Re: glibc

Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: Left as an exercise for the reader: Figure out how the two differ and which one is "better". :-) I'd rather hurt myself severely. Of course. That's a prerequisite for becoming a committer. :-) John --- Jo

Re: glibc

-- binutils and gdb). It might be better just to install libiberty from one of those places. Left as an exercise for the reader: Figure out how the two differ and which one is better. :-) John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc

Re: glibc

Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: Left as an exercise for the reader: Figure out how the two differ and which one is better. :-) I'd rather hurt myself severely. Of course. That's a prerequisite for becoming a committer. :-) John --- John Polstra

Re: Why 'dd' does not seek over 'char' devs (specifically raw disk

on character disk devices. I'm reasonably certain there exists some ioctl (perhaps related to reading disk labels) which could be used to figure out whether a character device was a disk or not. A simple fix like that would make dd a lot more useful for the case Luigi brought up. John -- John

Re: a BSD identd

;Warm-Fuzzy" .fakeid Ick. Please, no more abuse of symbolic links! Once (malloc) was enough. Data is held in files, not in filenames. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Wash

Re: Why 'dd' does not seek over 'char' devs (specifically raw disk

Luigi brought up. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.-- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: a BSD identd

: ln -s Warm-Fuzzy .fakeid Ick. Please, no more abuse of symbolic links! Once (malloc) was enough. Data is held in files, not in filenames. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc

Re: a BSD identd

Doug wrote: John Polstra wrote: Are you sure? If you simply don't run an identd, the queries will get an instant connection refused error. That's even faster than sending back a bogus response. Many daemons that request ident, and almost all IRC daemons that I'm aware of don't

Re: a BSD identd

that sends back a reset: add reset tcp from any to any auth setup in via etha16 John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up

Re: a BSD identd

Doug wrote: John Polstra wrote: Are you sure? If you simply don't run an identd, the queries will get an instant connection refused error. That's even faster than sending back a bogus response. Many daemons that request ident, and almost all IRC daemons that I'm aware of don't

Re: poll() vs select()

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. Yes! Yes! Yes! (I agree.) John -- John Polstra

Re: poll() vs select()

thread. But to take advantage of it, the application has to have something useful it wants to do (and can do) in the meantime. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA

Re: mmap question

In article 000101bec73c$e20e3660$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Kelly Yancey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, in case it hasn't been notice already (I'm running -stable from May 18th), the mmap(2) manpage has a typo: it has "#include sys/mman.h" So what's the typo, exactly? John -- Jo

Re: poll() vs select()

In article 199907050103.saa51...@bubba.whistle.com, Archie Cobbs arc...@whistle.com wrote: A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. Yes! Yes! Yes! (I agree.) John -- John Polstra

Re: poll() vs select()

and put the name lookups into a separate thread. But to take advantage of it, the application has to have something useful it wants to do (and can do) in the meantime. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc

Re: Dynamic linking

In article 3780aeb2.20616...@agama.com, Andrew Iltchenko and...@agama.com wrote: Hi everyone! Is there a way of making dlopen return an error from the shared object's _init function? No. The _init function by definition is void _init(void), and so it cannot return a value. John -- John

Re: mmap question

In article 000101bec73c$e20e3660$291c4...@kbyanc.alcnet.com, Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com wrote: Also, in case it hasn't been notice already (I'm running -stable from May 18th), the mmap(2) manpage has a typo: it has #include sys/mman.h So what's the typo, exactly? John -- John

Re: poll() vs select()

Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: In article pine.bsf.4.10.9907042155090.66085-100...@janus.syracuse.net, The application itself has to get involved if it wants to do async name lookups, or async anything else, for that matter. Suppose you do have an async

Re: Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

so. John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.-- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

rt the correct class in the class field. (See passwd(5) for details.) If you want to create a new class, just edit it into your login.conf file and then run cap_mkdb as instructed in the comment at the top of that file. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pictures from USENIX

I put a handful of pictures from this year's USENIX conference at http://www.freebsd.org/~jdp/usenix1999/. John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA No matter how cynical I

Re: Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

in the class field. (See passwd(5) for details.) If you want to create a new class, just edit it into your login.conf file and then run cap_mkdb as instructed in the comment at the top of that file. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D

Re: dlopen returns non NULL

of FreeBSD? For a.out, it's a known bug and there is already an open PR on it. I wouldn't be surprised if the bug existed in ELF too. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

it). This is not desirable. I would say it is not _acceptable_. The code shouldn't go into our source tree until the known buffer overflow problems have been fixed. It's just stupid to add buffer overflow problems to a program that is always run as root. John -- John Polstra

Re: dlopen returns non NULL

. :-) The fix may be as simple as calling unref_object_dag() from the failure cases there, but it will need careful checking. Some additional changes may be needed in load_needed_objects() near the comment that says XXX - cleanup. :-) Thanks, John --- John Polstra

Re: m3socks and cvsup

address errors occasionally. John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: m3socks and cvsup

. There are some problems with m3socks that I just found out about recently. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V

Re: Partitioning a freebsd partition on the fly

partition * restore the data from your backup John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe

Re: where is variable edata defined ?

gdt. But edata and etext are provided automatically by the linker (ld). John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James

Re: PAM: Undefined symbols at runtime

is: Why do I need -export-dynamic, when evidently nobody else does? I don't know. Maybe you have something unusual in your /etc/make.conf file? John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle

Re: PAM: Undefined symbols at runtime

on /usr/bin/login as well as your libpam and pam modules. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V. DeLong

Re: more on the pcmcia saga.

Path 1.68.2.3 +3 -4 src/sys/pccard/pccard.c John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V. DeLong

Re: dlopen failure

to be linked in, and cc -shared will do that for you automatically. John -- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief. -- James V

Re: dlopen failure

Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 20 May 1999, John Polstra wrote: In article 373c3f3f.a99db...@cablenet.net, Damian Hamill dam...@cablenet.net wrote: I have a program that is dumping core. --- Here's the gdb output; Program terminated

Re: dlopen failure

0x804a141 in VdbInit (user=0x804bfb1 nobody, passwd=0x0) at Vdb.c:329 #9 0x8049316 in main () #10 0x8048be5 in _start () I don't know what's going on here, but this stack trace can't be right. dlopen doesn't call find_symdef, and find_symdef doesn't call map_object. John -- John Polstra

Re: gas pseudo-ops

, though. John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."-- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 10:40 AM -0800 11/18/99, John Polstra wrote: I don't dispute that point, but it is worth mentioning that POSIX specifically guarantees that st_dev and st_ino "taken together uniquely identify the file within the system." So it is OK for applicatio

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