Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?

2000-04-07 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Alfred Perlstein wrote: Some archs (such as i386) allow the OS to set page protections and io permission bitmaps that effectively can pretect against problems with drivers touching incorrect IO ranges, however... Worse yet: What about hardware buggy devices? This could case the

Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?

2000-04-07 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
"Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" wrote: only one :-) performance :-) context switch is a slow operation. Thanks, emax Excuse me gentleman, who said that ? Take time to visit this site: http://www.qnx.com/iat/download/index.html You'll be introduced to a hard-real time OS (with a very modular

Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?

2000-04-07 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Nick Sayer wrote: Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: Why not starting a microkernel arch? IMHO the microkernel is the emperor's new clothes (so is OOP, but that, I suspect, I won't get quite so much agreement on). Context switching has been mentioned, but in addition to that, the real

Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?

2000-04-06 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Considering the current kernel design approach used by traditional system, what happens if a drive were wrongly coded ? Would the entiry system crash ? -- If you're happy, you're successful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ?

2000-04-06 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Gustavo V G C Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000406 19:12] wrote: Considering the current kernel design approach used by traditional system, what happens if a drive were wrongly coded ? Would the entiry system crash ? please define "wrongly coded".

BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hy folks! I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 1 year and some time ago i decide to give openbsd a try. I have been loving Free! Now, playing with Open is no trouble. Some questions came up: 1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? 2) FreeBSD has proven

Re: BSDs

2000-03-30 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Matthew Dillon wrote: It's still a bad idea to post this sort of question to both mailing lists. Sorry, i did not realized that! Next time, i'll be carefull! -- If you're happy, you're successful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

limiting buffer cache

2000-03-18 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Does anybody here knows how to limit the size of my FS buffer cache ? I have already looked over LINT config file, but it seems not to have any option! I have ever send this message to questions, but nobody there seems to care/know. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks a lot for your

Re: limiting buffer cache

2000-03-18 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
David Greenman wrote: Does anybody here knows how to limit the size of my FS buffer cache ? I have already looked over LINT config file, but it seems not to have any option! I have ever send this message to questions, but nobody there seems to care/know. I would really appreciate your

multithreaded IP Stack

2000-02-06 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hi hackers, Currently, freebsd does lack such a support into its implementation. I would like to give a look into this topic to see what i can do to include support for free. Can anyone here point me some source of information about this topic! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

video board

2000-01-31 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I have a video board which is hanging my FreeBSD BOX (Virge S3 GX/2, diamond stealth 3d 4000) I am considering changing it to a new one, which one do you suggest me? PS: I don't need a expensive one, all i need is a video board in the same level of quality than the current one (Obvious, not

reboots

1999-12-03 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hi! I am sending this message, in order to get a help from you wizards. Just after turn power on, i get into FreeBSD boot manager, it is given me three choices: F1: DOS F2: FreeBSD F3: Linux Then, i select FreeBSD (F2)! Now, after BTX delay time to boot i time ESC, what brings me into the

becoming part of FreeBSD Developer

1999-11-03 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Dear gentleman, i have been using free for the last 12 months! I have never done anything in terms of system development, so i decide it was the time to get more involved with FBSD development. In repect to this regard, i sent a mail to Mr. David Greenman, whose response was: "The first step is

Re: wfd0: i/o error, status=51 ready,opdone,check, error=40

1999-11-02 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
"Chris D. Faulhaber" wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: That is the message i get at the console when i try to write some thing in my IDE ZIP drive! Have anyone already faced such a problem ? Does any one here know how to fix it ? Could you

Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I am really sorry to post here a problem that's not related to hacking, but i have already sent many posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without a solution to my problem. I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux

Re: Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 02-Nov-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux and Win98 (i have 3 OSes in my machine), so i believe there is no hardware problems

file system system calls

1999-10-10 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
May anyone here point me where in the source tree i can see file system API implemented, like open, write, close, etc. Thanks a lot. -- "Security is not a state, but a process." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hay, thaaank you! I really glad to receive your message! It will really shelp. Again, thanks a lot! Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Gustavo V G C Rios (gr...@ddsecurity.com.br) [990910 04:14]: I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious

submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. If, later, i were able to code something to freebsd, and suppose i do, what (or better, how)

submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. If, later, i were able to code something to freebsd, and suppose i do, what (or better, how)

CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Dear gentleman, i am a computer science student, and this semester i had to began my project to get graduated. After looking for some interesting topics on many sources, one rised up: Privacity on Shared Environments. My ideia is to add system facilities to improve privacity for users on shared

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Chris Costello wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: Dear gentleman, One clear example: No user(but only that ones previous allowed to) should be able to see other users process. This facility have to be done at kernel level, (that's what i think). Define

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: After changes made by me: I would be able to see any other proccess which i am not the owner, top would not be (there was a mistaken in the sentece above, it was in lack of "not" ) would indicated, only 8 proccess, for th

CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Dear gentleman, i am a computer science student, and this semester i had to began my project to get graduated. After looking for some interesting topics on many sources, one rised up: Privacity on Shared Environments. My ideia is to add system facilities to improve privacity for users on shared

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Chris Costello wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: Dear gentleman, One clear example: No user(but only that ones previous allowed to) should be able to see other users process. This facility have to be done at kernel level, (that's what i think). Define see

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: After changes made by me: I would be able to see any other proccess which i am not the owner, top would not be (there was a mistaken in the sentece above, it was in lack of not ) would indicated, only 8 proccess, for this current

login problem:

1999-07-03 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
My login.conf classes does not work, i have already looked for into The Complete FBSD, man pages, /usr/src/lib/libutil/* but nothing works the way i wanna. i think that only you hackers can help me. Here goes the classes: shelldef:\ :cputime=10m:\ :filesize=unlimited:\

Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

1999-07-03 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
i am trying to get a login classes for my users, so i decided to edit /etc/login.conf. Among other, i have yma classes this way: shell:\ :maxproc=5:\ :tc=auth-default: Looking for auth-default, i saw the following: ## Authentication methods ## Note that these are disabled by

login problem:

1999-07-03 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
My login.conf classes does not work, i have already looked for into The Complete FBSD, man pages, /usr/src/lib/libutil/* but nothing works the way i wanna. i think that only you hackers can help me. Here goes the classes: shelldef:\ :cputime=10m:\ :filesize=unlimited:\