Re: Bug in qmail port's Makefile, where to report?

2013-06-18 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 19.06.2013 00:38, schrieb Joe Schaefer: I looked on freshports for a way to file a bug report but didn't see anything. Freshports is a second-hand source. The first-hand source is the MAINTAINER line in the Makefile :-) I have a one-character patch to the Makefile that needs

Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (KR-style) C macro preprocessor) into base?

2013-06-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.06.2013 00:11, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin: Hi, I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. Holland from NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional (KR-style) C macro preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it so that imake can work properly without

Re: tape (sa0) on sparc64 ?

2013-05-17 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.05.2013 02:56, schrieb Zaphod Beeblebrox: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.orgwrote: On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 19:56:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2013, at 21:51, Zaphod

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.09.2012 21:52, schrieb Lorenzo Cogotti: Even the userbase/time spent developing ratio matters. What also matters is the interest that a system shows in something, I think it's obvious that FreeBSD can't get much attention as a desktop system if no effort is put into it. It is not a bad

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Matthias Andree
, and most features do not rely on particular kernel support -- and where they do, abstracting that, or providing FreeBSD support, is far more useful than trying to make someone follow a desktop that died a decade ago. Popularity matters in open source. Particularly with desktops. -- Matthias

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Matthias Andree
and desktops. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: dtrace in FreeBSD 7.2

2011-09-16 Thread Matthias Andree
extended support, hence it is no longer supported. Consider upgrading. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: [PATCH] __FreeBSD_cc_version in sys/cdefs.h

2011-07-05 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 05.07.2011 12:11, schrieb Dimitry Andric: On 2011-07-04 18:30, Robert Millan wrote: This patch fixes a (harmless) warning whensys/cdefs.h is parsed by upstream version of GCC. -#if __FreeBSD_cc_version = 31 defined(__GNUC__) !defined(__INTEL_COMPILER) +#if

Re: [PATCH] Remove -nostdinc in aicasm

2011-07-02 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 02.07.2011 17:25, schrieb Benjamin Kaduk: On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Robert Millan wrote: The userland aicasm utility in sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile is being built with -nostdinc -I/usr/include options. Unfortunately this breaks building aicasm on systems using the upstream version of GCC,

Re: IPv4 socket bind using IPv6 socket on openjdk6 breaks udp send

2011-06-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 25.06.2011 13:28, schrieb Steven Hartland: - Original Message - From: Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de I'm adding back in -java as based on you comments it may well be something in the jdk passing invalid values down to the kernel syscall. The socket bind works fine

Re: IPv4 socket bind using IPv6 socket on openjdk6 breaks udp send

2011-06-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Just so we have pointers in the public archives: alternatives to truss are strace (in ports) and ktrace/kdump; and to obtain socket statistics, try lsof (from ports, too) possibly with -i and optionally -n and/or -P option. ___

Re: IPv4 socket bind using IPv6 socket on openjdk6 breaks udp send

2011-06-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Removing -java@ list because the VM is an application on top of the kernel's network stack, and the issue isn't Java-specific. Am 24.06.2011 23:11, schrieb Steven Hartland: We're trying to get our machines IPv6 enabled but in doing so this seems to break java apps using openjdk6 for UDP sends.

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 29.03.2011 09:53, schrieb per...@pluto.rain.com: Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote: Am 28.03.2011 19:57, schrieb dieter...@engineer.com: I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result. In that case

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.03.2011 19:57, schrieb dieter...@engineer.com: And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink, I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it could impose some unintended

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-23 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 23.03.2011 10:13, schrieb Alexey Shuvaev: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39:44AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: Hi, I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-23 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 23.03.2011 16:06, schrieb Alexey Shuvaev: Yes, nvi-devel is not developed any more, but I was saying that nvi in base is even older than nvi-devel, and it is worth looking at it. At least for the iconv support. As for the BDB, maybe strip it just out, if possible? I don't believe it's

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Andree
for a change. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Andree
does, quite obviously, not have ISO standards. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 16.02.2011 20:02, schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:41:02PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: But POSIX.1-2008 is the same as the Single Unix Specification v4 or IEEE Std 1003.1-2008. Minor correction, it is SUS v3 Issue 7. No it isn't. See http://www.unix.org/version4

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 16.02.2011 21:13, schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 08:26:04PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 16.02.2011 20:02, schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:41:02PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: But POSIX.1-2008 is the same as the Single Unix Specification v4

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-14 Thread Matthias Andree
becomes standard yes/no on, they are usually free. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-13 Thread Matthias Andree
the actual strings pointed to (with the usual constraints of not assuming they can be extended, for instance) - and I don't see the problem in that. Does that help? If not, please explain you confusion in a bit more detail. Best Matthias -- Matthias Andree

Re: man 3 getopt char * const argv[] - is const wrong ?

2011-02-13 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 13.02.2011 18:15, schrieb Julian H. Stacey: Hi, Thanks to all respondents, I'll re-read comments in a bit, I went searching for reference: Matthias wrote: the prototype is in line with the Single Unix Specification v4 aka IEEE Std. 1003.1-2008 (sorry no URL, I have checked my local copy,

Re: [PATCH] Add HISTORY to strlen(3) and strstr(3) man pages

2010-12-04 Thread Matthias Andree
for strstr and strlen. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Coverity warning: strncpy(cpi-dev_name, cam_sim_name(sim), DEV_IDLEN);

2010-05-02 Thread Matthias Andree
'; However, rather than relying on implicit assumptions and inefficiencies, I'd still prefer memset + strlcpy. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.04.2010 14:49, schrieb Diane Bruce: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:24PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed) You would have to write a script which went

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote on 2010-03-11: Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de writes: sendmail's configuration was never a black art unless you needed features beyond what the m4 macro set supported. The m4 macro set is a fairly recent development. If more than a decade is a fairly

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-10 Thread Matthias Andree
deployed a few postfix + Dovecot + amavisd-new setups; these systems don't need webmail. I used to use sqwebmail on a few sites. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: 2 bytes allocated problems

2010-02-25 Thread Matthias Andree
. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

seeking and seekability (was: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch)

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Andree
block devices that are unbuffered to character special device nodes, so the obvious way of calling [f]stat() and then checking S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) will return FALSE even for devices that can seek. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2010-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
logs, I see that it goes back until at least 2009-07-05... I suspect (without any proof) that this is only for src, because that is converted from a live SVN repository to CVS for the sake of CVSup distribution, while all other repositories are still CVS natively. -- Matthias Andree

Re: Suggestion: rename killall to fkill, but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 22.12.2009 11:33, schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav: man pkill And that one is also provided on Solaris. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

header file bug sys/types.h sys/file.h vs. _XOPEN_SOURCE standard

2009-11-19 Thread Matthias Andree
headers break if an application defines one of the standard feature test macros? Or could sys/file.h be changed (for instance by replacing u_int by unsigned int) to tolerate POSIX and XSI feature test macros? TIA. Cheers -- Matthias Andree mandree freebsd org

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-11 Thread Matthias Andree
into the kernel you know). -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-11 Thread Matthias Andree
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Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-07-01 Thread Matthias Andree
) ; Safest (avoiding null derefence) would instead be: ptr = malloc(size ? size : 1); BTW: // is not a valid C89 comment, but a GCC-ism. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Alternative compiler toolchain ?

2006-07-01 Thread Matthias Andree
) to run under Linux, but haven't pursued the issue beyond that point. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-29 Thread Matthias Andree
() in any case for successful allocation.. shouldn't they? The value returned from malloc(0) must not be dereferenced whatever it was. It was 0x800, which doesn't count as failure. -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Johannes Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 06:09:37PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: The value returned from malloc(0) must not be dereferenced whatever it was. It was 0x800, which doesn't count as failure. But this would be appropriate for catching the error

Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-29 Thread Matthias Andree
behaviour, I think, so it may well make explode your near-by atom power plant. It had better not... -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

PATCH: fix bogus unset abort in /bin/sh (been pending for TWO YEARS)

2004-09-21 Thread Matthias Andree
@@ } } - return (1); + return (0); } -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers