Re: Java

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
a similar condition and they are being cleansed as a low-priority task by at least one committer. -- Peter Jeremy pgp3JNiVFPB1y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
y not too many people have accidently destroyed the content of a file they still wanted when deleting an unwanted link to the file. IMHO, rm.1 should explicitly state that "rm -fP" on a multi-linked file will destry the file contents as seen via the remaining link(s). This probably belon

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 19:38:49 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >the user is unaware that there are multiple links. I don't think >that just unlinking the file and issuing a warning is a good solution >because it's then virtually impossible to locate the other copy(s) >of the file,

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
e has a second link before she deletes it, when she issues "rm -P", she will lose her link to the file (and her only way of uniquely identifying it) whilst leaving the remaining link to the file in Mallory's control. -- Peter Jeremy pgpN2P2SFT5ro.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Behavior of run-time linker on 6.1-RELEASE

2006-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
The logical place for this is the DBD::Oracle module - I shouldn't need to include the Oracle library into the perl RPATH on the off-chance that I might want to load a .so that needs an Oracle .so -- Peter Jeremy pgp36RuEMrglD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
lternative to the dd or cp suggestions, I'd recommend dump: dump can handle unreadable sectors (though I'm not sure if FreeBSD's dump will tell you which file or inode the sectors belonged to). It's probably your best chance of getting the data off the disk. -- Peter Jeremy pgpv2QBOdZgFy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
ould be fairly easy to write one. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzWBVLHKZT7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Delivering SIGKILL to init

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Sep-19 17:55:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >Prompted by some discussion elsewhere, I've been trying to send >SIGKILL to init. If I ktrace kill(1), I can see "kill(1,9)" which >returns 0 but the signal is never delivered. If I sent (eg) SIGXCPU >then init

Delivering SIGKILL to init

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
ern/kern_* and can't see anywhere that special cases the delivery of SIGKILL to init. Can anyone please explain why SIGKILL doesn't kill init (at least on -stable). -- Peter Jeremy pgpGGJl4gQDvH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sendmail

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
7:00:35 GMT+00:00 2006SMTP response503 5.0.0 Need MAIL before RCPT >Fri Sep 01 17:00:35 GMT+00:00 2006SMTP response503 5.0.0 Need MAIL command I can't reproduce this with sendmail 8.13 (though I'm not sure I'm correctly replicating your environment). I suggest you either UTSL or ask on a sendmail list. -- Peter Jeremy pgp5PXKLKnFmh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sendmail

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
er >and uses a random invalid return address for each alert. Sendmail is >rejecting the messages based on the From field. Have you tried: FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') -- Peter Jeremy pgp9vYyinaGYO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: amd64 questions

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
amd64 is to >> > > >run the Linux build. OOo2.0 should (and generally does) build. The entire OOo port seems very fragile and occasionally breaks for no obvious reason. I don't recall ever seeing the recommendation to use the Linux build, though. If you have problems with building OOo on a reasonably up-to-date -stable or -current amd64 system, with an up-to-date ports tree, I suggest you take it up on freebsd-openoffice. -- Peter Jeremy pgpKnyCJmNFMg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: doadump at pcpu.h:165

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
me watchdog >timeouts. This sounds like flaky hardware. Try checking cooling, PSU, RAM, cabling socketing etc. Run memtest86 or similar and try swapping components. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDkIzeysmng.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Relative paths [was: Path transformation]

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
based on realpath(3) by replacing the getcwd() with the first path and adding enough '../' to the second path to reach a common directory (or root) from the first path. -- Peter Jeremy pgp9uQcLzup2U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: struct dirent question

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
definitions don't nest so this isn't safe. Consider some code that does: #define MAXNAMLEN 1024 ... #include ... charmybuffer[MAXNAMLEN]; -- Peter Jeremy pgp9G71sqx9ME.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New architecture support

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
ficient interest to keep it going - and much of the loss of interest was a result of Compaq killing the Alpha. I suspect that a HP 9000 port would be starting from a much smaller base. -- Peter Jeremy pgpIIZBCpQODq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Req: Help tracking possible kernel memory leak. - possibly filesystem related

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
articular variable is leaking, it might help locate the problem. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvHx8c8CQD7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
you're never going to update a file then making it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will get better performance by making it non-sparse. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQeKoTW1HxK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
er and I/O operations should be much larger than this for optimal efficiency. -- Peter Jeremy pgpamKbTi5BUJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
rage..." :) This is true in the desktop and server market but is not true in the embedded market and only marginally true for laptops. -- Peter Jeremy pgpqSDruA6YGB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: VM question related to faults

2006-07-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ally only an issue for accesses to userland memory, where it is solved by fetch(9) and store(9). If you need to deal with KVM addresses that may be unmapped, then all I can suggest is looking at the implementations of the above functions. -- Peter Jeremy pgprjaY0q3LGm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
t and restart ntpd. You might like to enable some of the ntpd statistics gathering and see if anything anomolous is occurring. -- Peter Jeremy pgppY9q1JHybY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.0/6.1: open ("/dev/lpt0" ...) hangs up

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
to it? Am I the only person still using a >parallel port printer and (at first) a generic kernel? I suspect plip has outlived its usefulness. -- Peter Jeremy pgpC6TooVlPWm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
is designed to sit in the middle of an X connection. I think Wireshark can decode X11. -- Peter Jeremy pgpeoYIvy0spc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
To resurrect a fairly old thread... On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than >> ximerama) and I have problems

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

2006-07-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
quires a system call - which is comparatively expensive. -- Peter Jeremy pgpE8zWwKy0Fz.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
who isn't comfortable with C++, I doubt either are true. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfFCcuCnb0C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Stop further socket() or connect() calls.

2006-07-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
>I was looking for a way to write a small wrapper program >that disables network access and then exec()'s a given >program. For dynamic executables, you could LD_PRELOAD a .so that replaces all the socket-related syscalls. -- Peter Jeremy pgpm3GjTuUwBQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contiguous memory allocation problem

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
n this (though my video capture card grabs about 4MB RAM when it's in use). -- Peter Jeremy pgp0xtUxn80DA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contiguous memory allocation problem

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
atter-gather facilities in the hardware to avoid the need to allocate large contiguous memory chunks. iedowse@ had mostly finished implementing this in mid May. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUwMhO0qV2o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ave lying around and it did not report any syntax errors or unexpected warnings. And, since flex is used several times during a buildworld, any generic problems would show up very quickly. -- Peter Jeremy pgpgHVxdRwirz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
ce through the preprocessor, stripping out the #line directives, compiling it and posting the exact gcc error and source context. It may be a gcc bug, it may be a HLA bug or it could be an interaction between the FreeBSD headers and HLA. -- Peter Jeremy pgpp9mRIaGDPu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
s you explicitly tell it to. > What do I do? Redo from scratch. In the 'FreeBSD Disklabel Editor' window, scroll down to your partitions and either 'D'elete them all and re-create using 'A'uto or toggle the 'N'ewfs flag and set the 'M'ount point. -- Peter Jeremy pgpc3RS1KM5eP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mmap() vs. character special file

2006-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
#x27;d_mmap' entry in their struct cdevsw. -- Peter Jeremy pgpin6CJBTge7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Basic Micro "Atom" CPU Interface

2006-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
robric.com/ [2] http://www.basicmicro.com/ -- Peter Jeremy pgp6dqusb5f0R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Jail-Aware Scheduling

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
ow as the system got loaded. In the case of jailed systems, it could also prevent (or minimize) traffic analysis of the system by a jailed process. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: dump(8) performance

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
aster than the tape and so a buffer helps here). There probably is more scope for enhancing dump throughput. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2006-May-12 13:07:41 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote: >On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 17:17 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> 'page daemon wakeups' counts the number of times that the pagedaemon >> is woken up due to a page shortage. I think I was not correct here. It looks like th

Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
keups is zero). >Kamal R. Prasad suggested that "Belady's anomaly" might occur. If it's >true or possible what could be done about this ? "Belady's anomaly" can only occur if paging really happens. -- Peter Jeremy _

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
heme. Just confusing to a lot of people. > >Software naming has always been a pain ;) Especially when the marketing people get involved... -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Is showing all attributes for RS232 port possible in FreeBSD?

2006-04-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
ports. Look in tty(4), specifically TIOCMSET, TIOCMGET, TIOCMBIS, TIOCMBIC. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-18 15:02:27 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >Peter Jeremy wrote: >>>+padding="" >>>+paddingsize=$(($columns - 15 - $2 - $namesize)) >>>+until [ 0 = ${paddingsize} ]; do >>>+padding=" $padding" >

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
[0;31;40m >rather than setting the attributes to NormalText-Red-on-Black. In fact, I >haven't heard of one for some time. I have a number of genuine DEC VT510 terminals that I could probably give away to anyone who wants to disprove this :-) -- Peter Jeremy __

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
e ${paddingsize} ]; do padding=" $padding" paddingsize=$(($paddingsize - 1)) done -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: weird problems with porupgrade

2006-04-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Apr-15 16:35:15 +, Hannes Hauswedell wrote: >however the same code, run as a subprocess of kdevelop misses the code colored >in red. I don't see any red. Could you post a unidiff or similar please. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
rs over the years. We have several machines (for redundancy) that act as gateways into over 40 private networks. When there were only 4 networks, we used multiple NICs but decided this approach wasn't expandable and we now use VLAN trunks and break out the different networks within the switc

Re: setuid scripts wrapper (RFC, proposal)

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
script first, using fstatfs() and fstat() and passing the script as /dev/fd/N to the interpreter. What I was actually referring to was your use of argv[1], argv[2], argv[3] and argv[4] without checking argc or otherwise validating them. -- Peter Jeremy ___

Re: setuid scripts wrapper (RFC, proposal)

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
vsz] = '='; - No error if number of environment variables too great. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
disklabel table in sector 1 of the slice. The bit that threw me was that boot2 is 15 sectors long and ends in sector 15. I gather it has a copy of boot1 embedded in it. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
ces. > >Why not just assume allowable users are in the "operator" group. Isn't >this what that group was designed for? That group was designed for people who ran backups - it's hard-coded in dump(8). >If not operator, then maybe one configurable group, defaulti

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
ute sector 0 of the disk. boot1 is located in sector 0 of the bootable slice boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: 2007 Zoneinfo

2006-04-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
;m in Texas" and FreeBSD knows what timezone to select, or is there a choice of "I'm in CST using the old rules" vs "I'm in CST using the new rules"). Since FreeBSD basically imports the timezone files from NIH, this comes down t

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
ot;. X11 protocol tracing (eg xmon) and client ktracing might be a start to see where the keyboard events are disappearing. -- Peter Jeremy pgpZaTj3fx9je.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
accept focus and then switch back to the window I originally wanted). This started after an X.org upgrade but I'm not sure which one. >The fact that new firefox windows accept input suggests that it's >somewhere in X. What X server? -- Peter Jeremy pgp61ENFPAOE4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: repeatedly opening the same .so(s) is slow?

2006-03-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
bltdl and libguile-ltdl, gnucash startup has dropped from 15 minutes to 10 seconds. Thanks for the pointer. The correct fix would be to patch the configure script so it recognizes FreeBSD. I'll file a PR this evening (if no-one has fixed it by then). --

Re: repeatedly opening the same .so(s) is slow?

2006-03-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
: checking whether deplibs are loaded by dlopen... unknown Do you have a fix? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: repeatedly opening the same .so(s) is slow?

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
ms - Guppi includes gcc extensions (I was using Forte), one of the bits of gnome didn't include gettext correctly (so it wouldn't link) and something (I don't remember what) assumes that glade is installed but doesn't check for it in the configure stage. -- Peter Jeremy __

Re: repeatedly opening the same .so(s) is slow?

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
fortunately, I don't have access to any Linux systems) and/or some other guile applications. >If there is a more appropriate list, please let me know. -ports may be better. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Sun DTrace on FreeBSD

2006-03-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
About six months ago, there was a lot of press publicity given to a port of Sun's DTrace code to FreeBSD. Does anyone know what (if anything) is happening to this? Google doesn't turn up anything more recent and I don't recall reading anything on the mailing lists. -

Re: FreeBSD 4.11 P13 Crash

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
exists at interrupt level and so will only trigger when a packet arrives - even if the system is otherwise idle. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: world's toolchain & CPUTYPE

2006-02-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
iles and links against the installed include files and libraries on the host system. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Naive implementation of strverscmp(3)

2006-02-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
== p2 && p1 != 0 && p1 != 0); + } while (p1 == p2 && p1 != 0); For the first point, consider strverscmp("jan25", "janx25"); -- Peter Jeremy pgpNufHyYuuur.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
s it is invoked with, it would be nicer if the dependency tree was generated dynamically, rather than pulled out of the latest INDEX file. If the INDEX dependencies are used to generate a parallel build tree then it's still important that the actual build process has interlocks to pre

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
other sub-makes. Unless the top-level makefile has full knowledge of all the dependencies (which is not practical), it is quite likely that the sub-makes will collide. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
k directory and hold a file lock (flock/lockf) on it whilst a make is in progress. Any parallel attempt to make that port would block. If the above was implemented, an enhancement would then be to process the port's dependency list in parallel, rather than serially. This woul

Re: Ricoh PCI to SD device?

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
m/docs/apps/catalog/resources/appnoteabstract.jhtml?abstractName=scpu022 contains some information as does the data manual for the PCI17x21. I'm not sure if there is sufficient information to write a driver. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freeb

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
'retries' variables/fields. I suspect you could increase the number of retries if you wanted to patch the driver. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Atomic operations across multiple processors

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
from people familiar with non-iA32 architectures. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
hort-term CPU load. cp_time[] is probably a better choice for you - it uses statclock to report the CPU utilisation (every statclock interval, one element of the array is incremented) so you can (fairly) immediately detect if you have overloaded the CPU (for some definition of &q

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - amount of total visible memory is decreasing in time

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
_array and checks the number of pages on each page queue with the number reported for that queue, as well as reporting the number of unmanaged pages compared to the buffer space and wired pages. This would at least provide a pointer to where to look next. -- Peter Jeremy __

Re: using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
unnable" (see ). Note that you cannot do floating point arithmetic in the kernel so the load averages are stored as fixed point numbers. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-h

Re: using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
avg. See sysctl(3) for details. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Implementations of sqrtl and logl

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
sting it against a 64-bit test library adequate? And what is the accuracy of your test library? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] New system call: abort2()

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
break; + } Taking the above into account, I believe the code should be: + if (uap->args == NULL) + break; + error = copyin(uap->args, uargs, uap->nargs * sizeof (void *)); + if (error != 0) +

Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] New system call: abort2()

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
in -arch. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Standard C-macro scripting

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
;Disconnected" , 0x0C )\ >/**/ > >Isn't the state-machine above easy to edit and understand ? It looks the same as my definitions file (modulo a backslash on each line and not having it in a separate file). >What is wrong about that?

Re: ipfw forwarding

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
stination address remains unmodified, so packets forwarded to another system will usually be rejected by that system unless there is a matching rule on that system to capture them. For packets forwarded locally, the local address -- Peter Jeremy __

Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays

2005-11-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
IX shell. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sharing the same VM address space between Kernel and UserSpace

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
owards the GB region) or this is part of a library that is supposed to be linked into arbitrary applications then things may be more difficult. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: poor fdc(4) performance

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
uential blocks, one at a time, so you're forced to wait a complete revolution (plus a bit) for each block you read. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscrib

Re: allocating 14KB memory per packet compression/decompression results in vm_fault

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
t writing outside the bounds of one of the memory blocks you're allocating? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
's unlikely to affect I/O performance (though it may increase the number of thermal re-calibrations) but it will definitely shorten the drive life. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
>According to smartctl, the drive runs at 56C during the copying. Its >idle temperature seems to be 54C. I'd double-check that (eg with a finger). If the drive really is running at 56°C, it won't last very long. -- Peter Jeremy ___ fre

Re: nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
ping through code, it's nice to have the current line and surrounding context automatically displayed (without clogging up your gdb session with an extra 10-20 lines of output for each step). It's also nice to able to scroll back through your en

Re: Bonsai-style interface (cvs change history) for FreeBSD CVS?

2005-10-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
above comment suggests it would be unusably slow. > I was going to have a look at doing this locally and trying >to hook it into CVSup It might be easier to hook it into a local CVS repository and the cvs-all mailing list. -- Peter Jeremy ___

Re: mount permissions problems

2005-10-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
rver only exports ro. >Showmount -e on FreeBSD shows the right network (I was going to post it, >but I chickened out, it's got too much stuff I don't want publicized, I >have static IPs). You can always s/your.real.ip/some.dummy.ip/g -- Peter Jeremy ___

Re: struct timeval: why is tv_sec long?

2005-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
4. Since the Alpha is now a dead architecture and no longer a tier-1 FreeBSD platform, it's unlikely anyone will expend the effort to change them. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: sysctl variable creation

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ption to sysctl in 4.x, 5.x or 7.x. Note that SYSCTL_STRUCT defines an opaque type that won't be displayed by default. You may want "sysctl -x vfs.ufs" -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: "Smart" Hubs

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
If it is, you are going to be very careful about specifying and configuring your sniffer box to make sure it can actually handle the traffic load. Overall, I also recommend using dual NICs to create a passive tap. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
iated. AFAIK, there's work underway on this and suggest you try freebsd-fs. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adding new option to ktrace

2005-09-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
to build a circular buffer and store the I/O requests in the buffer. When the system crashes, you can look at the last entries in the buffer. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ha

Re: sed not working

2005-09-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
egexps probably couldn't be committed but we don't want 3000 PR's about one problem either. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sed not working

2005-09-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
rom the broken system to a working system? Is there anything unusual about the problematic system? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Determining where mbufs are in use

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
It's an NFS client but not server. netstat showed only a couple of dozen TCP sockets, though there are a lot of Unix domain sockets (for X) - none had any data queued. Is there any easy way to work out where all the mbufs have gone? -- Peter Jeremy __

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
e laptop is accelerating. It might be easier to think of the accelerometer measuring the force exerted by a fixed mass sitting on your laptop. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Locating obsolete ports distfiles

2005-08-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
en looking at the atimes is one approach but this doesn't handle: - ports that I don't currently have installed but might need - ports installed on systems that mount /usr/ports readonly -- Peter Jeremy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Finding an illegal instruction in gnucash/guile

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2005-Aug-06 21:49:35 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I recently upgraded gnucash and dependencies and am now getting SIGILL >during startup. This originally occurred on 5.3 but I'm getting >exactly the same thing running on a recent -CURRENT with a freshly >built (from sc

Re: Finding an illegal instruction in gnucash/guile

2005-08-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
copyout of a sigframe to the user stack fails. Poking further, it appears that one of the threads is blowing its stack. Manually unwinding the stack suggests that gdb was right and there's very heavy recursion in scm_deval(). Since the thread stack sizes we

Re: Finding an illegal instruction in gnucash/guile

2005-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2005-Aug-07 11:07:16 +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: >On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:49:36PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >... >> scratch with different CPUTYPE and/or CFLAGS? (I'm currently using >> CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and CFLAGS=-O -g). > >Hmmz, CFLAGS=

Finding an illegal instruction in gnucash/guile

2005-08-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
ly using CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and CFLAGS=-O -g). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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