Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Trever anti_spam...@yahoo.com writes: With regard to 8.0 RC23, simply using the src/install.sh script for the src works without the errors and corrupted files. I wonder why we still bother splitting the tarballs... it's not like anyone is going to try installing 8.0 from floppies. DES --

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:47:28 -0500 Jim Wilcoxson pri...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on a new backup program, HashBackup, and believe I have found a memory leak with ACLs in PCBSD/FreeBSD 7.1 and OSX (Leopard). acl_from_text is a function that takes a text string as input, and

how to build libthr except other components of 'world'

2009-11-16 Thread Jiandong Lu
--- 09年11月16日,周一, Jiandong Lu lujiandong1...@yahoo.com.cn 写道: 发件人: Jiandong Lu lujiandong1...@yahoo.com.cn 主题: how to build libthr except other components of 'world' 收件人: freebsd-thre...@freebsd.org 日期: 2009年11月16日,周一,下午6:48 Hi,everyone,     I checkout FreeBSD‘s source codes to my /usr/src    

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:51:56 +0100 Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: Trever anti_spam...@yahoo.com writes: With regard to 8.0 RC23, simply using the src/install.sh script for the src works without the errors and corrupted files. I wonder why we still bother splitting the tarballs...

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk writes: See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies. The mind boggles. If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick. If you can't boot from a USB stick, use PXE.

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: If you really want to install 7.2 from floppies, you will need 76 disks just to get a bootable system. For 8.0, you will need 84. That's for i386, btw. For amd64, the numbers are 83 for 7.2 and 93 for 8.0. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread volker
On 01/-10/63 20:59, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: I've been working on a new backup program, HashBackup, and believe I have found a memory leak with ACLs in PCBSD/FreeBSD 7.1 and OSX (Leopard). acl_from_text is a function that takes a text string as input, and returns a pointer to a malloc'd acl.

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:47 +0100 vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: you may want to have a look at the manpage acl_from_text(3): ...This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling acl_free(3) with the

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
The man page is correct and should not be changed. In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not where the leak occurs. The leak occurs because of a temporary string that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text. Jim On 11/16/09, Gary Jennejohn

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread volker
On 11/16/09 22:21, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: The man page is correct and should not be changed. In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not where the leak occurs. The leak occurs because of a temporary string that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text. Jim On