatnots? I'll commit to HEAD in a few days if I don't

Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Yuri
I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of driver. Yuri

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? Most of the tasks have been spoken for but very little news so far on progess - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Remko Lodder
Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Kip Macy
On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done?

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kip Macy wrote: On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread icantthinkofone
Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Yuri
Can't there be something added such as an easy to search for FAQ so this topic doesn't come up 2-7 times per month? I know people should use a search engine and search for the information first, but people seem extremely lazy and always ask current@, hackers@, and questions@,

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Yuri
Can't there be something added such as an easy to search for FAQ so this topic doesn't come up 2-7 times per month? I know people should use a search engine and search for the information first, but people seem extremely lazy and always ask current@, hackers@, and questions@, amongst